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@@deadfreightwest5956 An nasty prank to play on an dog is to trow snowballs out on an garden or field with an snow cower. Nasty as the dog will get a bit frustrated so don't carry on doing this. Friend of mine tried to make an returning boomerang, we never found it again after the first throw :) it flew very well but only curved a but and ended up in an forest.
I've only seen one person ever consistently throw a boomerang and have it return. It was oddly impressive, like watching Rain Man do math or a dog play the piano.
Imagine being the first guy with a boomerang that comes back. "This will slow the bugger down" (gives a mighty throw and a few seconds later) "oh sheeeeeet!"
What I learned ... somewhere ... is that boomerangs are great hunting weapons in LARGE flat areas such as the Australian outback; if you hit your target, you walk out and get dinner. If you miss, it comes back to you. The boomerang means hunters don't have to go for a long walk to retrieve their weapon if they miss.
Wow, this episode like so many others was very interesting and informative. Thank you very much for it. I have to say, that the ending of the episode where you spoke about the frisbee containing the ashes that was thrown up on the roof of the building and left there was to me and I bet so many others relatable. That’s the whole point of A frisbee is to not only fly back-and-forth between friends but to ultimately lay on the roof somewhere for all eternity and I think that’s really something and it says something about the man who Chose that got himself. Thanks again Simon for another great video, take care.
Today I found out, some info for you, the hunting purpose of returning boomerangs was seen & documented by early white settlers in Australia & is explained in the book "dark emu". Aboriginal people stretched nets around 100 metres long (and a few metres high) across rivers/lakes to catch ducks. Returning boomerangs were thrown over the top of them during the hunt to keep them down at the net height for capture, while avoiding losing them into the water, or hitting the people in canoes below who were rounding the ducks up into the nets
Im gonna have to call you guys out on your firsbee fact. It was first invented in 1885 when Clint Eastwood discovered that pie tins make pretty good self defense weapons when thrown while defending himself from "Mad Dog" Tannen. This was all pretty well documented in the 3rd part of the documentary series "Back to the Future".
it's perhaps interesting to note that the unwitting act of removing a seemingly errantly thrown frisbee from the roof of a museum is, in this case, tantamount to desecrating Mr. Headrick's grave.
I love the background music on these videos... it makes sound like it's a really important piece of knowledge I'm learning. The kind that'll be crucial later in life for me to know
justinl458 many sold in us don’t actually return. Really good thrower can throw it. Hit an object and it still returns. Plus side if you miss it comes back to you for another try.
@@kingjames4886 most of them are, yeah. They sold one half-decent foam-plastic one I picked up for a nostalgic laugh. It's so light that getting it to come back is an exorcise in futility.
I can't help but wonder how far back in history boomerangs go. Is this a case convergent discovery (the same thing discovered in different places/times but are exactly the same) or is it so old that it could have been carried around the globe as people migrated to new places?
Look for a copy of "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. )As far as sunflowers are concerned, yes them and anything else exposed to sunlight.
As any hunter knows, you don’t hit every time. It always seemed logical that the boomerang was a way to take a shot and not have to chase down your weapon or worse, lose it in tall brush/grass, or perhaps down a cliff/cravace etc.Just my take.
When I was about 5 years old I was at a boomerang demonstration. He had us all lay down at the opposite end of the field. Then he missed the catch. It skidded along the ground and smacked me. I can still hear it. That was 40 years ago.
A returning boomerang would make perfect sense for hunting. If you missed your target it would return to you, meaning youd need to carry less weaponry and could attempt an attack from farther distance without losing your weapon.
