84 - Flying Machines
SciShow Tangents
English - June 23, 2020 16:00 - 28.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsSocial Sciences Science Education schultz comedy sam schultz education ceri riley science hank green stefan chin scishow tangents Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Humanity’s quest for flight has been, all things considered, extremely successful! Sure, we aren’t all zipping around in jetpacks yet… but honestly I don’t think we’re ready for jetpacks.
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Donut-shaped aircraft
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-saucer-patents-alexander-weygers
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2377835A/en
Williams X-Jet
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4447024
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/14/technology2
More pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_X-Jet#/media/File:Williams_X-Jet_-_side_view.jpg
Flying magic carpet
https://books.google.com/books?id=biYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&
https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/3/2504531/jetpack-history-future-passed
[Fact Off]
First aerial photograph
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/23/books-felix-nadar-france-photography-flight
https://papa.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=808138&module_id=158950
Drone organ transport
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uomm-uom042619.php
https://www.jems.com/2020/01/29/new-partnership-in-drone-delivery-system-for-human-organs/
https://weare.techohio.ohio.gov/2019/10/30/vyrtx-pioneers-air-corridor-for-drone-delivery-of-organs/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Alberto Santos-Dumont
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alberto-Santos-Dumont
https://www.cnet.com/news/were-the-wright-brothers-really-first-not-in-brazil/
https://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/10/brazil.santosdumont.reut/
[Butt One More Thing]
Airplane stinky poop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/31908620/ba-flight-forced-to-land-early-because-of-smelly-poo
Humanity’s quest for flight has been, all things considered, extremely successful! Sure, we aren’t all zipping around in jetpacks yet… but honestly I don’t think we’re ready for jetpacks.
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out SciSHowTangnets.org!