Well, you would have to try to figure out a way to equip it with some sort of proximity detector, and then make that proximity detector exclude the floor because you don't want to teleport that. You could also make teleportion be done by manual selection, allowing for people to select what does get teleported and what doesn't, but an incorrect selection might result in more than you want being teleported, or in a worst case scenario, less, and you lose something off your body.
Kaseda On the other hand, the "proximity detector" solution would also have issues. For example, what if you were standing on an upper floor of a building? You probably wouldn't want to take a chunk of building with you. Or what if you were in the middle of a crowd of people? You might accidentally take a few extra body parts, which probably wouldn't be fun when you got to the other end. I'd say that, given the computer technology we currently have available, the "human selection" method would probably be best; a human would know what you want to teleport, whereas a computer wouldn't.
Adam Mullarkey Well, just make the proximity relatively small. If you make it, say, 5 times thicker than the space between you and an object you are 'touching,' then if you are standing in a crowd, somebody would have to bump into you at the exact moment you teleport to be taken along with. The same way you would exclude the floor, exclude buildings, bodies of water, etc. The issue with the human selection method, well, is that it would take quite long to select, and if a human makes a mistake, you can kiss goodbye to your limb.
Kaseda Well, if you make it 5 times thicker than the space between you and the object you're holding, then you would only take a fraction of an inch from the surface of the object, unless you're using a system that detects what is part of the same object and teleports the whole object, in which case there would be no chance of a human missing a limb. I agree that it would take longer to select, but at least, when they finished, everything that you wanted to be teleported would be, and everything you didn't, wouldn't.
Tom, as someone who loves language and dialect, I appreciate your making the effort to pronounce the UK Patent Office and the US Patent Office differently, without judging either as "correct".
But to be fair, people from USA aren't going to pronounce the UK Patent Office or any other British things in the British way. So this really is something extra.
@@daveh7720 Aluminium is the correct manner, the reason it is Aluminum in America is likely due to a mistake in the marketing since the American inventor or whatever referred to it as Aluminium in all of his notes. (Though the true original term was Aluminum).
DjGalm Wooha, calm down, we are all friends here, no need to be jumpy here, slowly put down that clone gun and we can talk through this. Let's not do things we will regret in the future okay?
Interesting THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW (as always)! It was well worth the two hours doing the ridiculous special effects. It added a good giggle to a strange patent...
"It added a good giggle to a strange patent..." Read "good giggle" as 'google giggle' on the first pass over this comment. Then I thought, 'Wait, that doesn't make sense. What's a google giggle?' and I reread and saw you said good and I was slightly upset I hadn't come upon a new term or expression.
I'm not sure what Google Giggles would be, but I'd say feel free to use Google Giggle as a new term...Maybe it might would be a good way to describe issues you have with their software. I know many channels which have had irreversible issues thanks to Google. Most of them didn't giggle, but maybe Google did. :D
Unfortunately the ability to pass patents without much proofing means that companies can use them as weapons to try to stifle technological progression. You can pass a patent, never produce anything with it, then collect lawsuit fees for anyone who attempts to use your patent illegally.
On the other side of this though, there are companies out there that are pure research and then license out their IP. So they never produce a product but do contribute to technological progression, with patents being one of the tools in their belt for getting paid.
Well shortening patent duration to one year is maybe a bit drastic, but I agree with you that 20 years are too long. Companies who hold patents should make money because they made a good invention and produce good products. Long patent spans cause companys to sort of rest them selfs on their laurels. I think something like two or three years without actually employing your patent and making something out of it. As soon as you launch a product you can get an additional five years. That sound sane to me. neeneko Yes there are companies that a purely research, but I do not think that this is good concept. If you actually produce something useful out of a good idea you have immediate feedback and first hand experience. You than can combine this with your expertise on the science behind it and make your product even more awesome. Where does that knowledge go when someone bought a licence from a research company? The one actually producing a product is most likely not willing to pass it one to the patent holder.
