Tom A. Swift's Electric Rifle ...that just blew my mind...

@henryfielding6402

9 жыл бұрын

Woah

@dabrazil2416

9 жыл бұрын

He said that in the video dipshits

@Blaklighte

9 жыл бұрын

Darley Moreno That's what I'm saying, ass-for-brains.

@bobthebuilder6521

9 жыл бұрын

Ravenwell Hey hey, stop the name calling you asshats

@diceman199

9 жыл бұрын

Ravenlay Jules Verne beat Mr Swift too it though.....oddly enough in the same book they referenced for submarines. Except it wasn't a stun gun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_ball

Asimov often mentioned household computer terminals where a person could ask any question, and an answer would be generated from a centralized database containing nearly all human knowledge. This was many decades before the internet.

@mike-bp2tq

5 жыл бұрын

sounds like alexa lol

@tomf3150

5 жыл бұрын

A Logic© named Joe...

@fabrisseterbrugghe8567

5 жыл бұрын

Or Gordon Dickson's Final Encyclopedia.

@allangibson8494

5 жыл бұрын

On Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love.

@chrisclifford7080

4 жыл бұрын

Now thats Wikipedia

Robert Heinlein is also credited with inventing the waterbed, which he described in _Stranger in a Strange Land._

@GoranXII

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, they first show up in _Beyond This Horizon_ (another of Heinlein's works) in 1942. The idea is a bit older though, with a variation showing up in the 1830s, developed by Scottish physician Neil Arnott.

@thicklydelicious

4 жыл бұрын

@@GoranXII though heinlein's description was so well detailed that all patents were refused on waterbeds. This led to their great popularity, since anyone with the means to produce them could do so.

@GoranXII

4 жыл бұрын

@@thicklydelicious From what I understand, that was one reason he did it.

@carolramsey8457

3 жыл бұрын

And the 3D printer which e described i Assignment in Eternity part 1 or 2 can't remember which. He described it as a machine in which you put in sausage and got out dog. Like Clarke and Asimov he described a lot of things which later came true.

They forgot something else from Star Trek, something so common we hardly take notice of it as being strange and new anymore. Doors that sense the approach of someone and open by themselves.

@dangould5055

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah but our doors just open. The cool sci fi ones go WHOOSH in like a spiraling extremely inefficient pattern. We need those.

@TheNoiseySpectator

9 жыл бұрын

Dan Gould Well, I suspect the whoosh sound is an audio-effect to get the crew's attention, like the buzzing the door makes at Radio Shack, or the "ding" when an elevator arrives on your floor. Starships are busy places, & people can get caught up in something else while waiting for the lift to arrive. The whoosh could be to alert people the lift doors are opening. I remember one episode where Picard wasn't watching, and the doors opened but there was no turbo lift there ! He nearly walked into the lift shaft, but managed to jump at the last moment and grabbed the lift cables. Then, the doors closed behind him and he was left hanging there. . . D : Or . . . maybe that was The Bob Newhart show, I don't remember for sure.

@dangould5055

9 жыл бұрын

TheNoiseySpectator Star Treck, Bob Newhart, they are basically the same thing.

@Anacronian

9 жыл бұрын

Actually, the "Doors that sense the approach of someone and open by themselves" were invented over 20 years before Star Trek aired.

@TheNoiseySpectator

9 жыл бұрын

Anacronian Ah, the good old "photoelectric effect". But, didn't such doors come into service in the 1970's, about the same time Star Trek became popular? Star Trek has literally been on TV for all of my life, so I don't remember what things were like before it first aired.

Fahrenheit 451 was pretty good at predicting technology like earbuds and flatscreen TVs, although I have no idea if it actually inspired any of them

@unknowuser1843

5 жыл бұрын

Not only where they ear buds But they where also wireless

@BertGrink

3 жыл бұрын

Not only did the novel have flatscreens, but they covered all four walls, giving the impression of a 3-dimensional space in which the soap operas played out.

my galaxy s3 also holds a 30 minute charge.

