The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd - Season 3 Episode 06- Outlandish Ideas
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00:09What happens when a town is faced with an actual whale of a problem?
00:14This thing is decomposing by the day, and it might fall apart if pushed or pulled.
00:21They want to pack this thing with so much dynamite that it will literally vaporize.
00:25You might be thinking, it's a bit excessive, isn't it?
00:27Or how does one deal with an island overrun by snakes?
00:33These animals are almost impossible to kill.
00:36So the plan is to bomb the jungle from helicopters with mice.
00:41Here's where it gets complicated.
00:43What about the astonishing way one man keeps his family warm?
00:47He needs to find something to burn to save his daughter's life.
00:51They're throwing stack after stack of money onto the fire.
00:55$10,000 at a time.
01:00These are the ideas so outlandish.
01:02They are truly unbelievable.
01:03It started as a calm day on the Oregon coast until a strange stench filled the air
01:22and set the stage for one of the most bizarre cleanup efforts in history.
01:27It's a lovely fall day in Oregon in 1970.
01:34People are taking November walks down the beach, and all of a sudden they see this massive whale washed up on the shore.
01:42This is a rotting sperm whale that's the size of a school bus.
01:50We're talking 45 feet long and 8 tons.
01:55At first, the whale is kind of an attraction.
01:58People go to check it out.
02:00People are taking pictures.
02:01But pretty soon, things start to turn in a different direction.
02:07It starts to reek very badly.
02:10I mean, this is a massive, rotting mammal.
02:13You've probably had something go bad in the back of your refrigerator.
02:17Well, imagine 8 tons of rotting leftovers.
02:21People can smell it a mile away.
02:23Back then, beach cleanup fell upon an unlikely source, the Oregon State Highway Division.
02:31The Highway Division considers their options.
02:34This thing is decomposing by the day, and it might fall apart if pushed or pulled, making an even bigger mess.
02:43They have to find a way to get rid of it without moving it.
02:47After consulting with the Navy, the State Highway Division comes up with an explosive plan.
02:52They want to bring in a half a ton of dynamite.
02:57Now, 1,000 pounds of dynamite, you might be thinking, it's a bit excessive, isn't it?
03:00That's the plan, though.
03:02The plan is to pack this thing with so much dynamite that it will literally vaporize.
03:06They want to blow it to smithereens.
03:08The idea is, the bigger the explosive charge, the better the chances it will disintegrate the whale carcass.
03:14And whatever small pieces of the whale are left, well, those will get eaten by seagulls and other little scavengers like crabs.
03:21That morning, hundreds of people show up, and the local news even sends their best anchor to cover the story.
03:28If there's any large chunks left, possibly set another charge.
03:32They pack the whale full of dynamite, and they start the countdown, and everybody's getting excited, and they count it down with 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
03:41As the pink mist of blood and blubber spray the beach, it seems as though the idea is a success.
03:50And then, people start running, because what goes up must come down.
03:55Even from 900 feet away, people are being pummeled with whale blubber and blood and everything that was rotting inside this giant carcass.
04:08People are desperately trying to avoid getting crushed by these 50-pound chunks of whale.
04:15While no onlookers suffer any major injuries, one spectator takes a different kind of hit.
04:22That day, Walter Ummenhofer drives to the beach in his beautiful, new 1969 Oldsmobile Regency.
04:34Walter is parked a full quarter mile from the explosion.
04:37But that doesn't stop a gigantic, 5-foot-long slab of whale flesh from landing directly on top of his new car.
04:49But here's the best part.
04:51When Walter went to go buy this car, he bought it from the dealership that was holding a sale that was called Get a Whale of a Deal.
04:58Safe to say if another whale ever washes ashore in Lane County,
05:01the folks in charge will definitely think twice before lighting the fuse.
05:07Lesson learned.
05:08Now, 7,500 miles away, there's another mammal trying very hard to not get blown up.
05:17Cambodia is the site of a great deal of Cold War combat.
05:21Stretching from the 1960s all the way through to the 1990s.
05:25During this time, combatant groups found landmines to be a very effective way of fighting the war.
05:32It's an extremely reliable weapon.
05:34You can put it somewhere, walk away, and forget about it.
05:39Long after the war ends, the forgotten landmines remain buried, turning ordinary fields into death traps.
05:46By 2016 in Cambodia, it is estimated there are close to 6 million active landmines and other undetonated explosives spread throughout the countryside.
05:56Now, you have to appreciate how incredibly scary this is.
06:01They have absolutely no record of where these mines and these bombs are.
06:07They could be anywhere.
06:08For years, the solution has been to send bomb experts in body armor using metal detectors and soil density detectors.
06:17But this is expensive.
06:18It's very, very slow.