Firstly, there is a LOT of "proofing" involved in getting a patent granted (at least in the EU/US). Secondly, you can't sue someone with a patent which isn't valid. So even if you did manage to get it granted somehow, your opponent in court can just demonstrate that it shouldn't have been granted in the first place. Thirdly (only in the UK), you can't even go around threatening to sue people if those threats are unjust.You will then be liable for a unjust threats proceedings. Fourthly, there are ways to stop patent trolls. For example, the LOT agreement: www.google.com/patents/licensing/lot/
Invalid patents are not exactley the main problem I see. The problem in my opinion is companies blocking eachothers reasearch/progress by collecting patents for keytechnologies and claiming patents for variations of similar applications. (In the process maybe even buy smaler enterprises that actually do something with the patent and shut it down) That is why I said some who holds a patent must put it to use, or otherwise looses any claim to it. And as long as I keep reading about Aple sueing Samsung because "the designe looks to similar" or research institutes patenting the contens of genomes or Oracle and Google quarreling over some Java related patents, patent laws are pretty ridiclous to me. Especialy softwar patents, don't get me started on this one :P Btw. the very existens of this LOT agreement proves that the law system has failed doing its job.
One example that caused some issues was the patenting of the "Marching Cubes" algorithm. This allowed a programmer to make a rough 3D model given a series of sample points as seen in many body scanning software. This had widespread uses and the algorithm itself was not too far beyond common sense. Programmers were not legally allowed to implement it even if they wrote everything from scratch and came up with the idea by chance. I'm not sure if a system is in place, but it would be nice if people could anti-patent their discoveries. Saying "I have discovered this concept and nobody following me may patent it"
You *can* patent a perpetual motion machine in the US; you simply *must* provide a working prototype. It's the *only* patent application requires such.
I believe that the Netherlands has a requirement that all public buildings have to be architecturally interesting, so they all have weird whimsies. TRiG.
you're not only entirely allowed to make it in england, but all over the world! the patent itself constitutes prior art, and because it was filed more than 20 years ago, no other patents could have been granted anywhere else in the world that would prevent you from commercially exploiting this flying saucer in, say, nigeria.
It was actually in BR’s contracts of employment that any intellectual property in anything you developed, whether it related to the railway or not, belonged to BR, which is how BR got their mitts on the flying saucer. There was a similar clause in my 1979 contract with BR.
You have to admit it's interesting that someone actually predicted that lasers would be used to create a fusion reaction and control it with magnetic fields so long ago, only for us to be working on things like the Tocamak now.
Do some research about Jean Pierre Petit. He is the pioneer in a domain of fluid mechanics called magnetohydrodynamics, the basic idea is to use magnetic fields to change the velocity of a conductive fluid, the process being reversible you can either slow down the fluid, generating electricity, or accelerating it, consuming some. It is through this technology that the US developed hypersonic planes that can fly at mach 10 at high altitude, and actually make leaps out of the atmosphere. They also developed torpedoes that fly underwater at 2000km/h by using this technology combined with a secondary thruster that vaporizes water around the torpedo so that it travels in a bubble of ionized steam. Yeah I know, tinfoil hat stuff right ? Until you read his book and do the back of the envelope calculations yourself. I'll be making a video about this, since the book wasn't translated to English. This was in the 90's by the way so who knows what they have now, Aurora already being SSTO with the help of a small secondary liquid fueled rocket engine.
I'm not sure about the UK, but in the US you're technically not allowed to patent something that has not been "reduced to practice." I.e. you have to be able to demonstrate that the thing can actually be built. There are plenty of ridiculous patents but that has more to do with incompetence and overwork of the patent examiners rather than the way patent law is supposed to work.
Giles, the Express cartoonist would have loved this, Les Dawson would have loved this, Blue Peter would have had one they made earlier out of loo rolls and sticky tape that you could fly in your back garden. ( But BR tested it for viability and said it was currently lost in orbit somewhere in the vicinty of Betelgeuse and deny the rumour it disintegrated in the rain and crash landed in a back garden somewhere in the vicinity of Chorelywood ).