@NachoTPAO

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah mine too, because the battery wasn't changed since 2012... (I use it as an emergency phone when my S9 isnt available lol)

@Reynevan100

5 жыл бұрын

I still use s3neo as my every day phone. It does everything just fine, no need to change ;)

@siralfredo

5 жыл бұрын

My old s5 lasted 30 minutes while playing Pokémon go

@MyRegardsToTheDodo

4 жыл бұрын

@@siralfredo My S4 lasted about 1.5 hours. With a new battery. And randomly decided to shut off at 20 to 40% battery life.

How could you possibly omit Clarke's geostationary communications satellite? Its called the "Clarke Orbit" for a reason!

@binkey3374

10 жыл бұрын

Probably because Clarke actually proposed it in a letter and then expanded on it in a scientific paper. He didn't introduce it to the world as part of a sci-fi story.

@Eric14492

10 жыл бұрын

binkey That's true

@magillanz

5 жыл бұрын

@@binkey3374 but should have been mentioned when guy mention him

@corneliuscorcoran9900

5 жыл бұрын

@@binkey3374 I did not know that. When we build one, he will also have inspired the space elevator.

@Merennulli

4 жыл бұрын

@@corneliuscorcoran9900 Clarke used it in his novel in 1979, but the idea was over 80 years old by then. Like the Clarke Orbit, Clarke was actively proposing it for real world use, not just dreaming it up in novels.

I read all of the Tom Swift series in the 60's. I discovered the books in 2nd grade at the school library, they would most likely be banned today. I have also read everything by Heinlein, Clark, and Asimov among others. Larry Niven's Ring World comes to mind. My mother taught me and my brother the value of a good book at a very young age, I thank her to this day. Long live the Nerds!

"nerds are the most dangerous people on Earth" - Bill Burr

@neilisbored2177

6 жыл бұрын

I mean, multi bottle rocket, strongest earthbound item.

@MrWombatty

5 жыл бұрын

No, it's the men in suits!

@lucasward9506

4 жыл бұрын

*cough* P.A Luty

People should be inspired and supported to create Science fiction movies, we need more science fiction movies out there. Science fiction movies are like the playground of imagination for scientist and kids which ushers in new era's of technology inspired by science fiction. Many technology we have today as the video states are a direct inspiration from Sci Fi, for example inspirations game from Star Trek, Star Wars and many older science fiction movies/shows. It's the perfect way to get young kids who still have a very creative mind to become empowered and inspired to create things that are considered improbable. So, to all the Science fiction books,movies and show writers alive or dead, thank you for inspiring generations of scientist and engineers, because you have sure inspired me to become an engineer and help push for the future. :)

personally, i am more impressed by the predictions made by Asimov like robotics and satellites.... but those listed were kinda cool too... i remember those monster bricks... as well as the original car phones

@johnbenton4488

9 жыл бұрын

TruckCaptain Stumpy And was it not Arthur C Clark who invented the geo-stationary satellite, without which we would all be (literally) lost. Oh and the space elevator - they're still working on that one!

@truckcaptainstumpy1978

9 жыл бұрын

John Benton ?? i didn't say Clarke did... i think the video might have... but they were referring likely to this : lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/

@truckcaptainstumpy1978

9 жыл бұрын

there is also a slovene reference (specifically, Herman Potočnik in 1928 ) on WIKI but i cannot find a reference link or supporting citations for the reference The wiki link is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_satellite#History

What I took away from this: Just in general leave elephants alone.

@anarchyantz1564

4 жыл бұрын

And dont tase your friends, even for fun.

@rayrowley4013

3 жыл бұрын

But what about the Red Pygmies?

In his book 2001, Clarke describes Floyd reading the news on a computer screen, and headlines where updated regularly. Sounds familiar ?

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" Was a *fantastic* book.

@pixelfox9666

5 жыл бұрын

So was its sequel, "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls".

@Richard_Jones

5 жыл бұрын

@@pixelfox9666 I spent many of my teenage years reading Heinlein's books and I never knew that The Cat Who Walks Through Walls was TMIAHM's sequel. Always stuff to learn.

@pixelfox9666

5 жыл бұрын

@@Richard_Jones It's not obvious, because it takes place decades after TMIAHM and there's only one character in common (Hazel), but they do reference events in the first book a few times.