06:20Also, it's incredibly dangerous.
06:21That's when a plan comes along to bring in an unusual squadron of bomb detectives to sniff out the problem.
06:31About 5,000 miles away, in the country of Tanzania, there is an organization called APOPO.
06:38Now, APOPO are using giant African pouched rats to sniff out landmines in conflict areas around the globe.
06:49The giant African pouched rat is kind of the perfect bomb-sniffing animal.
06:54They actually have very bad eyesight, so they really rely on this incredibly fine-tuned sense of smell to do just about everything, to navigate, to find food, and so on.
07:05They call them hero rats, and their noses are even more sensitive than those found on dogs.
07:12There's also another crucial benefit that works in their favor.
07:17Most mines take approximately 11 pounds of pressure to set off the detonation switch.
07:23Well, the heaviest an African pouched rat can be is 2 to 2.5 pounds, so they can traverse the terrain incredibly well and safely.
07:33So how do you get a rat to sniff out a landmine?
07:38Mine-sniffing rats take about a year to train.
07:41At 10 weeks, the pups are weaned from their mothers and given basic clicker training,
07:47where they learn to associate the sound of a click with a tasty food reward.
07:52Then they're introduced to a small metal ball containing TNT.
07:58When they sniff it, they'd hear a click, and they'd get a little tasty reward, like a banana.
08:04From there, they're taken to the field, where they begin to train with real but deactivated landmines.
08:10By 2016, the Cambodian government is ready to put these African mine-sniffing rats to work.
08:18They're going to be targeting the Srei Nui area of Siem Reap,
08:22where it is known that the farmland is littered with anti-personnel mines.
08:26The rats are brought out to a field where they'll be working,
08:29and they're all hooked to a string that's about knee height.
08:32Picture a grid system in which each rat is hooked to a line via a short leash,
08:40and as they are sent out along this grid system, they trail behind them a measuring tape.
08:46So when the rat detects a mine, the handler can pinpoint its exact spot.
08:53Once a mine is detected, the rats signal to their handlers.
08:56The rats put their noses high up into the air and sniff while enthusiastically scratching at the ground in front of them.
09:07The hero rats are not only thorough, they're able to work incredibly efficiently.
09:12It could take a crew of human beings five days to clear an area the size of a tennis court.
09:18Hero rats could do that in 30 minutes.
09:20Since 2016, hero rats have found roughly 1,200 anti-personnel mines and more than 700 unexploded bombs in Cambodia.
09:31But one stands out from the pack, Magwa, the goat of hero rats.
09:37This little giant has sniffed out over 100 landmines and other explosives during five years of active duty in Cambodia.
09:47In 2020, Magwa is actually awarded a gold medal by a UK veterinary charity because of his life-saving devotion to duty.
09:59After retiring from service, the bomb sniffers get to live out their lives in the lap of luxury with other hero rats.
10:06Back home in Tanzania, not a bad way to spend your golden years.
10:11Today, modern dentistry has put a perfect smile within reach of anyone with enough cash.
10:19But there was a time when that pristine set of chompers required a much bigger sacrifice.
10:25In 1815 in London, dental care is nothing like it is today.
10:33You can't just hop down to the drugstore and buy toothpaste.
10:37And it'll be another 40 years before there's anything resembling trained dentists.
10:42Suffice to say, teeth are in pretty bad shape.
10:46If you are a rich Georgian living in London at this time, what you really, really want is a beautiful set of teeth.
10:56Which is easier said than done, because the upper class has a bit of a sweet tooth.
11:02Sugar is a status symbol.
11:04The more confections that you have on your table, the greater your wealth is presented to your friends and your peers.
11:11There's cakes, there's candies, there's sweet treats and pastries.
11:15They have no idea that the sugar is actually rotting away their teeth.
11:19And any false teeth at the time, those are going to be made from ivory that is taken from animals, like elephant.
11:25But they don't feel good, they wobble, and it makes it really hard to chew.
11:30And for some people, it even affects the way they speak.
11:33So what's the only surefire replacement for a human tooth?
11:37More human teeth.
11:39So there's an entire black market amongst the poor to sell their teeth to dentists.
11:45And they go straight into the mouths of the rich.
11:47The problem is that there aren't enough human teeth around for the supply to meet the demand.
11:54So these experts turn to another source.
11:58Not the living, but the recently deceased.
12:02And just as the demand for dentures grows, fate delivers a grim solution.
12:07On June 18, 1815, the Battle of Waterloo takes place.
12:15This is the final battle in Napoleon's 23-year quest to take over Europe.
12:2270,000 French forces take arms against over 113,000 British and their allies.
12:30And the French are defeated.
12:32In the course of battle, 47,000 soldiers die.