"That ran every one of the country's railways" Not London Underground, and not any of the railways in Northern Ireland. And not the few remaining private industrial or heritage railways. Not the Blackpool Trams. And not other light rail and some newer heavy rail commuter systems that came about in the decades before its demise. Sorry to be nitpicky ;)
Mrs Richards: " I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?
laser ignited fusion it may seem far fetched but, The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory an that's what they are doing there now
Chinese government actually granted a perpetual machine patent: it's a electric bike with fans, when you ride it, the fan generator on the bike generates power due to airflow, charging the bike.
That sounds like it could be somewhat useful if the fans only deployed when you were using the handbrake. Effectively it would be a bulky air-brake that charged the battery (slightly). Like a really weaksauce version of regenerative braking in hybrid cars.
Listening to this in 2018 and the company, on the point of laser-ignited reactors and magnets deflecting particles for thrust, were actually kind of right
I want to know why no one is discussing going back to the Orion project, but build the damn thing in space, and go snag some asteroids for minerals and whatnot. I loves me whatnots. After the thing is hollowed out, you have a great space ship that with Orion could then take you to the stars fairly quickly. And that's with pretty much current tech.
That is not really worth a video. Try to eat nearly frozen cake or cold wine, or basically anything that is supposed to be consumed at room temperature or hot. It will not taste all that exiting anymore. Same goes with beer. A lot of beer simply does not really taste like anything (talking about mainstream beer brands in Europe, more precisely Germany/Switzerland) at all so it does not matter if you drink it warm or ice cold. While other develop a very ugly taste if they are not properly cooled (like Heineken). These beer brands have adapted to the fact that we refrigerate beer to keep it from spoiling and most people do not have the patience to wait until it has warmed up (or it is simply forbidden to serve warme beer, like here in Switzerland). So it does not matter if it tastes like piss if it is a bit warmer and since it does taste like piss if it is a bit warmer people tend to drink cold beer. Ale and Stout and similar just taste like nothing if you serve them ice cold (much like wine). If you have the patience (or the are permitted) to wait and let it warm up a bit, you are in for quite a surprising taste experience.
+Hector Maddock-Greene Despite thinking Britain is the coldest place in the universe and they also think that the room is the living room when it means cellar.
A magnetohydrodynamic isn't actually farfetched at all, sure at the time they had nowhere near the material sciences and expertise to make it work, and the stability of saucer designs is actually atrocious without either the rotation or a computer controlled flight system, but with some work I don't think we're a decade away. IF people work hard on the design. And if its even economical to run transport on then.
For technological advancement I see fit not to allow patents to invention not proven possible for now because may prevent someone else from getting it possible.
Personally if you can't build it, I don't think you deserve the ability to patent it. Rarely idea is so unique that you were the only one capable of making it so if you can't produce it you shouldn't be able to sit on the patent.
You forget, BR is the entity that gave us such wonderful excuses as "wrong type of snow." Only time I've ever been on a franchised train that got cancelled due to snow is because the doors kept freezing open.
I think it should not be possible to patent something when you don't have working prototype. There are dozens for companies which do nothing than collecting patents. Once some one finally design working product then those companies step in and sue inventor for money. This is making competition really hard. On other hand it is necessary to consult each idea with group of lawyers just to be sure that you "can" work on it and it is not patented by someone despite fact, that no one has working version of it ...
+Eric Taylor Nope, you can't get a new patent on an old thing, that's kind of the point. The idea is that in exchange for a temporary monopoly the patent is published and when it expires other people can copy it. It hasn't really functioned that way for some time though...
+spudd86 actually even within the 20 years you can use the ideas in the patent, you can even build the whole thing that is described there. the point is you are not allowed to sell that product. private use? no one is interrested
I wonder just how much money the government made on that patent? Government never does anything without someone getting rich off it. Now, I wonder how that building went from being the center of British rail to a hotel? Again, money in the pockets of those meant to serve the best interests of the people.