Fun fact: A British actor named Jason Salkey, who starred alongside Sean Bean in the marvelous British t.v. series "Sharpe", was an Olympic frisbee competitor. The "Sharpe" series is adapted from the book series by Bernard Cromwell about the British army during the Napoleonic wars, and damnit, it's wonderful! Cheers, y'all :)
I was just thinking of the grandchildren finding an old frisbee in a display case, then throwing it gleefully as older relatives watch. Later when it’s returned to its case the parents tell their kids that they’ve been playing with a frisbee made from their grandfathers body. As the kids run to the restrooms screaming, throwing up and crying, the parents try to console them "But that’s what your grandfather wanted!" Then you have a group of kids who never ever throw another frisbee for the rest of their lives. Then one day at a family gathering they see a fresh crop of kids throwing great...GrandPa around, they watch and smile, knowing that the cycle is about to complete again full circle ⭕️ for yet another generation. 😁
Vanessa Benefico - I believe Simon said that they followed his wishes, adding his ashes to a batch of frisbee plastic. Weird, but also kinda cool in a macabre way.
My Uncle came back to the UK from Oz after he took advantage of the £10 one way emigration deal back in the '70s. He gifted us nephews some boomerangs, hand painted and crafted by aboriginals. It took a while in the local fields with no instructions, but eventually I got the technique down to pat and it was a case of running away from the returning boomerang to avoid injury! lol so much fun! Better than a hoop and spinning top for sure!
While I don't know how long they've done so, I have seen Australian Aboriginals use returning boomerangs as signalling devices while hunting or searching in sparse bush where the other party members were a couple of hundred feet away from them and out of direct sight.
My favorite part of playing frisbee? That doink noise that it makes when the other person misses the catch and it bounces off their arm, side, head, etc.
Tried throwing a returning boomerang, once. Spent most of my time just throwing it straight into the ground. My stepson did manage to get it to start the return, after almost taking out a window. Lol
When I was a kid I bought a boomerang. Very excited on the way home, I finally arrived back and I ran to the yard and threw it. To my surprise, it didn’t come back. Furthermore it got lost and was never found, actually. It’s been 10-15 years since then and to my knowledge my aunt who lives there has never found it. I believe it’s in one of her big hedges. Rip boomerang
Part of my education as a kid growing up in Adelaide was having to make a boomerang that returned. It was part of our woodwork class in high school and all kids did it. Wind direction was very important as with the angles on the blades. We tested them and went back to the wood shop to adjust as necessary. Older kids had larger heavier versions. These when they came back and you needed a thick glove to catch they literally put you on your back catching them. A little scary but tons of fun.
I've been on the receiving end of a largish returning boomerang when I was a kid. Hit me square on the back when i was trying to run away from it. Thrown by one of my parents, no one was really expecting it to return as it was home made by my dad for fun, no precise engineering to get the shape right. Don't think any of us ever tried to catch the thing Would have been a good way to break your hand.Still surprises me how easy it was to throw and have it return.
I bought a boomerang many years ago and tried to learn to throw it so it would return. I even bought a book on the subject. I threw the damn thing about 10,000 times, and went and fetched it 9,999 times. I'm still waiting for it to return on its own from that last throw.
I think I may be a little emotionally unstable because the thought of him wanting to be on a roof is so sweet and cool it made my eyes fill up. I didn’t drop a tear but I was close lol
9:01 “And, indeed, Headrick told his son Daniel that he wanted his ashes to end up in a Frisbee that accidentally lands on someone's roof. In order to honor this request, one of those Frisbees with Headrick’s ashes in it was thrown by his wife Farina onto the roof of the Ed Headrick Memorial Museum…” That doesn’t sound all that accidental, though, is it? The museum site _doesn’t_ say Headrick’s wife threw the Frisbee onto the roof to carry out what Hedrick told his son-maybe precisely because it’s a bit difficult to intentionally carry out something that’s supposed to be accidental. It says it was to fulfill the adage “Old Frisbee players are like old Frisbee's [sic]…They don't die, they just land up on the roof. ” You can, however, _still_ buy one of those Frisbees with Headrick’s ashes in it (“Lines of Headrick Memorial Freestyle Disc”) for only $65 and _maybe_ just tossing it around, you’ll eventually wind up fulfilling what he said he wanted.