12:36It doesn't take long for gruesome opportunists to turn the bloodshed into a business.
12:41These scavengers go around yanking out tooth after tooth after tooth.
12:49After they collect these, they sell them to dentists for six pence a tooth.
12:54It's about seven bucks today.
12:56If that sounds like not very much, think about more than a million teeth.
12:59This is more than a $7 million deal, all told.
13:02And what makes these ones so great is that they're predominantly from people in their early 20s or even younger.
13:09So these are fit, healthy people, good teeth.
13:13Dentists across London begin filling orders for what will come to be known as Waterloo teeth.
13:20Of course, the dentists mark up that six pence a tooth price when they're creating these dentures.
13:27But everyone wants to get a set of Waterloo teeth, because that means you have the teeth of a young, healthy soldier.
13:34It even becomes something of a bragging statement for someone to say,
13:38hey, I've got a mouthful of Waterloo teeth.
13:42Thankfully, it doesn't become a permanent solution.
13:45By the middle of the 19th century, advances in technology like porcelain and vulcanized rubber
13:51render obsolete the practices of harvesting teeth from the deceased.
13:57Sure, money can buy a fancy new set of pearly whites, but it can't fix everything.
14:02Unless, of course, you're the most ruthless drug cartel kingpin in history.
14:07In the cocaine capital of South America, with bombings every night,
14:11Medellin begins to look like a city under siege.
14:14Pablo Escobar is easily the world's biggest drug trafficker in the 80s and the 90s.
14:20At his height, he is supplying the United States with about 80% of its cocaine.
14:27Western demand for the drug almost outstrips supplies.
14:31This makes him one of the richest people on planet Earth,
14:35with roughly $30 billion to his name, about $75 billion in today's money.
14:41And Pablo Escobar has no problem showing off his wealth.
14:45He's got a private zoo, yachts and mansions and cars.
14:51He's also got no problem using his money to buy influence with politicians,
14:56and in some cases, using his money to pay for the murder of people that might get in his way.
15:00Eventually, by 1991, mounting pressure forces the Colombian government to act, kind of.
15:07They put Escobar in a very low-security prison.
15:11So low, in fact, that they let him design it himself.
15:14And he puts in a sauna and a pool and a nightclub.
15:19Unfortunately, but not surprisingly,
15:21Pablo's actually still running his criminal enterprise from inside these prison walls.
15:26And when he commits a murder on prison grounds, the Colombian government has had enough.
15:31When prison officials attempt to transfer him to a higher security institution, Escobar flees.
15:38Escobar collects his wife, his young daughter, his son, and a few bodyguards,
15:43and they go into hiding, jumping from safe house to safe house.
15:47Escobar is hiding out in a safe house that is located very high up in the Andes Mountains.
15:52One night, his eight-year-old daughter, Manuela, complains about being cold.
15:57Escobar and his wife can see that she's shivering and turning blue, suffering from hypothermia.
16:03With Manuela's condition getting worse,
16:06Escobar realizes he needs to make a fire to warm his daughter up, but this is rocky terrain.
16:11There is no tree to cut down to build a fire,
16:13and he needs to find something to burn to save his daughter's life.
16:17Luckily, this is one problem he can still use his money for.
16:22Like a lot of drug dealers, a good amount of his fortune is in paper cash,
16:28which he's hidden in cellars and in walls in his hideaways.
16:32So his plan is to literally burn his money.
16:39The cash is collected, and then he sets it on fire.
16:43Now, we're not dealing with Colombian pesos.
16:47This is U.S. currency, and as the fire builds,
16:51they're throwing stack after stack of money onto the fire, $10,000 at a time.
16:59That night, Pablo Escobar burns $2 million to keep his daughter warm.
17:04It helps to stave off the hypothermia,
17:06and the Escobar family lives to run another day.
17:09But this doesn't last forever.
17:11On December 2, 1993, Pablo Escobar is shot in the head and killed
17:16during a shootout with authorities on a rooftop in Colombia.
17:23Technically, given Escobar's $30 billion fortune,
17:26he could have kept up his very expensive life hack
17:29every night for over 40 years.
17:34Controlling pests is as old and vexing as any problem in human history.
17:39But when a Micronesian island becomes overrun with unwanted vermin,
17:44their solution is a bit outside the box.
17:49The Pacific island of Guam is part of Micronesia,
17:52but it's a U.S. territory.
17:54It's beautiful islands, got resorts and palm trees and beautiful beaches.
17:59But behind all that, you've got all of this jungle.
18:03And that jungle is just totally and completely littered with venomous snakes.
18:09They're known as brown tree snakes.
18:12These nocturnal predators can grow to be over six feet long.
18:16The brown tree snake is an invasive creature.
