Interesting that the inventor of the lie detector also invented Wonder Woman, who has a lasso of truth. He essentially invented the lie detector twice 😂
Having jumped solo, I agree. Note to anyone considering parachuting - TIGHTEN YOUR GROIN STRAPS!!! Any movement or slippage of those straps WILL shear skin when your chute suddenly slows your descent.
@@Chuckf66 My main complaint from my jump was a crap pair of goggles. They weren't sealed to my face so when I entered freefall the wind made my eyes fill up with tears. Imagine falling towards the ground at terminal velocity and you can't see anything.
That CANT be right... terminal velocity is about 120 mph but you dont come to a full stop when you open your chute. Small planes usually go about 140 mph. So you're going from 0 to about 140 instead of 120 to more than 0
@@joecamel2155 its more than just the relative velocities though, you also have to factor in the geometry. When deploying a parachute you are falling straight down and the chute acts in direct opposition. When you're picked up by a skyhook you're at the end of several hundred feet of line that is perpendicular to the direction of travel of the plane. When the plane grabs the line it doesn't pull you straight up or straight across. It pulls the top of the line across but the person at the bottom is pulled across AND swings up into the air. This combination greatly reduces the impact of the pickup. Imagine jumping from a bridge with 50 feet of rope attached. Where would you like the the other end to be attached? The bridge you jumped from for a free fall and a snap? Or would you prefer attached another bridge 50 feet away so gently swing down? That's the difference between parachute and skyhook.
Thanks for the laughter your comment just gave me. I have been in such a situation, willing the ground to swallow me but I would have quite happily been pulled off the ground at eyewatering speed. It must be quite something though and I'm sure part of your lunch must remain on the ground with your will to live, hopes for a better future and your left shoe and sock.
The way clinching your sphincter works is that, you clench when asked the question, then release when answering. It causes an increase in blood pressure, then a release... creating a measurable pattern that fools the device. They now have a sensor to see if you're doing that as a method for defeating the machine.
@@pinback2504 Nope. The Dark Knight came out in 2008 and The Dark Knight Rises came out in 2012. The Skyhook was in The Dark Knight (2008) and not the The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
@@Beans360 hot damn you're right. this whole time i would've put money on Batman begins being 2008 and Dark knight being 2012. I'm getting old. fair play!
YESSSS! At this point I have rewatched part one far too many times for my own good (although I am not sure if one can say that they have watched too much QI content - it's just too good!)
@@BenersantheBread I mean they also have a PAL system where instead of two keys being used simultaneously it's one key being used three times in a row, so that's par for the course really
@@zbr76 why bother making that comment? if you dont like it, dont watch it, why bother being negative? my comment was a nice positive comment and you had to come in and give your smarmy response...
A version of the Skyhook, the Fulton Skyhook, features at the end of the James Bond movie "Thunderball." Can't remember if it's actually used, but the plane it's attached to clearly shows it.
WW2, people stranded in New Guinea were dropped a set of kit which folded out and roped down so that an aircraft might hook a rope and sling them onboard. So many who learned of this much later assumed they were witnising it's introduction, so that I have learned of its first being used at least every decade since.
I had to have a quick check from Alan's question, apparently there was an MI 1 etc, all the way through MI 19 - though interestingly MI 13 and MI 18 have never been used. Or they are in use and we'll just never know what they're used for. Most have been deactivated or amalgamated into MIs 5 and 6.
As a Bond fan, I actually knew that last answer, and I have an even better Bond question. Who has played most often in an authorised dramatic presentation? Anyone like to guess?
@@gryndyl If I had the QI Klaxon, it would be going off right now! That's the one most people would say. However, I was rather cagey in the question. I said Dramatic Presentation, rather than Film. While Moore has played Bond the most on Film on 7 films with Connery on 6 +1, there's been a series of Radio Play adaptations of the original Fleming Novels done for the BBC here in the UK. They've done 9 of them since 2008, all starring Toby Stephens as Bond. (Yes, the Toby Stephens who played Gustav Graves in DAD). They're really good & faithful adaptations of the original novels, and most of them are available here on RU-vid if you want to find them! There's also a 1990 radio version of You Only Live Twice with Michael Jayston as Bond that's worth hunting out.
@@fearlessfred67 I've always wished they would film exactly from the books, with respect to period too. So much better than the "blockbusters" they've churned out. They could film at a fraction of the budgets, and people who have only seen the films wouldn't recognise the stories. The ITV Agatha Christie novels are well produced and cast, something along those lines with 50s and 60s styles.
Barry Nelson was in The Shining. He played Stuart Ullman the general manager of the Overlook hotel. He told Jack about what Grady did to his family and himself.
I've been reading some Golden Age Wonder Woman stories lately that were written by Charles Moulton, the pen name of Dr. William Moulton Marston, and WW's lasso compels the person wrapped in it to do as the person holding the lasso says. Mostly, WW uses it to get the truth out of the person on the other end. It wasn't until the 1980s when it specifically became the Lasso of Truth.
It's at the end of Thunderball, but yeah. I'm disappointed none of them knew, since they were talking about spies and whatnot; even the QI Elves didn't put it on the cards.
I suspect what happened to MI 1, 2, 3, and 4 is the same as happened to Seal Team 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; they never existed and the naming was to make the Russians believe there were more of them out there. You can read about it in the XKCD blog about Twitter's lifetime, which mentions the German tank problem. The Nazis numbered the gear boxes of their tanks incrementally from 1 at the start of a production cycle, and because of that the Allies were able to use statistics to make an accurate and precise estimation of how many tanks were deployed in Normandy. The main take away the Allies took was to not do this themselves, but why stop there? Let's troll the Soviets by makig them think we're this stupid.
No Military Intelligence 1-19 all existed with very specific purposes during both world wars. Most have now been subsumed into other branches or just disbanded. 5 and 6 are the only ones still remaining although MI1b is technically now GCHQ.
bone may have been broken in the crash, or he might have cut through the knee joint. There are also plenty of pen knives with saws (at least there are now)
Your right leg I like. I've got nothing against your right leg. Unfortunately, neither have you. You fall down on the left. I have heard that Ian Fleming named James Bond after a church in Toronto.
Not wanting to be too picky, but if the first person to play James Bond played someone that wasn't called James Bond, he wasn't really the first person to play James Bond now was he?