@BertGrink

5 жыл бұрын

In fact, a _lot_ of Heinleins stories were interconnected

@fairwinds610

5 жыл бұрын

@@BertGrink Right. He even generated a time-lime with most of his stories placed in their proper sequence. The time-line covers thousands of years, and Lazarus Long lives through it all. I have also read every one of Heinlein's books.

Another thing by Robert A. Heinlein.......power armor.

@Hellheart

7 жыл бұрын

kittylactose damn right. Starship Troopers. precursor to Warhammer 40K Space Marines.

@melissatrible4214

6 жыл бұрын

Also, water beds.

I was always really impressed by the technology presented in Fahrenheit 451. They had wall televisions, interactive tv programs, even earphones (called "shells" in the novel). The only thing I really don't want to see become reality from that book are those robot dogs. No thank you, Ray Bradbury.

@killerbee2562

10 жыл бұрын

If I were you I wouldn't look up military robotics research. That robotic mule is rather forbidding if you have Fahrenheit 451 in mind.

@BertGrink

3 жыл бұрын

If I were you, I´d write a stern letter of disapproval to Boston Dynamics.

I want a universal translator. 42

@oliverturner1649

9 жыл бұрын

dasdew2 Then shut up and stick this fish in your ear. ʸᵃʸ

@sandraellens1826

8 жыл бұрын

Theres the google translate app

@taxavoider9889

8 жыл бұрын

And a mechanical depressed robot!

@oliverturner1649

8 жыл бұрын

Shadowthief Gaming With a terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side?

@legodrakie

8 жыл бұрын

+dasdew2 And I want an infinite improbability drive for my car.

Given the two options, name my first born son either "Waldo" or "Master-Slave Manipulator Mk8" i know which i'd pick.. Waldo is a stupid name.

@fionafiona1146

5 жыл бұрын

Tcesare and Spohnronia would appreciate play dates(, I might have children by those names in 5+ years or so)

@shelleysmith1779

5 жыл бұрын

roflmao

@MyRegardsToTheDodo

4 жыл бұрын

Considering how Elon Musk named his son, both choices don't sound that bad.

@alfredsutton7233

3 жыл бұрын

I like Waldo precisely because it’s “stupid”.

@llabronco

3 жыл бұрын

OP should probably just name his kids Zim and Gir lol

R. A. Heinlin also conceived the Water Bed. I think that was in Stranger in a Strange Land. But I was never a SciFi Nerd, it was the '70s. Grok? Aunt B

@HyperionaSilverleaf

5 жыл бұрын

I think water beds were around since the 60s.

@kleinjahr

5 жыл бұрын

Ayup. Briefly mentioned as a therapeutic aid for Michael when he first came to Earth. Apparently when water beds were being introduced, commercially, manufacturers sent him one and he hated it.

@alfredsutton7233

3 жыл бұрын

I grok it. To me, Stranger in a Strange Land, was as good as drugs.

Scott Westerfeld actually talked about hoverboards in the Uglies trilogy. They are able to well, hover, because of a magnetic grid built under the city, and when the main characters escaped, they were still able to use the boards by going over rivers which had metal deposits. The boards were also charged using solar power cells. The boards even had fans on the underside which kept the board aloft. And the person who was hoverboarding had "crash bracelets", which were these metal bracelets that were attracted to the board, and they kept the person from falling to the ground if they ever lost balance. Someone has to make this happen--I want to be able to see and use a hoverboard!

count no of times he raises his glasses lol.

Tazer... In 1971, I had mounted the guts of a photo-flash to a rubber glove. Pinky finger was +270 volts, thumb was ground. 440 microfarad capacitor gave it some bite... First time I tested it, the electrodes welded together! Good thing, too!

@bdf2718

7 жыл бұрын

Proctologist, are you?

I was reading some old Heinlein books (published in the 1930's-1940's) and one thing that actually really stunned me was a reference to the main character's asbestos-lined space suit. Sure, some science fiction writers have thought up great things, but others they got very, very wrong.