18:19They started showing up on the island shortly after World War II,
18:23hiding in Indonesian shipping vessels destined for the ports of Guam.
18:27When they were unloaded on Guam, the animals slithered off into the jungle
18:31and entered an environment where they face absolutely no predator at all.
18:38They're at the top of the food chain, so they can literally eat anything that they want to.
18:42They've eaten most of Guam's birds.
18:44And because of that, there are no birds that are seeding the ground anymore,
18:48which causes the thinning of the forest.
18:50They're eating power lines, biting villagers, and they're biting children.
18:54And so it's decided that these snakes have got to go.
19:00These animals are almost impossible to kill because they are nocturnal.
19:04Plus, they're arboreal, which means that they're pretty much out of reach at most points
19:08because they're way at the top of the canopy.
19:11Laying traps in the ground is virtually useless.
19:13They have to try to figure out how to get them where they feed, and that's in the trees.
19:17So the plan is to bomb the jungle from helicopters with mice.
19:24But not just any ordinary mice.
19:27These mice are packing a secret weapon.
19:30In 2000, the Department of Agriculture does a study.
19:34What can kill these snakes?
19:35And they're feeding them various poisons, but also some over-the-counter drugs.
19:40And what they discover is that these snakes are highly reactive to acetaminophen,
19:45the active ingredient in Tylenol.
19:49And with just 80 milligrams of acetaminophen, there's a 100% kill rate among these snakes.
19:55So they take 2,000 frozen dead mice and just stuff them with Tylenol.
20:02Here's where it gets complicated.
20:03If you drop a frozen mouse from a helicopter, it's just going to go through the trees and hit the ground.
20:07But what we could do is glue the mouse to a piece of cardboard and then attach some streamers
20:13in hopes that it will slow it down enough that it'll kind of catch in the trees and get stuck.
20:17Boom.
20:19Dead snake.
20:21But the choppers fired up.
20:22It's time for the first mission to bomb the hell out of some snakes.
20:26Just before sundown, the military helicopters fly in, and one by one,
20:30they drop their Tylenol mice bombs and watch them slowly descend into the jungle.
20:34And then they wait to see if the hungry snakes will take the bait.
20:40The next day, officials find dead snakes everywhere.
20:44They're on the ground.
20:46They're hanging from tree limbs.
20:47They're on fences.
20:49They estimate that in this area alone, 80% of the snakes have been killed off.
20:54The U.S. government decides to run a few more mice bomb missions,
20:57but these missions are running up a pretty high tad.
21:00It turns out dropping a few thousand mice from helicopters costs nearly $8 million per mission.
21:07That's a whole lot of cheese.
21:09After a few years, they decide to move on to a cheaper, more toxic-based chemical
21:14that they can just automatically drop onto the trees.
21:17The snakes might have been a nuisance,
21:21but for one island, the location itself was the biggest headache of all.
21:27Sitting off the coast of Wisconsin's Lake Chippewa
21:30is what appears to be a pretty nice-sized island.
21:33You might expect to see some beautiful houses or a farmer's market on Sundays,
21:37but it's deserted.
21:38That's because this isn't technically an island.
21:40It's a giant, floating bog, and Lake Chippewa is loaded with them.
21:47Lake Chippewa is a man-made lake about 22 miles in diameter.
21:51When it was created in 1923, engineers basically just flooded an existing swampland,
21:56covering its peat bogs with about 90 feet of water.
21:59And when they let that water rush in,
22:03some of those bogs floated to the surface,
22:07held together by a network of roots and peat.
22:10Unlike an island which is attached to the earth,
22:13these aren't anchored by anything.
22:16So when the winds are high, these tamarack trees, well, they act as a sail.
22:21The islands start moving all over the lake.
22:24One bog in particular is the most restless,
22:27known as the 40-acre bog.
22:31Beginning in the early 2000s, when the winds are just right,
22:34they blow this 200-ton, 40-acre bog island across the lake
22:39and lodge it underneath a highway bridge.
22:42Whenever this happens during a busy summer,
22:45fishing boats and pontoon boats can't cross to the other side,
22:48and the people on those boats are understandably ticked off about it.
22:51At first, some suggest blowing it up.
22:56The 40-acre bog has been on that lake for decades.
23:01There's different species of wildlife that live on it.
23:04Migratory birds use it.
23:06So now it's about destroying a whole ecosystem,
23:09and clearly that's not something people want to do.
23:12That's when the community of Lake Chippewa
23:14comes together with a pretty outlandish idea.
23:17They ultimately decide to push the bog.
23:21You might imagine a complicated operation
23:24run by the Army Corps of Engineers involving barges and pulleys,
23:27but no, this is actually going to be carried out
23:29by 10 local fishing boats.