Watching RUclips Actually, as part of a module I was taking for my course, we had a patent attorney visit and give us a talk about patenting molecules, and he said that whilst both terms are fine, the most commonly used and accepted one is pat-ent, not pay-tent
It so annoying when you get teleported and the camera you're holding is not. They should invent something to prevent this.
+Tim Waardenburg, van You should make one and patent it.
Well, you would have to try to figure out a way to equip it with some sort of proximity detector, and then make that proximity detector exclude the floor because you don't want to teleport that. You could also make teleportion be done by manual selection, allowing for people to select what does get teleported and what doesn't, but an incorrect selection might result in more than you want being teleported, or in a worst case scenario, less, and you lose something off your body.
Kaseda On the other hand, the "proximity detector" solution would also have issues. For example, what if you were standing on an upper floor of a building? You probably wouldn't want to take a chunk of building with you. Or what if you were in the middle of a crowd of people? You might accidentally take a few extra body parts, which probably wouldn't be fun when you got to the other end.
I'd say that, given the computer technology we currently have available, the "human selection" method would probably be best; a human would know what you want to teleport, whereas a computer wouldn't.
Adam Mullarkey Well, just make the proximity relatively small. If you make it, say, 5 times thicker than the space between you and an object you are 'touching,' then if you are standing in a crowd, somebody would have to bump into you at the exact moment you teleport to be taken along with. The same way you would exclude the floor, exclude buildings, bodies of water, etc. The issue with the human selection method, well, is that it would take quite long to select, and if a human makes a mistake, you can kiss goodbye to your limb.
Kaseda Well, if you make it 5 times thicker than the space between you and the object you're holding, then you would only take a fraction of an inch from the surface of the object, unless you're using a system that detects what is part of the same object and teleports the whole object, in which case there would be no chance of a human missing a limb. I agree that it would take longer to select, but at least, when they finished, everything that you wanted to be teleported would be, and everything you didn't, wouldn't.
Announcer: We are sorry to announce that the 14:44 flying saucer to Edinburgh Waverly has been delayed due to the unexpected pickup of Mr Scott.
:D
@@WalnutOne ?
@@hasanmuhammad6651 a smiling face, text based emoji or whatever the preceding, correct term was.
@@psoma_brufd emoticons I believe is the word you're looking for
@@connorjohnson7834 thanks
Tom, as someone who loves language and dialect, I appreciate your making the effort to pronounce the UK Patent Office and the US Patent Office differently, without judging either as "correct".
We need more people like that.
I agree, although I have to wonder if he'd make the same distinction if the proposed spacecraft was to be made of aluminium / aluminum.
Matt Grey, obis
But to be fair, people from USA aren't going to pronounce the UK Patent Office or any other British things in the British way. So this really is something extra.
@@daveh7720 Aluminium is the correct manner, the reason it is Aluminum in America is likely due to a mistake in the marketing since the American inventor or whatever referred to it as Aluminium in all of his notes. (Though the true original term was Aluminum).
True. Time travel was once thought impossible, and yet every night I climb into my time machine and am instantly transported to the next day!
Instantly? For me it takes a while for my time machine to start up.
@@LauraLowe Me too. I keep forgetting to change the insomnia fluid! 😜😜😜🤨🤨😌😔😌😔😌😔🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴
A perpetual motion machine?
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!!!
Entropy or GTFO.
when we started learning thermodynamics, my professor started the lecture by showing us that clip from the simpsons.
British Rail might own the patent to the saucer, but the abduction rays are Mitsubishi. We are preparing a lawsuit in the near future.
You can always rely on Tom for a laugh and the british spirit
This is alien. Tom Scott with me. You give Earth and I give Tom Scott back. Go to moon.
Can we trade for a slightly larger human to experiment on?
Trodoil akaTroy No. Earth or we clone Justin Beiber.
DjGalm Okay okay just please don't clone that Canadian monstrosity!
Ok you have 100 year to build moon.
DjGalm Wooha, calm down, we are all friends here, no need to be jumpy here, slowly put down that clone gun and we can talk through this. Let's not do things we will regret in the future okay?
