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Post by the light works on May 25, 2017 2:52:40 GMT
King of Bandit Jing, episode 5Jing and Kir are employed to rescue a young girl who is being auctioned off by black marketeers. Kir and another bird stage a diversion and then proceed to push her wheelchair out of the auction area, but there's just enough of a grade to where they can't stop her from going out a window. Fortunately, Jing is there... with a fire ladder truck. Jing has extended the ladder to near the window, and so catches her as she tumbles. It's possible for someone to catch someone else if they fall. But... 1. He'd have to be able to catch her as she fell, something that won't be easy as he's stuck in one spot and balancing in one place. 2. Even if he did catch her, one would think the sudden addition of mass would send a jolt through the system, especially since the ladder is indeed extended. on our previous straight stick, with a two man crew, I could go from applying the air brakes to water on target in 2½ minutes. of course, that still assumes having the truck where it is needed. there's also the fact it will take you longer to climb the stick than for the person to fall, so you have to have known the person is going to be falling. as for catching a falling person on the end of an extended ladder - it depends on the ladder, but good luck finding someone who is willing to let you shock load their ladder like that. however, I seem to recall people have jumped down to a ladder in real life situations. - so as long as the ladder is not overextended, (some use charts and tables, and others use active gauges to determine allowable tip load - the old straight stick had to be above 45 degrees to have two people on it while extended - the new one can hold at least one person at full extension and horizontal.) |
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Post by ironhold on May 25, 2017 5:26:03 GMT
King of Bandit Jing, episode 6
1. At the start of the episode, Jing makes his great escape by using an absolutely massive paper airplane as a hang glider, gripping the middle fold as he goes.
2. Near the middle of the episode, Jing finds a sword that appears to be missing chunks of the blade. In reality, careful inspection reveals that the chunks were deliberately cut out in order to turn it into a giant key.
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Post by ironhold on May 29, 2017 6:47:39 GMT
King of Bandit Jing, episode 7
The main characters need to reach an island. There's a barge that can take them there. To power it, a character raises a large piece of fabric (such as a cape), holds it into the wind, and stands fast, essentially turning themselves into a mast.
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Post by the light works on May 29, 2017 13:58:07 GMT
King of Bandit Jing, episode 7The main characters need to reach an island. There's a barge that can take them there. To power it, a character raises a large piece of fabric (such as a cape), holds it into the wind, and stands fast, essentially turning themselves into a mast. how long is he willing to spend in transit? |
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Post by ironhold on May 29, 2017 15:58:21 GMT
King of Bandit Jing, episode 7The main characters need to reach an island. There's a barge that can take them there. To power it, a character raises a large piece of fabric (such as a cape), holds it into the wind, and stands fast, essentially turning themselves into a mast. how long is he willing to spend in transit? Fortunately for all parties involved, the guy on the first barge is an animated skeleton, while the guy on the second barge is a Frankenstein monster. So the show doesn't get into what would inevitably happen from one person standing that long. |
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Post by the light works on May 30, 2017 2:59:31 GMT
how long is he willing to spend in transit? Fortunately for all parties involved, the guy on the first barge is an animated skeleton, while the guy on the second barge is a Frankenstein monster. So the show doesn't get into what would inevitably happen from one person standing that long. so not definitively testable. |
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Post by silverdragon on May 30, 2017 9:41:53 GMT
Testable for say a distance that any person is prepared to row... in one go.
And I happen to know amongst my friends, one who was part of a team that rowed across the English Channel.
He is a Kite-Surfer....
Which brings to mind a testable method, get a Kits surfer and a small boat with a large enough Kite, and a short enough distance between mainland and island that can be done, and see if you can indeed get between mainland and an island using a Kite.
The idea of using a cape is just about the same as using a kite isnt it?.
Of course dependant on the wind being in the right direction and the water not being that stormy.
Maybe a large lake?.. going round a lake to get the wind in the right direction and going across the lake with the wind takes away a few undesirable conditions. You cant get that lost on a lake either...
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Post by the light works on May 30, 2017 14:00:40 GMT
Testable for say a distance that any person is prepared to row... in one go. And I happen to know amongst my friends, one who was part of a team that rowed across the English Channel. He is a Kite-Surfer.... Which brings to mind a testable method, get a Kits surfer and a small boat with a large enough Kite, and a short enough distance between mainland and island that can be done, and see if you can indeed get between mainland and an island using a Kite. The idea of using a cape is just about the same as using a kite isnt it?. Of course dependant on the wind being in the right direction and the water not being that stormy. Maybe a large lake?.. going round a lake to get the wind in the right direction and going across the lake with the wind takes away a few undesirable conditions. You cant get that lost on a lake either... kites have actually been found to be measurably more efficient for the same sail area. - because they are up out of the surface clutter. they never caught on as boat propulsion, because they are more trouble to manage. as for being a human mast, all you need is a sailboard rig. attach it to the size boat you are trying to move, and have at it. |
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Post by wvengineer on May 30, 2017 15:38:32 GMT
I actually did that on a bike once. It was a very windy day and I was on a road where it was a tail wind for me. I had a large coat on at the time that I held open. I was able to basically sail along without pedaling for a few miles until I had to turn.