23:33They all line up, and on the count of three,
23:36they all rev their engines.
23:38This thing is massive.
23:44It's 200 tons, and at full throttle,
23:48they just barely get it to budge.
23:52They realize they're going to need more boats.
23:57Pretty soon, boats from all over the lake
24:00volunteer to join this cause.
24:02So now you have 50 boats working together
24:04to try and push this thing.
24:05Eventually, after several hours,
24:10the makeshift armada gets the 40-acre bog
24:12away from the bridge.
24:14Unfortunately, it's only a temporary solution.
24:18Every year, that bog still floats underneath the bridge
24:22and blocks the waterway.
24:23And every year, the people of Lake Chippewa
24:26push the bog out to where it can't be a nuisance.
24:30But the residents of Lake Chippewa don't seem to mind,
24:33and at this point, it's become an annual tradition
24:36where they hold this kind of big, yearly,
24:39bog-moving boat party.
24:42At least they get a party out of it.
24:47Medicine is full of miracles
24:49and occasionally totally insane-sounding ideas
24:52that somehow work.
24:54Every year, approximately one-third
24:57of organ transplantations are rejected.
25:01And that is because their body says,
25:03yes, this is the right organ,
25:05but no, it did not come from me.
25:08And the body tries to kill it.
25:10And this amounts to thousands of lives lost per year.
25:15In 2017, scientists at the Salk Institute
25:18for Biological Sciences
25:19are trying to solve this problem
25:21in a very strange way.
25:24As crazy as it sounds,
25:26they are trying to grow human-compatible organs
25:28inside of pigs.
25:32We're talking about using the stem cells
25:35from the patient themselves
25:36that are then grown into real human organs
25:40using the pig body as a host.
25:44This way, the organs are fully developed,
25:47fully functioning,
25:47and guaranteed not to be rejected.
25:50Pigs are already the best candidates
25:54for organ donation to humans
25:56because the organs are anatomically
25:59and functionally very similar
26:01to the human organs.
26:03They call these pig-human organs chimera,
26:06after the hybrid monster from Greek mythology.
26:10To pull off this experiment,
26:12scientists inject a small number
26:14of human stem cells into a pig embryo.
26:18The pig embryo with human cells inside
26:21is then implanted into the womb of a sow.
26:2628 days later,
26:27the chimera embryo is removed from the mother.
26:29It's just the size of a grain of rice.
26:32But inside is a small miracle.
26:35The researchers examine the chimera
26:38and they find functional human cells
26:41in the heart,
26:42in the brain,
26:43in the liver.
26:45Potentially, this means
26:47that if one of these chimera
26:49were allowed to fully develop,
26:52its organs could be transplanted
26:54into the human
26:55that donated the original stem cells
26:57and function fully
27:00as if it were thereon.
27:01While this could solve
27:03the problem of organ rejection,
27:05it could present
27:06a whole new set of nightmares.
27:08The worry is that
27:09if pig and human DNA co-mingle,
27:12we might one day
27:13get a real human-pig hybrid
27:16living among us.
27:18For now, at least,
27:19scientists are only allowed
27:21to let their chimera develop
27:23for 28 days.
27:25They have a lot more work to do
27:26before proving it's safe
27:28to allow one to mature.
27:30Thankfully, it doesn't look like
27:32we will be living on
27:32Planet of the Swine
27:33any time soon.
27:35Meanwhile, a beekeeper in Turkey
27:37is dealing with his own group
27:39of piggies.
27:43Ibrahim Sedef
27:44is an agricultural engineer
27:46who has a honey farm
27:48in the town of Trabzon
27:49along the Black Sea.
27:51This isn't any old honey
27:53he's making.
27:54This is top-shelf stuff
27:55that goes for as much
27:57as $40 a jar.
27:58This is a part of the world
28:00where they had been making honey
28:02for thousands of years.
28:04His stuff is like honey gold.
28:07The problem is
28:08someone's been helping themselves
28:10to Ibrahim's supply,
28:11so he sets up cameras.
28:14Every night,
28:16hungry brown bears
28:17break into his farm,
28:18sniff out hives,
28:19and steal his honey.
28:21Over the last three years,
28:23Ibrahim has lost $10,000
28:25to these brown bears.
28:28With the average pest,
28:29you could just go outside
28:31and shoot them away,
28:32but these are
28:32eight-foot-tall bears.
28:36They will maul you.
28:39So night after night,
28:41he's watching on the camera
28:43these bears come in
28:44and steal his honey.
28:46So his first thought is,
28:47I'll just hide the honey better.
28:50He puts the hives
28:51in harder-to-reach places,
28:53and the bears just
28:53climb up and find it.
28:55He even takes heavy rocks
28:56and puts them on the hives,
28:58and the bears
28:58just flick them away.