Interesting THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW (as always)! It was well worth the two hours doing the ridiculous special effects. It added a good giggle to a strange patent...
"It added a good giggle to a strange patent..."
Read "good giggle" as 'google giggle' on the first pass over this comment.
Then I thought, 'Wait, that doesn't make sense. What's a google giggle?' and I reread and saw you said good and I was slightly upset I hadn't come upon a new term or expression.
I'm not sure what Google Giggles would be, but I'd say feel free to use Google Giggle as a new term...Maybe it might would be a good way to describe issues you have with their software. I know many channels which have had irreversible issues thanks to Google. Most of them didn't giggle, but maybe Google did. :D
Google Giggle: When you start to enter an input into a search engine and their auto-suggestions come up with humorous unrelated terms.
Just for giggles, I googled google giggles, and found a page about things about google that makes you giggle, called google giggles. ;)
Eric14492 The wordpress page? justgoogleit?
I looked at the most recent patents through the link in the description, and the top one was simply labeled “A Cure For Cancer”.
Neat!
"But then who uploaded it!" :p
David Lam #illuminatialiensconfirmed
***** He tells his friends his passwords? That doesn't sound like something he'd do :p.
Scotty got beamed up. Or uploaded.
The same people who published Blair Witch Prioject footage.. ;P
I just hope he packed his anti-probing britches :'(
Unfortunately the ability to pass patents without much proofing means that companies can use them as weapons to try to stifle technological progression. You can pass a patent, never produce anything with it, then collect lawsuit fees for anyone who attempts to use your patent illegally.
On the other side of this though, there are companies out there that are pure research and then license out their IP. So they never produce a product but do contribute to technological progression, with patents being one of the tools in their belt for getting paid.
Well shortening patent duration to one year is maybe a bit drastic, but I agree with you that 20 years are too long. Companies who hold patents should make money because they made a good invention and produce good products. Long patent spans cause companys to sort of rest them selfs on their laurels. I think something like two or three years without actually employing your patent and making something out of it. As soon as you launch a product you can get an additional five years. That sound sane to me.
neeneko Yes there are companies that a purely research, but I do not think that this is good concept. If you actually produce something useful out of a good idea you have immediate feedback and first hand experience. You than can combine this with your expertise on the science behind it and make your product even more awesome. Where does that knowledge go when someone bought a licence from a research company? The one actually producing a product is most likely not willing to pass it one to the patent holder.
Firstly, there is a LOT of "proofing" involved in getting a patent granted (at least in the EU/US).
Secondly, you can't sue someone with a patent which isn't valid. So even if you did manage to get it granted somehow, your opponent in court can just demonstrate that it shouldn't have been granted in the first place.
Thirdly (only in the UK), you can't even go around threatening to sue people if those threats are unjust.You will then be liable for a unjust threats proceedings.
Fourthly, there are ways to stop patent trolls. For example, the LOT agreement: www.google.com/patents/licensing/lot/
Invalid patents are not exactley the main problem I see. The problem in my opinion is companies blocking eachothers reasearch/progress by collecting patents for keytechnologies and claiming patents for variations of similar applications. (In the process maybe even buy smaler enterprises that actually do something with the patent and shut it down) That is why I said some who holds a patent must put it to use, or otherwise looses any claim to it.
And as long as I keep reading about Aple sueing Samsung because "the designe looks to similar" or research institutes patenting the contens of genomes or Oracle and Google quarreling over some Java related patents, patent laws are pretty ridiclous to me. Especialy softwar patents, don't get me started on this one :P
Btw. the very existens of this LOT agreement proves that the law system has failed doing its job.
One example that caused some issues was the patenting of the "Marching Cubes" algorithm. This allowed a programmer to make a rough 3D model given a series of sample points as seen in many body scanning software. This had widespread uses and the algorithm itself was not too far beyond common sense. Programmers were not legally allowed to implement it even if they wrote everything from scratch and came up with the idea by chance.