It's also worth mentioning that a lethal boomerang isnt something you would want careening back toward you or your buddies. If it can kill at one end of its flight path, it probably can at the other end as well and you really dont want to be trying to catch a deadly flying object with your hand and if you miss and it hits you in the face or chest or arm or whathaveyou, that could be bad. If the wind alters the path it then becomes a deadly or dangerous flying object that may be flying toward an unsuspected person. It might seem that a hunting stick that comes back to you if you miss would be convenient, it also bears the disadvantage that if the path is altered it might actually hit something unintended on the return and be damaged or broken with no return for the investment While this is always a possible with non returning ones, it's more likely with a returning one, because most stick hunting is going to be done from cover and concealment such as brush and trees, INTO a clearing or to the edge of a clearing where an animal may be browsing or grazing or toward a water source where one is drinking, it's being thrown toward open space where there is little that might break the stick or damage it if it strikes something other than the target. Additionally, most hunting boomerangs if you look are really much less symmetrical than returning ones. They tend to have a long arm and a short arm and the short arm is kinda chunky to add some heft and impact. It's kinda a throwing club. Plus mass requires proportionally more lift and mass decreases the maximum speed at which a given person can throw it after a certain point. Lift is generated by three things, energy (speed in this case, supplied by the thrower), geometry, and surface area. So returning boomerangs that are heavy enough to really hunt anything substantial with would be HUGE. As mass goes up surface area must as well to sustain flight. So you have to sacrifice density so that you can get the right mass to surface area ratio to achieve enough lift for the thing to fly while having the terminal energy to be lethal. And it would in no way be stealthy. Imagine someone trying to hunt a small deer with a boomerang nearly the size of themselves!
you're making a LOT of assumptions there based on your limited hunting & boomerang experience aren't you! You need to look at what was hunted & how to understand why they were such a useful & widespread weapon in Australia
@@lilaclizard4504 not really assumptions. Saying that most hunting boomerangs are asymmetrical may have been arguably inaccurate. Boomerangs are a tryp of throwing stick in the overall category there are far more examples of straight sticks than bent ones depending on how you look at things. If you look within throwing sticks that have a curve or imbalance in them compared to just plain straight balanced and well symmetrical, there are far more sticks that have some sort of curve or weight bias at one end. Otherwise my comment was sound as to why we dont see returning hunters. A returning boomerang that is used in hunting would typically be used as a flushing tool, not directly as an impactor. This is supported by the nearly non existence of returning sticks used for impacting prey. It's also supported by the difference in how a impacting stick would be thrown compared to how a returning one would be thrown. It's simply a matter of reason. A returning stick would loose its energy and stop if it hits anything. At best, a glancing strike would destabilize it and cause it to go way off path and you would loose all the benefit of having a returning stick or just having a stick that ends up near or at the point of impact. There could be a case made that someone could use a returning stick for hunting by targeting an animal to be struck on the return path. But, due to the nature of how boomerangs are used and how they perform, this would be exceedingly difficult and not an efficient way to hunt. Not to mention again, the mass needed to successfully incapacitate or kill anything besides the smallest of animals particularly with just an unimproved stick, meaning it's not enhanced with blades or other lethal or injurious bits. This would require a 'rang of tremendous size in respect to its surface area. It's really pretty easy to see why there are hunters and returners. This doesnt mean that there are absolutely no examples or weren't any instances of this happening or being done. But it does explain why we haven't readily found supporting evidence for such. There is a theory that the throwing stick predates the rang. This ostensibly makes some sense. But the theory goes that in improving the throwing stick by such things as using curved sticks, both symmetrically or otherwise and by beveling the edges for increased lethality and to improve flight behavior, when fine adjustments were made to these improved sticks, certain characteristics were observed and then selected for intentionally until returning stick was created. Some might say that this isnt a logical argument because again, returners arent really good for hunting as I've belabored above. But I dont agree that this alone would negate the viability of this developmental path. For two reasons. 1. It kind of reasons backward and supposes that someone who was capable of creating a hunting stick would inherently reason that making it a returning rang would make it suck at hunting. 2. It also supposes that over the entirety of the time over which this was happening and the people involved not one of them would say, hey this isnt really good for killing when you make it do the return thing, but it could have some other uses and it's really pretty fun to throw something to yourself, let's make more of those.