29:00He tries leaving other sweets
29:01and other foods behind,
29:03like apples
29:03and sourdough bread
29:05and even store-bought honey,
29:07but these bears
29:07are having none of it.
29:08They just walk right past it
29:10and go right for the good stuff.
29:12So he starts to get creative
29:13because he realizes
29:14this is really not a fight
29:16that he can win,
29:17so let's figure out
29:18how to turn this
29:18into something positive.
29:20That's when he comes up
29:21with a truly unbelievable idea.
29:24Since these giant bears
29:26are obviously connoisseurs
29:27of honey,
29:28he decides to put
29:29their expert palates
29:31to work for him,
29:32and he sets up
29:33a taste test
29:34to see which of his honeys
29:36they like best.
29:37If all goes to plan,
29:38he could actually charge
29:39more for his honey
29:40because it comes
29:42with the brown bear
29:43seal of approval.
29:45So he decides
29:46to set out a table
29:47with four different bowls on it.
29:48One has cherry jam,
29:50and the other three bowls
29:51all have different types
29:53of honey in it.
29:54There's flower honey,
29:56chestnut honey,
29:57and answer honey.
30:00Night falls.
30:01They show up.
30:02They see the cherry jam.
30:05They're, like,
30:06not interested in it
30:07at all.
30:07They sniff
30:08the two other honeys.
30:10They're like,
30:11hmm, whatever.
30:12Then they come
30:13to the answer honey,
30:15and they go crazy for it.
30:19Answer honey
30:19is the most expensive
30:21honey in the world.
30:22It's made from the nectar
30:23of 90 flowers.
30:25You're talking about
30:26$150 a pound.
30:29For Ibrahim,
30:30this is everything.
30:31This is video proof
30:32that brown bears
30:34prefer the answer honey.
30:36His answer honey.
30:38He's got
30:39bear-approved honey.
30:43Ibrahim says
30:45his bear-approved honey
30:46has become so popular,
30:47he no longer minds
30:48the regular donations
30:49to his taste testers.
30:51When a family
30:54in Northern California
30:55decides to spend
30:56their afternoon
30:57amidst the clouds,
30:59their trip goes
31:00from peaceful
31:00to chaotic
31:01in a matter of seconds.
31:03With their lives
31:03on the line,
31:04a brilliant,
31:05unexpected fix
31:06appears just
31:07in the nick of time.
31:1038-year-old
31:12Artem Kanonuk,
31:13along with his wife
31:14and their 2-year-old child,
31:16are buzzing
31:16with excitement.
31:17Artem,
31:18who is an amateur pilot,
31:19has chartered a plane
31:20for the family
31:21to spend their
31:22spring afternoon
31:22flying above
31:23the Northern California scenery.
31:27After takeoff,
31:28the family
31:29and the plane
31:29are gliding south,
31:31observing the treetops
31:32as they head
31:33towards their family home
31:34in Santa Rosa.
31:37That's when the chug
31:38of the plane's engine
31:39stops.
31:41It's just lost all power,
31:432,600 feet
31:44above the trees.
31:47Artem is desperately
31:48trying to restart
31:49the aircraft,
31:50but he's running
31:50out of altitude
31:51very quickly.
31:53Artem's big challenge
31:54is that there's
31:55no field anywhere
31:56in sight.
31:57He's looking down
31:58on a vast expanse
32:00of forest
32:01with no place
32:02to put the aircraft down.
32:04It's quite possible
32:05that the terrain
32:07collision avoided
32:08system called TCAS
32:09is screaming at them,
32:11terrain, terrain,
32:13pull up, pull up,
32:14and there's nothing
32:15that they can do
32:16because they have
32:17because they have no power
32:17to that engine.
32:19His wife and child
32:20are beginning
32:21to freak out.
32:22He then tells them,
32:23brace for impact.
32:26That's when something
32:27unbelievable happens.
32:32They're suddenly
32:33a jolt
32:34and then calm.
32:36The plane feels like
32:39it's just floating.
32:42Are they being carted off
32:43to the pearly gates
32:44by angels?
32:45Not quite.
32:47Artem has just
32:48pulled the lever
32:48to deploy the Cirrus
32:50airframe parachute
32:51system,
32:52or CAPS.
32:53This is actually
32:55a parachute
32:55for an entire aircraft.
32:57This is a 2,400-square-foot
32:59parachute
32:59that deploys
33:01by virtue of a rocket
33:02that gets it open
33:03very quickly,
33:03and it has the effect
33:05of slowing
33:05the descent
33:06of the aircraft
33:07from dangerous
33:08and fatal speed
33:10to a survivable speed.