I'm not sure if a system is in place, but it would be nice if people could anti-patent their discoveries. Saying "I have discovered this concept and nobody following me may patent it"
I didn't know you could catch The Flying Scott Man at Marylebone :)
That pun just has layers and layers. Well done :)
MidtownSkyport like shrek?
You dropped your towel!
You *can* patent a perpetual motion machine in the US; you simply *must* provide a working prototype. It's the *only* patent application requires such.
hahaha "the UK PAYtent office and the US PAHtent office"
AndroidDoctorr
I guess Tom really is bilingual. British and American English. :p
@@joelshewmaker3567 :p
Meanwhile, the headquarters of the Dutch rail management company ProRail (like Network Rail) has a flying saucer embedded in its side.
I believe that the Netherlands has a requirement that all public buildings have to be architecturally interesting, so they all have weird whimsies.
TRiG.
+Martijn van de Streek What is it with railway companies and flying saucers?
Actually, that teleport effect was really good. Very reminiscent of the Asgard in Stargate.
you're not only entirely allowed to make it in england, but all over the world! the patent itself constitutes prior art, and because it was filed more than 20 years ago, no other patents could have been granted anywhere else in the world that would prevent you from commercially exploiting this flying saucer in, say, nigeria.
So that is what those Nigerian scam artists are doing with all that money, building nuclear powered flying saucers!
i love these videos please never stop making them.
Tom you are just wonderful with all these things are you able to find. How about doing a video on how you go about your research?
I love this, as I am a rail enthusiast, and I loved the ending.
If they left the camera, wouldn't let leave his clothes as well?
The more important question is: how did this get uploaded to youtube?
aliens are conscientious.
Ahh the dreams you have :-)
No, because Tom Scott doesn't wear clothes, his red shirt and jeans are part of his body
:D
It was actually in BR’s contracts of employment that any intellectual property in anything you developed, whether it related to the railway or not, belonged to BR, which is how BR got their mitts on the flying saucer. There was a similar clause in my 1979 contract with BR.
I wondered if it was something like this. I had similar contract terms with MOD.
Hah, nice effect and great video. I'm always looking forward to these Things You Might Not Know videos. :)
You have to admit it's interesting that someone actually predicted that lasers would be used to create a fusion reaction and control it with magnetic fields so long ago, only for us to be working on things like the Tocamak now.
I knew there was a reason you could get to so many places and not complain about air travel.
That ending was brilliant!
Omg, Tom how could you miss the Saucer behind you! This is proof they made it.
Annnnd now I FINALLY know how to pronounce "Marylebone". That one's been driving me nuts for years!
Good ol' Tom and his enunciation. 😁
Tom, you made me smile with that.
Do some research about Jean Pierre Petit. He is the pioneer in a domain of fluid mechanics called magnetohydrodynamics, the basic idea is to use magnetic fields to change the velocity of a conductive fluid, the process being reversible you can either slow down the fluid, generating electricity, or accelerating it, consuming some. It is through this technology that the US developed hypersonic planes that can fly at mach 10 at high altitude, and actually make leaps out of the atmosphere. They also developed torpedoes that fly underwater at 2000km/h by using this technology combined with a secondary thruster that vaporizes water around the torpedo so that it travels in a bubble of ionized steam. Yeah I know, tinfoil hat stuff right ? Until you read his book and do the back of the envelope calculations yourself. I'll be making a video about this, since the book wasn't translated to English.
This was in the 90's by the way so who knows what they have now, Aurora already being SSTO with the help of a small secondary liquid fueled rocket engine.
I'm not sure about the UK, but in the US you're technically not allowed to patent something that has not been "reduced to practice." I.e. you have to be able to demonstrate that the thing can actually be built. There are plenty of ridiculous patents but that has more to do with incompetence and overwork of the patent examiners rather than the way patent law is supposed to work.
Tom didn't quite finish the story before he was rudely interrupted. After two years of development BR switched to the elastic band version.