4:45 My father always told us about the time he and his friend Walter were out throwing a boomerang at night. They couldn't see it because it was dark. I'm not sure which one of them threw it, but when it came back, it broke Walt's ankle.
His ashes were put into a bunch of discs. They are rare, my buddy has one. You will get a LOT more for one just at golf course than you would at a pawn shop...
some wings do have air molecules mostly meet back up, that's called Laminar flow. It has lower induced drag, and was/is used in fighters such as the P51
Nice work! I’m a flight instructor, and this is so difficult to explain to people. How do the physics books get it so wrong?! The molecules aren’t moving across the wing and do not need to get to some imaginary point simultaneously!!! The molecules of air are still and would like to remain still, and thus resist change because Newton! More wing surface area forces more molecules on one side to move, whom are resisting change, and this creates a differential pressure. Bless you sir.
Sadly I Google Earth'd the Headrick memorial museum (which is actually at the PDGA International Disc Golf Center in Columbia County, Georgia. There is no Frisbee on the roof :(
Yep. Might be there but the images are too grainy. www.google.com/maps/place/Disc+Golf+Association/@36.9273507,-121.7904594,112m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x808e1a6057c9fde7:0x97c55129b74138ba!2s73+Hangar+Way,+Watsonville,+CA+95076,+USA!3b1!8m2!3d36.9274274!4d-121.7901601!3m4!1s0x0:0xc1df5743342bc817!8m2!3d36.92737!4d-121.7902669
I was always told that returning boomerangs were used by sea-bird hunters so they only had to swim out to retrieve their weapon when they had to swim out to retrieve their prey, thus saving them the hassle of having to retrieve their weapon when they missed.
Working in the quality control / testing department of a boomerang factory must be quite stress-free. A sample didn't to come back? No prob - you already got rid of it.
I learned to throw a hobby boomerang as a pre-teen. I still have it, 30+ years later! However, the instructions and method I used definitely did not make the boomerang fly upward! It just flew in a fairly straight line, followed by a wide arc, almost like a capital D laying flat on the ground. I managed to catch it when it returned too!
I remember trying to throw a boomerang in the backyard of my nursery school. I couldn't get it to come back, so I must have been throwing it incorrectly. I also had to be careful where I threw it so I wouldn't hurt another kid and maybe just didn't have enough space between me and the fence for it to return.
Only a small amount of Boomerangs were capable of returning; but that wasn't the reason they were developed. Boomerangs are essentially "throwing clubs," indigenous Australians used them to hand prey on land (regular animals) or in the air (birds). In general spears were preferred for range for land-based prey but some of the tougher ones were easier to take down with the added club-like mass, especially when the aggressive ones didn't immediately run or charge. The gyroscopic rotation redirects the Boomerang to strike the target bird from an angle that they find hard to observe or predict, especially if they slowly drifted out of the initial path in the first place. Technically the only ones that "come back" are the ones that miss.
Actually it seems to make perfect sense for hunting, in that if it didn’t hit its target it would return to you for another try, rather than having to walk up and retrieve it, thus giving the prey a chance to get away.
George Carlin claimed to be a frisbeetarian in one of his books, even including the bit about getting stuck on a roof. I always assumed it was his own line, and he usually wasn't the kind to take someone else's material as his own, so I can only assume that either 1) the quotes here were actually referencing Carlin but at some point his credit was lost, or 2) he accidentally stole it and thought he came up with it himself (something that happens to songwriters all the time, leading to George Harrison accidentally ripping off "He's So Fine" when writing "My Sweet Lord").