This has to be my favourite channel on youtube, our whole family watches it. Keep up the good work. :^)

We have less than 2 years to get Hoverboards to the market! They were all over the place by 2015, according to the movie! Let's get going!

@davidkelly4210

10 жыл бұрын

They actually have them, till working out some bugs.

@PIA1441

10 жыл бұрын

David Kelly who?

@PIA1441

10 жыл бұрын

David Kelly theres a video of scishow that explains the "hoverboard"

@PIA1441

10 жыл бұрын

***** i know...thats what the video says...

@ryanownsu10

10 жыл бұрын

ihatepia its called the water hoverboard

What about transparent aluminum? Another Star Trek imagining that came true ; )

Jules Verne also directly inspired the pioneering lighter-than-air dirigibles created and piloted by Alberto Santos-Dumont, who went on to build and fly one of the first (okay, THE first) self-propelled heavier-than-air fixed wing aircraft in the world. He took off under his own power when the Wright Brothers were still using a catapult to launch.

@duanesamuelson2256

5 жыл бұрын

Except that the bases for dirigibles were hot air balloons that predated jules...for that matter leonardo davinci had drawings for powered hot air flight as I recall. Not downplaying writers...Cyrano de Bergerac wrote a story about about going to the moon in the early 1600's. Writers do push ideas, expand the world...just few ideas are completely new. The "best" writers push the boundaries but have enough "reality" that the story can still be related to.

You guys are so awesome! I love scishow!

handheld is the past, neuro-implants are the future

@ChanYungJack

9 жыл бұрын

agreed.

@XxZigiixX

7 жыл бұрын

DeathBringer9000 Ikr, where's our brain chips. xD lol

@joshuahunt3032

7 жыл бұрын

DeathBringer9000 And hopefully augmented reality glasses are the present! Who needs a surgically implanted exocortex when you have glasses that allow you to control your phone without even touching it?

@glennalderton1313

5 жыл бұрын

Read Sycamore by Craig A Falconer.

@jewking331

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshuahunt3032 I dont know, Google tried that with Google glasses and they were a failure.

Larry Niven said he saw his writing (and all good science fiction) as a way of building "playgrounds for the mind." I think the best science fiction not only entertains us with fantastical sounding gadgets. It also makes us think, makes us wonder, makes us say, "Hey, can that be built? How would that work? We should invent this!" As for what science fiction invention I'd like to see become real....honestly? It's a tossup for me between "grav generator" and the "uterine replicator." Artificial gravity would be handy - the kind of compact "gravity generator" that could fit into vehicles of any size. These devices are in Star Wars (repulsorlift tech), but also in the Sten series where such generators are used in vessels large and small. (and if you haven't read Sten you should, it's very fun.) Uterine replicators on the other hand are a major technology in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels. The idea is simple enough, a machine that can exactly imitate the environs of a natural womb. Not just human wombs either, the replicators are shown being used for livestock as well in a couple cases. Such machines open a TON of possibilities, and Bujold explores several of them in her books; but she also leaves open a lot of questions about their use and their impact on human culture. In real-world use I think it would be incredibly controversial for a lot of folks, but the options it would open - to women, to parents, to the human race - would be incredible and, potentially, incredibly liberating.

@HyperionaSilverleaf

5 жыл бұрын

Artificial wombs are used in breeding sharks.

Another great episode!

The H.L. Hunley was never commissioned as a CSS ship, thus no CSS prefix, it is and was always just called "H.L. Hunley" after the inventor.

I'd like to see hover boards too. Back To the Future II reference. :)

@xxbeatuupzz

9 жыл бұрын

They exist now! Just search Hendo Hoverboard on KZread to see

@RogerHoyt

9 жыл бұрын

xxbeatuupzz I've seen some videos of progress being made. Very soon.

@Time4tacos02

9 жыл бұрын

But what sucks is that the hover board has to be on a metallic sort surface.

@gregwiens9146

8 жыл бұрын

+Roger Hoyt CBC News from May 2015: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montrealer-sets-world-record-for-farthest-flight-by-hoverboard-1.3085052

Don't they /sort of/ have tazer guns in 20,000 leagues under the sea ?

@deezynar

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes they do!