Giles, the Express cartoonist would have loved this, Les Dawson would have loved this, Blue Peter would have had one they made earlier out of loo rolls and sticky tape that you could fly in your back garden.
( But BR tested it for viability and said it was currently lost in orbit somewhere in the vicinty of Betelgeuse and deny the rumour it disintegrated in the rain and crash landed in a back garden somewhere in the vicinity of Chorelywood ).
I just watched back the original Tech Dif shows where Chris was called Toast. Aaah, those were fun.
That ending though!
+twealve dread Made me smile.
I guess you could say that SCOTTy was beamed up!
Nicely done, as usual. Thanks
I know I wouldn't trust a British rail spaceship, their train service was bad enough.
Can you IMAGINE how unreliable the replacement bus service would be?
Now I want to see an interview with Charles Osmond Frederick and why he chose that particular design.
We did just achieve laser-ignited fusion ignition last December, so this is more plausible now that it was 8 years ago!
Beam me up, Scotty!
There goes your Effects Budget.... totally worth it.
Laser propulsion is actually a thing, by the way en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion
Oh cool! Tom Scott just got "beamed up by Scotty."
You say patent and I say patent. Let's get this UFO to take off.
haha nice outro there xD
Very clever. I enjoyed that.
I love it. Great ending.
Interesting - another great video matey
"That ran every one of the country's railways"
Not London Underground, and not any of the railways in Northern Ireland. And not the few remaining private industrial or heritage railways. Not the Blackpool Trams. And not other light rail and some newer heavy rail commuter systems that came about in the decades before its demise.
Sorry to be nitpicky ;)
That is patently absurd!
Yes, yes it is. But is it Paytently absurd, or Pahtently absurd?
Mrs Richards: " I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?
The sound effect at the end is reminiscent of the shooting game in Wii Play where you shoot flying saucers (among other things).
Best ending to a RUclips video ever! 😂
Mr. Scott to Enterprise, one to beam up.
Love especially the end.
whoah ! special effects !!!!.... nice vid
laser ignited fusion it may seem far fetched but, The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory an that's what they are doing there now
At least it would have solved the leaves on the line problem.
Chinese government actually granted a perpetual machine patent: it's a electric bike with fans, when you ride it, the fan generator on the bike generates power due to airflow, charging the bike.
except that still wouldn't be perpetual motion...
but you would have to have a superconducting as wires and a 100% efficient fan
+Insertusernamehere No, I don't need none of those, I didn't apply for such a stupid patent.
That sounds like it could be somewhat useful if the fans only deployed when you were using the handbrake. Effectively it would be a bulky air-brake that charged the battery (slightly). Like a really weaksauce version of regenerative braking in hybrid cars.
EebstertheGreat It's even sadder the patent stated that the fans are permanently deployed.
Haha! Tom, you are the best!
i used to stay at the landmark hotel regularly .. it's really nice. too expensive for you lot though.
Listening to this in 2018 and the company, on the point of laser-ignited reactors and magnets deflecting particles for thrust, were actually kind of right
So, inertial confinement fusion? You should visit National Ignition Facility :-)
Worth it for the ending =)
well done sir!
who stole my nuclear-powered laser-ignited flying saucer and kidnapped Tom
Huh. Well, we'll miss ya' Tom. Hope the BR probe (BR-obe?) doesn't mess you up too much.
I for one welcome our new extortionate flying saucer overlords.
I want to know why no one is discussing going back to the Orion project, but build the damn thing in space, and go snag some asteroids for minerals and whatnot. I loves me whatnots. After the thing is hollowed out, you have a great space ship that with Orion could then take you to the stars fairly quickly. And that's with pretty much current tech.
Now Scott's the one being beamed up
Tee hee!
That's a really nice building, btw.
tom? TOM?? TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM?????
Ha! Good one Tom!
Loved it!! :)
subtle British comedy there !
How have I never seen this one before?
Do a video on why Brits drink warm beer or why Americans think that they do.