I had a stack of these that I made and wanted to paint them to look like a dead rat, open pair of ✂ and different things that really dont want to catch. They are sht load of fun.i had one that was about 2 foot x 2 foot.when it would go in it's big wide circle, it would look like a plane or something coming in for landing. It got bigger the closer it got. I haven't had the guts to stay in place and try catching it. Thank you for sharing these vidieos
Can you do a story on the “atlatl”? It was a spear that was thrown assisted by a stick that could fly very fast and long, usually for hunting or warfare. They were used in various forms by the Romans, Greeks, Aborigines, and even coastal native tribes in the USA. They have been found in excavated coastal sites here in my state of South Carolina.
It's called a "woomera" in Australia & there's ample information available on them, as they were able to directly compete & even outperform with the guns the British were using against them 230 years ago. They are still used ceremonially today & tourists can learn how to use them at various cultural centres around Australia. They're pretty easy to learn how to use to great effect
By the way, that "myth" about lift was being taught to engineering students as science in the 70s. The numbers worked and airplanes flew so everyone accepted it. What happened is that measurement techniques improved so we could see what was actually happening.
Utter bullshit. I'm an aerospace engineer and lift is taught based on Kutta-Joukowski theories, dating back to 1902 - 1910. It holds true today just as it did back than, and provides a complete prediction of a wing's lift (as long as flow is attached). It is the ONLY analytical theory that can provide a prediction of lift, and that prediction has been verified in countless wind tunnel tests. The "myth" was never taught and was always known to be false by those who actually studied aerodynamics for a professional credit. The explanation given in this video is also not perfect. For example, if you write down Bernoulli's equation and integrate it over a wing - the result is Kutta-Joukowski's circulation theorem.
I have a boomerang, it's a modern one made of plastic. Odd thing is, I bought it as a "toy" about 40 years ago. It actually works quite well, depending on the angle you hold it, it either returns and lands in front of you,or behind. If held incorrectly it will indeed come back and whack you. They move so fast its almost impossible to get out of the way. It is lots of fun. Again, it was a toy when I bought it 40 years ago, I'm 49 now so they basically sold a deadly weapon to a 9 year old. Those were the days.
Some of my friends complained that my chili wasn’t hot enough. So, made “boomerang chili”. My friends never again complained about my chili not being hot enough. And they never take more than two bites of my chili without a short break before the third...one hand on a glass of milk, the other on a hunk of bread...waiting...waiting...waiting.
"What makes a boomerang come back?" *Love* If you love something, set it free. If it returns to you; it's yours. If it doesn't; it never was. Ergo, it is Love which causes a boomerang to come back. =)
How do they decided and who decides how to write something in Chinese. I understand that the characters have to represent the sound of foreign words (in say place names or technology) while conveying relivent meaning.
There are a few old, established systems for transcribing Chinese and Japanese words using the Latin alphabet, such as the Wade-Giles system (developed by Thomas Francis Wade and expanded upon by Herbert A. Giles in the 1800s.) But yes, a history of the development of the Wade-Giles system would be an interesting subject for one of these videos. Or did you mean "how do they transcribe English words into Chinese?" I am actually not sure of how it is done for Chinese, and that would be a fascinating video. But I do know that in Japanese they just use the English word, and try to emulate the English pronunciation as closely as possible using Japanese language word sounds; for example, the English word "Dragon" becomes "Doragon" for Japanese speakers (as in "Doragon Bôru Zetto," which is the native title of Dragon Ball Z using "Japanified" English. While the written "doragon" may look to an English speaker like it should be pronounced as "DOOR-a-gone," the rules of Japanese pronunciation mean that it is actually pronounced as "d'r-A-gon," a pretty close approximation of the English word Dragon.) As I am sure you know, the Japanese language is usually written using a non-alphabetic system of symbols called Kanji, with each symbol representing an entire word or phrase, but there is also another component of the Japanese writing system called Katakana, which is more like the alphabetical systems used in the West in that each symbol represents a single sound rather than an entire word. Katakana is also commonly used to write foreign words which have no native Kanji symbol for them, by simply transcribing the sounds which make up the word (sticking with the same example, "Doragon Bôru Zetto" is commonly written in Katakana symbols beneath the English version of the title.)