@robertofontiglia4148

10 жыл бұрын

So Jules Vernes again, huh ?

@deezynar

10 жыл бұрын

Roberto Fontiglia Indeed, Monsieur Verne, once more!

@unipeace101

10 жыл бұрын

And he strikes again with the whole going to the moon and stuff...

@tomf3150

5 жыл бұрын

Pneumatic rifle shooting glass condensators.

this was a great episode!

I want a replicator, like the ones from Star Trek. Imagine never having to wait for the pizza guy...

The jokes on you! My cell phone was on a charger!

@seanoconnell3559

9 жыл бұрын

Mine was charging to! Lol

@kayrose6670

9 жыл бұрын

mines dead and i cant find my charger so ha

@Jason-im3pz

4 жыл бұрын

@@kayrose6670 did ya find it haha

Next teleportation and invisibility cloak, both are real world prototypes. The invisibility is actually much near with two different approaches, metamaterials and electromagnetic fields.

"Give me that saw" said Tom offhandedly.

@vilstef6988

4 жыл бұрын

Tom Swifty!

Wireless two way communication was first tried by Nikola Tesla in the mid 1890s. Tesla worked on developing radio controlled boats back in the same period.

Im the book pretties there are hover board like things that are "hovered" by magnetic fields in the ground, which is possible

@DiamontSeven

9 жыл бұрын

Very possible, but sadly very expensive.

@Jonquil_Studios

9 жыл бұрын

As an American, I'm actually pretty psyched about the notion of bringing MagLev technology to the States for inter-state travel. MagLev trains already exist in Japan and use the same technology (magnet propulsion and metal infrastructure for nearly-frictionless travel and thus high speeds), although unlike the Uglies/Pretties series, they cannot be used by one-person vehicles, only large trains.

@Calliopa_22

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, I'm not the only person in the world who has read that book.

Hank, 3 decades before the Argonaut was created, the Sub Marine Explorer (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub_Marine_Explorer) was already in use as a commercial submarine with water filled ballast chambers. It was capable of independent navigation unencumbered by connection to the surface & it was replete with a diving chamber for pearl divers to exit & return with their harvest. All this was designed & built by Julius H. Kroehl before Jules Verne published 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'. While I do not doubt that Simon Lake was inspired by Verne's work & it is probably safe to assume that neither he nor Verne had never heard of the Sub Marine Explorer but, all the same, the Argonaut was not the first to accomplish some of the things described in the video. I still love the video as well as all things scientific (both factual & fictional) but I just couldn't help but share the story of the Sub Marine Explorer.

This was edited really well.

Hank, you are AWESOME! I Love SciShow!

Why can't you be my science teacher? I want you to be my science teacher. Science class would be 100000x more amazing if you were my science teacher.

Where's my sonic screw driver then?

@alfonsoRz722

10 жыл бұрын

FUCK OFF

@Mariia.Cascales

10 жыл бұрын

what?

@Mariia.Cascales

10 жыл бұрын

I AM genuinely confused tho

@slickusa

10 жыл бұрын

MariaMcCookie don't be confused, just look at him. you really think he gets your Dr. Who reference?

@alfonsoRz722

10 жыл бұрын

i got the reference, i just found it to be extremely retarded

Robert Heinlein invented stealth technology in "Between Planets," before Petr Ufimtsev started working on his calculations :) It's a brief passage, describing how a vehicle would reflect radar based off faceted structure.

i have recently seen a couple of episodes from Star Trek TOS and I couldn't help but think nokia when I saw those simple phones

You totally missed Arthur C. Clarke's Geosynchronous Communication Satellites.

@briansammond7801

3 жыл бұрын

Clarke publicized the idea of Geosynchronous Communication Satellites in a scientific paper entitled "Extra-Terrestrial Relays - Can Rocket Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?", published in "Wireless World" magazine, not in a science fiction story. Therefore, it does not qualify.

Why we don`t have gloves that allows you to touch virtual objects?

@javierlim4873

8 жыл бұрын

Because then people could put em' on your clothes and boom,your a real life mime.