33:12Because it is
33:13at the weight center
33:14of the plane,
33:15it keeps the aircraft
33:16completely level.
33:18The airplane parachute
33:19is invented
33:20by Cirrus co-founder
33:22Alan Klapmeyer
33:23after he survives
33:25a mid-air collision
33:26in 1985.
33:27After that experience,
33:29he decides
33:29that he is going
33:30to put a life-saving
33:31parachute
33:32in every single
33:33Cirrus plane.
33:35Luckily for the
33:36Kanonuk family,
33:37by 1998,
33:39this becomes
33:39a reality.
33:42Miraculously,
33:43they are more
33:45or less unscathed.
33:46They have survived
33:47this horrible incident,
33:48and now they also
33:49have a great
33:50family story
33:50where they can talk
33:51about how
33:52one parachute
33:52saved three people.
33:56To date,
33:57this airplane parachute
33:58system has saved
33:59249 lives.
34:01Maybe one day
34:02they'll put one
34:02on the red eye
34:03out of Los Angeles,
34:04just in case.
34:06Next up,
34:07something unusual
34:08that protects
34:09against a different
34:10type of disaster.
34:14In China,
34:15in 2008 and 2010,
34:17there were two
34:17devastating earthquakes
34:18that hit in the middle
34:19of the night
34:20of the night
34:20and ended up
34:21killing thousands
34:22of people,
34:23mostly because
34:24they were crushed
34:24by buildings
34:25that collapsed.
34:27This leads
34:28an ambitious inventor
34:29by the name
34:29of Wong Wenqi
34:30to come up
34:31with an idea
34:32that could save
34:32your life
34:33from the comfort
34:34of your own bed.
34:36In 2010,
34:37Wong secures
34:38the patent
34:39for his invention
34:40known as
34:41an earthquake bed.
34:44Say, for example,
34:44you're in bed
34:45with your wife
34:46or your husband
34:46and an earthquake
34:48happens.
34:50A series of sensors
34:51detect vibrations
34:52and within seconds,
34:55the mattress
34:56folds you
34:56and your loved one
34:57into a taco
34:58and draws you in
34:59into the reinforced
35:00steel frame
35:01beneath the bed.
35:03Once you and your partner
35:04have hit the bottom
35:04of the metal box,
35:05the steel bed frame slabs
35:07slide into place
35:08and provide a lid
35:09for you.
35:10So now you're enclosed
35:12in this giant metal box,
35:13basically,
35:14that's going to protect you
35:15from any sort
35:16of falling debris.
35:20It's said the earthquake bed
35:21can resist
35:226,000 pounds
35:24of vertical roof load
35:25so that even if
35:27the building you're in
35:28collapses,
35:29you won't be crushed
35:30by the debris.
35:31While you're waiting
35:32to be rescued,
35:33you still get to enjoy
35:34all the comforts
35:35of home.
35:36The earthquake bed
35:37is a little bit more
35:38than just a bed.
35:39It's almost like
35:40a studio apartment.
35:42It's got a ventilation system,
35:43it's got food,
35:44it's got water,
35:45it's got a gas mask.
35:46It's got a makeshift toilet,
35:48which sounds gross,
35:50but if you think about it
35:51it's super necessary
35:52and wait for it,
35:55there's Wi-Fi.
35:56Most importantly of all,
35:58there's a radio beacon
36:00so rescuers can pinpoint
36:01your exact location.
36:03The base model bed
36:05starts around $6,000,
36:07but you can upgrade
36:08it from there
36:09if you want to put in,
36:09say, a TV,
36:10maybe a nice bar.
36:12A person or persons
36:14can survive for about
36:15a week in there
36:15before being rescued.
36:17That means you can
36:17just stay in there,
36:18you can binge watch
36:19your favorite shows,
36:20you can take calls,
36:21you can close
36:22important deals,
36:23you can do
36:24whatever you want.
36:26Guess it's time
36:27to ditch that
36:27I can't work today,
36:28I'm stuck in the rubble
36:29of an earthquake excuse.
36:33The early 1940s
36:35is the era
36:35of new ideas.
36:36Color television,
36:38the Polaroid camera,
36:39even the first jet aircraft
36:40take to the skies.
36:42And of course,
36:43a machine for babies
36:45too busy
36:45to make it to the gym.
36:48In 1940s England,
36:50parents are being told
36:51that their babies
36:53might not be exercising enough
36:54to be able
36:54to take their first steps.
36:56Fortunately for parents,
36:57there's a solution for this
36:59called the baby
37:00exercise machine.
37:02Not only does it
37:03give baby something to do
37:05when it's not eating
37:05or sleeping,
37:06but it also develops
37:07the leg muscles
37:08making every child
37:09a potential soccer international.