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Post by silverdragon on May 31, 2017 8:19:40 GMT
I actually did that on a bike once. It was a very windy day and I was on a road where it was a tail wind for me. I had a large coat on at the time that I held open. I was able to basically sail along without pedaling for a few miles until I had to turn. Didnt we all do that once when we were kids?.. I know it was a common sight for me to be seen with no hands on the handlebars. I had the brake cables split along the length of the cross-bar so I could grab the cables and use them without using the handlebar lever. |
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Post by ironhold on Jun 8, 2017 5:32:35 GMT
King of Bandit Jing, episode 9
The residents of a particular island chain have a legend about the "Ocarina of the Moon". It's said that if a couple hears it play, their love will endure.
It turns out that the ocarina is, in fact, a natural cave formation. Openings in the surface of a hill form the finger holes, while the cave mouth forms the mouth piece. At night, there's a chance that the wind conditions will be such that it will produce an ocarina-like effect, the trees near the openings serving as crude "fingers". However, the wind conditions must be just right and there's a chance of the cave flooding since it's next to the shoreline, meaning that the lucky couple has to time their visit just right if they want to hear it.
The question is - while it's known that wind blowing through and across openings can produce an assortment of noises, is it hypothetically possible for a situation in which the sound is similar enough to a musical instrument?
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Post by the light works on Jun 8, 2017 13:48:37 GMT
King of Bandit Jing, episode 9The residents of a particular island chain have a legend about the "Ocarina of the Moon". It's said that if a couple hears it play, their love will endure. It turns out that the ocarina is, in fact, a natural cave formation. Openings in the surface of a hill form the finger holes, while the cave mouth forms the mouth piece. At night, there's a chance that the wind conditions will be such that it will produce an ocarina-like effect, the trees near the openings serving as crude "fingers". However, the wind conditions must be just right and there's a chance of the cave flooding since it's next to the shoreline, meaning that the lucky couple has to time their visit just right if they want to hear it. The question is - while it's known that wind blowing through and across openings can produce an assortment of noises, is it hypothetically possible for a situation in which the sound is similar enough to a musical instrument? I would think it would be possible for the right natural formation to have a whistle with similar enough character to remind people of an ocarina. trees fingering a melody in any weather conditions that people would want to be standing next to a shoreline seems to me to be absurd at best. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 11, 2017 9:34:31 GMT
You ask me this on a windy day where the wind is playing around the windows, air bricks, workshop, and woods behind the house... Yes it can make "sounds", are they music?.. Depends on who is listening. I have done hikes over the moors of the Peak district, all of the national Parks, in good and bad weather. Can you get a bass woodwind sound from cave formations when the wind is in the right direction?. Plausible. Does that sound change with the strength of the wind, confirmed. Can you play a "scale" by brief changes of wind direction, velocity, and actions of nature?.. Plausible. Will it sound like an ocarina?.. "One in a million"?.. well, this is all about that one-in-a-million chance that this cave has developed that way isnt it?. Doubtful, but plausible... as long as you are expecting a bass instrumental. This is either a very small cave of a low bass sound your getting from that cave?.. Will it work?. Well, on consideration, some minor psychology, if a couple have made the effort to go there knowing the legend, and have times it right, and stay until they get the right conditions, that is no small feat?.. I would suggest that any two people who go to that kind of effort are kind of keen on each other anyway. Its not as if you of any age sex religion belief structure would happen-stance be there at the same time as a right troll of opposite beliefs etc, also there on the same day but you have no interest in whatsoever and just magically fall into love would it?.. especially if you know the legend and see them coming?.. I would expect Susan Boyle would empty the cave in seconds?.  Also, if the cave does flood with wave action, that would be a method of changing the tuning and pitch of the reverberations, thus more liable to make different sounds. Smaller volume of air makes higher pitch?. I would say plausible on all counts, in that, if you make the effort, stick around for the right conditions, have that happen, and are receptive to being in the right mood, the sounds you may hear may not be pop music of chartable quality, but just may sound to some like music of nature?.. How to test?... I dunno... thinking out loud at the keyboard here, so liable to be off key slightly?. Maybe angle a fan over a reasonable sized ocarina until it makes a noise. Vary the speed of the fan, and maybe the angle. Tape some bits of grass [or suitable paper?..] close to the holes to see if the wind will fluctuate the grass over the holes to change the pitch... |
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Post by ironhold on Jul 9, 2017 23:34:06 GMT
Lupin III, series #4
Episode #3, English title "0.2% Chance Of Survival"
The premise of the series is that it follows Arsene Lupin III, international cat burglar, and his crew of misfits.