@summgai3889

8 жыл бұрын

we do they're not very useful vr fuckmachines are useful tho

@RealMrSoloDolo

8 жыл бұрын

power glove

@KagoK

8 жыл бұрын

Yes

@crackedemerald4930

8 жыл бұрын

one word: expensive

I love the line. "from varying levels of intensity, from tickle, to kill"

Actually, Robert A Heinlein mentioned the cell phone(he called it a pouch phone) in the 1951 novel "Between Planets". And Star Trek influenced the second generation of cell phones(flip phones) AND gave us the Tablet computer(PADD).

@vilstef6988

4 жыл бұрын

He also had a wireless phone in the YA novel, Space Cadet.

Someone recently flew a hoverboard across the English channel.

Science is 75% thinking 25% making. Usually thinking of something than making it happen is easier than just winging it.

@Revolvable

10 жыл бұрын

More like 75% Thinking, 20% Making, and 5% pizza.

@Bladeofwar94

10 жыл бұрын

Lots and lots of pizza.

@BertGrink

3 жыл бұрын

Thomas Edison used to say that Invention was 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration.

Also in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", Adm. Kirk was able to lower the Reliant's shields by remote control and hit them with phasers. We can run a lot of devices today by remote control, TVs, appliances, drones, toys, even other computers. Then again Remote Control was invented by Nikolai Tesla in 1898.

Nice vid very enjoyed it

We need transpoters now. I hate driving to work.

@nubbsy6

10 жыл бұрын

bike there

@MrRoboskippy

10 жыл бұрын

Dude! Its 38 miles and half the year its freezing snow. Beaming to work would be a lot cooler.

@nubbsy6

10 жыл бұрын

ah see I didn't know that... beaming myself around town would be pretty cool

@MrRoboskippy

10 жыл бұрын

The best part, I get to make a$$ jokes about my ride.

@branster707

10 жыл бұрын

If warp drives are actually possible and invented they could probably be implemented into teleporters, maybe... There are people currently working on making a miniature version to see if its possible, while an equation for how they would work has already been made. So u can keep ur hopes up XD. However they would need the use of negetive energy for the expansion of space-time, which negetive energy is currently only theoretical. BUT I BELIEVEEEEEEEEE.

The Trojan Bulletproof Suit was originally inspired by the Halo video game series. In Halo, some special soldiers were given "Spartan" suits that increased height, stamina, strength, and were even equipped with electromagnetic force field shielding. So they were, in essence, "bulletproof". The creator of the Trojan suit set out to create a real life version of this suit, with being bulletproof and knife proof in all. Not only that, they look B.A. just like the Master Chief. AND they are similar. Spartan, Trojan. Sparta was a Roman city, whose warriors were thought to be invincible and the Trojans were a Roman army who took down an entire city with only a few hundred soldiers inside a giant wooden horse. Two B.A. kinds of people, same awesome suit. And the Trojan suits may not have EM shields, but they only cost $2k, not bad for a suit that is bulletproof and knife proof.

@darkslayer366

9 жыл бұрын

um.. i think you mean Greek.

@TheTriforceCrusader

9 жыл бұрын

darkslayer366 Whoops, yeah, that's what I meant. I was thinking of something else at the time I wrote this... Yeah, sorry.

@darkslayer366

9 жыл бұрын

It's cool.

@nicholaswright9605

9 жыл бұрын

TheTriforceCrusader also the trojans were the ones who were defeated like that they were badass because any conventional siege failed

@TheTriforceCrusader

9 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Wright Yeah. But I think it's just really funny because the suit from Halo, the Spartan suit, was the original inspiration for the Trojan one in real life. Ya know, Sparta, Troy? Spartans and Trojans, both in Greek and Roman times? I don't know, seems kinda funny like a play on words to me.

5:22 Heinlein also described _the waterbed_ in Stranger in a Strange Land~ he envisioned it in a hospital setting to aid in keeping long term patients from getting bedsores.

Robert A. Heinlein is also the inventor of the waterbed. The first waterbed ever made (by the Share Water Bed Co.), was presented to him for having dreamed it up.

I can't wait for my time machine.

@Time4tacos02

9 жыл бұрын

Want to get together and make one?

