SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 32: Flying Machines
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.
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[Truth or Fail]
Donut-shaped aircraft
https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=2014319274A1&KC=A1&FT=D&ND=3&date=20141030&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP
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.geriwalton.com/felix-nadars-giant-balloon-le-geant/#:~:text=Felix%20Nadar's%20giant%20balloon%2C%20or,known%20by%20the%20pseudonym%20Nadar.&text=Caricature%20of%20Nadar%20as%20a%20ballooning%20photographer.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/23/books-felix-nadar-france-photography-flight
http://www.artinsociety.com/the-adventures-of-nadar-photography-ballooning-invention--the-impressionists.html
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/
http://www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/History_of_the_Airplane/Who_Was_First/Santos_Dumont/Santos_Dumont.htm
[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