Due to the events of the last episode, Lupin ended up on MI-6's radar. So when a member of the Royal Family makes a state visit to the region of Italy Lupin was last believed to be operating in, agents are sent to supplement the bodyguard.
One agent, Nix, is tasked with finding Lupin and retrieving a specific artifact he's stolen, and he has permission to use lethal force if necessary.
Nix, it's revealed, has hearing so sharp he can essentially use a form of echolocation to track people down. Lupin first notices this when he sees Nix tapping his foot inside an otherwise empty building to try and locate the building's entrance to the city's sewer system, and confirms it when Nix' first response to a smoke bomb is to protect his ears instead of his nose and mouth. It takes some doing, but Lupin is able to turn it against him by making enough noise at just the right moment to conceal his doubling back.
1. Is it possible for a person's hearing to be so sharp that they could indeed use echolocation?
2. Would that be useful in the fashion depicted to try and find openings or hollow areas in buildings?
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Post by Cybermortis on Jul 9, 2017 23:40:28 GMT
Actually it IS possible for humans to use ecolocation to navigate, at least around buildings.
You can find openings and hollow areas by the difference in sound when those areas are tapped; Although it depends on how thick the surface is.
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 10, 2017 9:42:48 GMT
This lad used echo location. Search his name for a few other video's...
He has 46[ish] years of experience.
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Post by silverdragon on Jul 10, 2017 9:59:38 GMT
BTW, on "stud" walls, I can find support struts by echo location... I tap the wall, and it makes different sound when I find the studs.
I have a stud finder that does that by sort of the same way, electronically, and flashes a light, which I have to use in some places because certain people dont "Trust" the tap method.
On the above video, the click is his method, the cane is for everyone else, white with red stripes, the universal accepted method, so they can identify him as a blind person.
Occasionally he uses that for "feel", but his echo location works a lot better.
He can explain the rest better than I can. Its also his "Confidence"?..
Seeing what others dont.
A Trick I teach other drivers, "Reflections", use house windows and shop windows and all other reflective surfaces to see around obstacles. This trick is good for newer drivers who dont get taught this on the usual driving tuition.
Look UNDER vehicles, you can see a person behind a vehicle just by seeing their feet?..
Backing up a vehicle to the wall with a tail-pipe that sticks out the back of the vehicle....
Can you "hear" when you get close?. The tail pipe will, if you know how, reflect a different noise from that wall, open your window and listen.
"Echo location", not only works, it works for all of us, its how you train your hearing to notice.
For instance, walk into a tunnel, presuming you dont have "super quiet" shoes.
Notice the difference in the sound of your own footsteps?.
Those who are blind train train and train again...
This isnt something you learn in a few days, but after a while, you can "see" the walls, and then, the doorway....
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Post by ironhold on Jul 17, 2017 5:46:31 GMT
Went to catch up on some older shows, and something rattled loose in my head.
This one comes from the giant robot series "Big O". The main character, Roger, has a number of gadgets and gimmicks at his disposal that he uses whenever possible so as to minimize how often he has to call the titular robot out.
One of them is a device that, on the surface, looks like a reasonably normal ink pen, the kind someone with a lot of money would have as a status symbol (he is, officially, the town's top private negotiator). In reality, when he puts the end of the "pen" to a lock and presses the button, it shoots forth a piece of malleable metal. The metal manages to take the shape of the key that fits the lock, allowing him to pop open the door. He's shown as being able to pull the metal bit back out, at which point it's shown that the bit is able to retain its shape. I'll have to go back and check, but I recall him using it in a few different episodes as a disguised lock pick.
Could something like this work?
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Post by mrfatso on Jul 17, 2017 6:11:02 GMT
With current the hnology no.
There are memory metal alloys that can be bent out of shape and then return to their original form but that's not the same application. You could not get the metal to form the new "key" shape.
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Post by the light works on Jul 17, 2017 14:18:30 GMT
since the key works by pushing the pins of the lock out of the way, and the pins in at-rest position are all at the same "level" (the cut of the key pushes some pins further than others) then no, that will not work as described.
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