@gunguy100

9 жыл бұрын

+Cheb “MageDesigns” Azame I'll get mine yesterday and I made it tomorrow.

@gunguy100

9 жыл бұрын

+Cheb “MageDesigns” Azame I'll get mine yesterday and I made it tomorrow.

@SubtleSnek

8 жыл бұрын

Just be careful not to create a paradox if you travel through the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, but if you do, be sure to call the Doctor.

So what about the enterprise from Star Trek if not my dreams are crushed

@MrMega1423

6 жыл бұрын

You mean that ship NASA is building that tries bending space-time to effectively teleport at 10x the speed of light? That's my favourite one.

The power of the Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is very similar to how Nuclear Subs operate too. Any wonder the USA's first Nuclear Submarine was named Nautilus. And the description of the rocket required to launch men to the moon was pretty close too!

The first mention of a Cell phone in Sci-fi that I know of (one that works just like a modern pre-smart phone) was in Heinlein's Starship Troopers written in the late 50s

jules verne used a electric bullet so he technically thought of bullets,submarines,spaceships,news casts,solar sails,sky writing, video conferencing, and a splash down space ship

Yeah seriously. Hover boards. We need them.

awesome vid

I stumbled upon this clip that is, now, 6 years old. The advancements in just these past few years is remarkable. Rockets that return to Earth and autonomously land on a tail of flame just to name one.

..."I, Robot author Isaac Asimov"?!?!?! Seriously? you pick that as his highlith? LOL

@Oddman1980

9 жыл бұрын

ComandanteJ Indeed. I read his work as a child for years, before I ever knew he wrote any science fiction. His essays on various subjects were awesome.

@mihaiandrei12

8 жыл бұрын

+ComandanteJ Well, I think that he believed "I, Robot" would be more well known than other of Asimov's works because of the movie, so even non sci-fi readers would find out they know what he is talking about

@mihaiandrei12

8 жыл бұрын

+Oddman1980 Well... maybe. Although I do really think Asimov was more well known as a writer for his science fiction novels like his foundation series... I may be wrong though

@ComandanteJ

8 жыл бұрын

mihaiandrei12 Yeah, of course, you're right. It's a shame that his work is more known for that very "so-so" movie... I mean, Will Smith is cool and all that, but the movie was highly unimpressive. I wish they did a TV series of Foundation, it wouldn't need to be about ALL of it (because that's impossible), not even be based in any particular book, just be set in that wonderful, rich and complex universe Asimov created.

@donblack1571

8 жыл бұрын

I robot is also an episode from the outer limits television show

When do we get a TARDIS

@carriedfox

10 жыл бұрын

tro dat plus fazerd

@carriedfox

10 жыл бұрын

phaser

@davidkelly4210

10 жыл бұрын

Carrie Fox We have phasers.

@fairwinds610

5 жыл бұрын

Be a Time Lord from Gallifrey and steal one from the TARDIS garage.

Great connections!

Oh, and sonic screwdrivers! Definitely time for those!

Da Vinci invented the submarine.

@robvdburgt

10 жыл бұрын

and the helicopter, and the plane and the tank, and porbebly some more stuff

@GIboy1990

10 жыл бұрын

to invent don't you have to create a workable rendition?

@mksabourinable

10 жыл бұрын

he didn't invent it, he was just one of the first to come up with the idea and drew up a possible model that he never constructed, as with most of his "inventions". Some have later proven to work by people constructing them later on, but a wooden submarine was not one of them, as Hank mentioned in this video.

@Andytlp

10 жыл бұрын

GIboy1990 Everyone stole his ideas and made working renditions... There's plenty of stuff he made that didnt survive to this day.

@MrJotunar

10 жыл бұрын

The word you're looking for is "posit" or "postulate".

and yet it was only recently that scientists realized that it was possible for life to exist on another planet without requiring water or oxygen. they had to find a microorganism that can survive that way to consider it even remotely possible, while science fiction has had life forms like that for as long as they've had extraterrestrial beings...