That is not really worth a video. Try to eat nearly frozen cake or cold wine, or basically anything that is supposed to be consumed at room temperature or hot. It will not taste all that exiting anymore. Same goes with beer. A lot of beer simply does not really taste like anything (talking about mainstream beer brands in Europe, more precisely Germany/Switzerland) at all so it does not matter if you drink it warm or ice cold. While other develop a very ugly taste if they are not properly cooled (like Heineken). These beer brands have adapted to the fact that we refrigerate beer to keep it from spoiling and most people do not have the patience to wait until it has warmed up (or it is simply forbidden to serve warme beer, like here in Switzerland). So it does not matter if it tastes like piss if it is a bit warmer and since it does taste like piss if it is a bit warmer people tend to drink cold beer. Ale and Stout and similar just taste like nothing if you serve them ice cold (much like wine). If you have the patience (or the are permitted) to wait and let it warm up a bit, you are in for quite a surprising taste experience.
I think it's because it's served at room temperature and Americans assume that means warm...
+Hector Maddock-Greene Despite thinking Britain is the coldest place in the universe and they also think that the room is the living room when it means cellar.
I'm gonna patent humans on mars so when they finally achieve it they have to pay me royalties.
A magnetohydrodynamic isn't actually farfetched at all, sure at the time they had nowhere near the material sciences and expertise to make it work, and the stability of saucer designs is actually atrocious without either the rotation or a computer controlled flight system, but with some work I don't think we're a decade away.
IF people work hard on the design. And if its even economical to run transport on then.
‘Beam me up, Tom Scotty!’
Whoa! What happened at the ending? Can someone please explain it to me?
So there would be a Hammersmith-Mars replacement bus service?
Cute ending.
They were always crazy people
For technological advancement I see fit not to allow patents to invention not proven possible for now because may prevent someone else from getting it possible.
I'm British and it's only today that I learned that "Marylebone" is pronounced "Marleybone".
To think, that little "teleportation" effect would have been impossible 30 or 40 years ago. 😊
Personally if you can't build it, I don't think you deserve the ability to patent it. Rarely idea is so unique that you were the only one capable of making it so if you can't produce it you shouldn't be able to sit on the patent.
Some say the flying saucer was delayed due to the wrong kind of space debris
So basically British Rail had more important things to do with its time than actually make the nationalised railway work.
You forget, BR is the entity that gave us such wonderful excuses as "wrong type of snow." Only time I've ever been on a franchised train that got cancelled due to snow is because the doors kept freezing open.
***** *SJ
***** You are probably thinking of this, aren't you? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SJ_AB
if only they had a competitor...
Nice ending. :)
And that's how Star Wars began...
"Scotty at Saucer - power for two people."
I think it should not be possible to patent something when you don't have working prototype. There are dozens for companies which do nothing than collecting patents. Once some one finally design working product then those companies step in and sue inventor for money. This is making competition really hard. On other hand it is necessary to consult each idea with group of lawyers just to be sure that you "can" work on it and it is not patented by someone despite fact, that no one has working version of it ...
But, if the patent has expired, can someone file a new patent with the same idea, or would the new inventor be screwed?
+Eric Taylor Nope, you can't get a new patent on an old thing, that's kind of the point. The idea is that in exchange for a temporary monopoly the patent is published and when it expires other people can copy it.
It hasn't really functioned that way for some time though...
+spudd86
actually even within the 20 years you can use the ideas in the patent, you can even build the whole thing that is described there. the point is you are not allowed to sell that product.
private use? no one is interrested
I wonder just how much money the government made on that patent? Government never does anything without someone getting rich off it.
Now, I wonder how that building went from being the center of British rail to a hotel? Again, money in the pockets of those meant to serve the best interests of the people.
I'd like to see Network Rail try that.
What's up with the pronunciation? I don't think I've ever heard a British person call it a 'paytent' before.
That's how every literate person speaks.
Watching RUclips
Actually, as part of a module I was taking for my course, we had a patent attorney visit and give us a talk about patenting molecules, and he said that whilst both terms are fine, the most commonly used and accepted one is pat-ent, not pay-tent