37:11The idea is that
37:12with each kick,
37:14the baby's leg muscles
37:15are getting stronger.
37:17And soon enough,
37:19your baby will be
37:19the first one
37:20to start walking,
37:21the first one
37:22to start running.
37:23This invention though
37:24does have
37:25a pretty good dual purpose.
37:27It's strengthening your baby,
37:29but it's also
37:29a great way
37:31to distract
37:32fussy babies
37:33and keep them occupied.
37:34The little basket
37:35even doubles as a bassinet,
37:37which might be
37:37the most useful feature
37:39of all.
37:39When Junior's all done
37:40kicking,
37:41he's tired,
37:42and so he's going to sleep,
37:44which means
37:44maybe you can too.
37:48Keeping the family strong
37:50isn't just about
37:51working out.
37:52How do you make the most
37:53of precious time together?
37:54One inventor
37:55has a bizarre idea.
37:57We've discovered
37:58the answer
37:58to every motorist's problem.
38:00Introducing Charlie Steinlow
38:01and his family.
38:02Charlie's family bicycle,
38:04which he showcases
38:05in an exhibition
38:06in Chicago in 1939,
38:08is this ginormous
38:09two-story bike
38:11that fits,
38:12well,
38:12the whole family.
38:14Charlie himself
38:14is on the second floor
38:16pedaling and steering
38:18the bike
38:18with a steering wheel.
38:20Below him
38:21is his son,
38:22Charlie Jr.,
38:23pedaling along
38:24with his dad,
38:25and at the front
38:26is his daughter Maria
38:27on the lookout
38:28for any potholes.
38:29And mom
38:30is in the middle
38:31operating a foot pedal
38:33sewing machine.
38:34Mr. Steinlow wears out
38:35the seat of his pants,
38:37Mr. Steinlow puts in
38:37a new seat.
38:38Because even on a bike ride
38:39in 1939,
38:41a mom's work
38:42is never done.
38:43Kind of a sign
38:44of the times, right?
38:45As the rest of her family
38:46gets to leisurely ride
38:47through the streets,
38:48she's just sewing away.
38:50So where did Charlie's
38:51outlandish idea
38:52come from?
38:53Charlie is an inventor,
38:55a creator,
38:56a tinkerer.
38:56He likes repairing things.
38:58And fittingly,
38:59his wife's sewing machine
39:00wasn't working,
39:01so she brought it
39:02to his workshop
39:02to repair.
39:04She didn't get it back
39:05for a while,
39:06and then when she went
39:06to look for it,
39:07it now had wheels on it
39:09and was part
39:10of a two-story bike.
39:11So the Steinlow family
39:12just keep rolling along.
39:14Sure,
39:16a bike that does
39:16everything might keep
39:17the family unit
39:18nice and tight
39:19on dry land,
39:20but it won't help you
39:21on open water.
39:24So in 1959,
39:26Canterbury Motors
39:27comes up with an idea.
39:29It's a motorcycle
39:30with a sidecar,
39:32but not just
39:33any sidecar.
39:34A young couple
39:35sets out for a day's run
39:36in a motorcycle combination.
39:38Nothing unusual about that,
39:39but in fact,
39:40it's unique.
39:41The sidecar
39:42is actually
39:43a seaworthy boat,
39:45the amphibious
39:46sidecar motorcycle.
39:49Once pulled aside
39:50your favorite body
39:50of water,
39:51just you and your wife
39:52can remove the boat,
39:54place it in the water,
39:55and you are off
39:56on a romantic
39:57boat ride for two.
39:59You actually start it
40:01much as you might
40:03a lawnmower,
40:04and it has
40:05an 80cc motor,
40:06so it's capable
40:07of speeds
40:08of about 13 miles per hour
40:10when you have
40:11two people
40:11aboard ship.
40:13The idea
40:14behind this boat
40:15is to really
40:15just spark the romance,
40:17but you're sitting
40:18front to back,
40:19so it would be
40:20really hard
40:21to whisper sweet nothings
40:23into your darling's ear.
40:25Plus,
40:25if you move
40:26too rapidly,
40:28you could tip over,
40:30both of you.
40:32Ultimately,
40:32it's too expensive
40:33for mass production.
40:34just five are made,
40:38and sadly,
40:39the Canterbury Bell
40:40is relegated
40:41to the garage
40:42of history.
40:44Whether you're
40:45blowing up
40:45beached whale carcasses,
40:47dropping mice bombs
40:48to kill snakes,
40:49or burning millions
40:50to make sure
40:50your daughter
40:51doesn't freeze,
40:52there's an idea
40:53to solve any problem.
40:55But it's only
40:55the most outlandish
40:56that are truly
40:58unbelievable.
40:59are truly
41:01unbelievable.
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