@connieconstantino4806

9 жыл бұрын

I am k

@neilisbored2177

6 жыл бұрын

i am another letter of the alphabet pronounced without vibration

@notapplicable8231

6 жыл бұрын

Well... yeah? There’s nothing wrong with that you know right? All of the inventions listed here started as an idea in a book- and an idea is what makes inventions normally. Life however isn’t started by ideas it simply is. You won’t suddenly think “Oh I bet life can survive without water and oxygen!” And have it happen. You need proof mate. So scientists only recently found proof that it was possible- don’t hate mate

@shibolinemress8913

5 жыл бұрын

And to them, we're just ugly bags of mostly water.

That was beautiful.

3 days just watching this videos.. his voice is starting to drill in my skull

"dont go tasering your friends for fun" looking at you, michael reeves

The first submarine as we know them was made in 1888 by Isaac Peral, in Spain, tough it was rejected by conservatives. It even had 284 nautic miles of autonomy and performed two succesfull tests.

Worth a mention is Herman Potočnik Noordung. His sole book has inspired Kubrick to write 2001: a space odyssey. In 1928 he published his book in which he described how astronauts would have to eat food in tubes because he already speculated that there is no gravity in space. He proposed that people are going to live in orbiting space stations and how special conditions in space could be used for scientific experiments. All the things stand true today. Noordung died young and was never aknowledged for his work yet his book was more than 50 years ahead of it's time. It was written less as science fiction and more like an actual book on space theory.

that first civil war submarine was sunk because of a lucky shot at the one tiny window on the sub. this was on History channel or something and as a whole, pretty interesting subject for history. The captain of the sub once survived a bullet shot because the bullet nailed a golden coin is his pocket. When Historians found the sub and dug through its remains, they did end up finding the golden coin with a bullent ding in it. Pretty cool stuff.

Nice touch with the Edison reference. I'm sure some people miss that..

OMG HANK!!! The hover board has been my dream invention for as long as I can remember. Not by me of course. I just want one.

Probably one of the best things about living in this day and age is the number of awesome inventions being thought up by scientists and engineers that are reminiscent of science fiction. My personal favorite is brain-computer interfaces. The future really IS now people!!!! :D

been tazed and I watch scishow :D

Star Trek, you are amazing to inspire one's mind of phones...

"Who did he call?" 2:52 Hahahaha!

please do more of these! the MRI creator said he was inspired by the tricorder on Star Trek, and communication satellites are attributed to Clarke, as well as the idea for the space elevator. in Childhood's End, he describes a fax machine - that was 1938, i think. there are so many - please do more of them!!

Those early Tom Swift novels are actually a lot of fun!

Ah, so it was! Wasn't exactly a pocket radio, but still. I had been thinking of the SCR-300, but they made many more of these than those.

Saw the headline, and made my own list to compare: Communications satellites (Clarke), cellphones (Star Trek), waldoes and waterbeds (Heinlein). Didn't know the submarine story, and am embarrassed I didn't think of Tasers. ;)

"Don't go tasing your friends for fun!" Michael Reeves: THAT WON'T STOP ME BECAUSE I CAN'T READ

the Tom Swift books were actually very cool, remember a few of the stories dealt with rare earth minerals and one in particular that had him building a containment tank for a visiting alien made of pure energy.

the first time I've read the word "Terabyte" it was in Clarke's "3001: Final odissey"

@thicklydelicious

4 жыл бұрын

'3001" was published in 1997. Even though terabytes weren't commercially available at the time they weren't fictional.

Wayne Green was probably the most influential in the development of the cell phone and also much of ham radio technology.

This is my favorite episode. Eeee.

I'm not a nerd but i love you're channel cause learning IS cool, one love

I remember when I was a kid and watched TMNT n April kept having that pink handheld phone with a video chat screen. Can't believe we have it today.

I am a direct descendant of James Buchanan Eads, an engineer and salvage expert in the 19th century who designed the Eads bridge in St Louis, Missouri. His work on diving bells to salvage wrecks in the Mississippi both allowed him to reinstate his fortunes more than once and also to contribute to early submersible research, especially during his work for the Union in the Civil War designing Ironclads.

Heinlein also invented the waterbed, although his was a therapeutic device. But, it was cited as prior art when someone later tried to file for a patent on the waterbed.

Hank is so entertaining hahaha