Thanks for debunking that myth about how a wing creates lift. Have always wondered the same thing as you stated but just thought I was too dumb to understand
The best use of a returning boomerang is to throw it into a flock of birds. Birds with their hollow bones are easily injured & hey presto, there's dinner. If by chance you fail to hit a bird on your first throw you throw your second & even third boomerangs. As they return you have a greater chance of finding your errant missiles.
throwing them straight is more art then science. you have to get them pretty close to level to have any chance of them going where you want. on the flip side, it's possible to get an ultimate frisbee (they're shaped a bit differently) to come back around so you can catch it like a boomerang, but I was never able to do that myself (and it's not the same as boomerang)
really tho that idea of lift only works at slow speeds... if you go fast enough really all that matters is that the wings deflect air downwards which has the effect of pushing the aircraft upwards. having bulky wings at supersonic speeds would just rip them off.
Buh, Buh, Butt the movies show boomerangs thrown, cutting someone’s throat or even decapitating them, then returning to the throwers hands. That’s why when as a kid every time I threw a boomerang I took off running in a random direction. That was until one time when it followed me and bonked me in my head. Though, no worries, fine I was completely, suffering no effects ill thankfully! 😮
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I was given a "Jupiter Flyer" in 1963. Made by Whamo, this was a Frisbee though that name was not on it. Today I Found Out You missed this one.
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The frisbee on the roof of the museum gave me the feels.
I'm gonna get it!
Look ma, there's a dead guy on the roof.
A boomerang that doesn't come back is called a "Stick" lol
And you can make it come back by adding a dog.
I was wondering why it didn't work.
@@deadfreightwest5956 An nasty prank to play on an dog is to trow snowballs out on an garden or field with an snow cower.
Nasty as the dog will get a bit frustrated so don't carry on doing this.
Friend of mine tried to make an returning boomerang, we never found it again after the first throw :)
it flew very well but only curved a but and ended up in an forest.
I thought they were called boomer-your-wrongs.
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I was confused at first when I saw the boomerang getting bigger after I threw it.
Then it hit me.
Booooo
@@howardbaxter2514 I deserve that.
_Ba dum bum._
Jeff W I’m here all week. Try the veal.
ba dum tssss
I've only seen one person ever consistently throw a boomerang and have it return. It was oddly impressive, like watching Rain Man do math or a dog play the piano.
With a 'proper' returning boomerang yeah. the little three-winged ones are pretty trivial by comparison. bonus if it's wood.
@@DFX2KX it was one of the classic wood ones. Like some Crocodile Dundee shit.
Imagine being the first guy with a boomerang that comes back. "This will slow the bugger down" (gives a mighty throw and a few seconds later) "oh sheeeeeet!"
What I learned ... somewhere ... is that boomerangs are great hunting weapons in LARGE flat areas such as the Australian outback; if you hit your target, you walk out and get dinner. If you miss, it comes back to you. The boomerang means hunters don't have to go for a long walk to retrieve their weapon if they miss.
Wow, this episode like so many others was very interesting and informative. Thank you very much for it. I have to say, that the ending of the episode where you spoke about the frisbee containing the ashes that was thrown up on the roof of the building and left there was to me and I bet so many others relatable. That’s the whole point of A frisbee is to not only fly back-and-forth between friends but to ultimately lay on the roof somewhere for all eternity and I think that’s really something and it says something about the man who Chose that got himself. Thanks again Simon for another great video, take care.
Today I found out, some info for you, the hunting purpose of returning boomerangs was seen & documented by early white settlers in Australia & is explained in the book "dark emu". Aboriginal people stretched nets around 100 metres long (and a few metres high) across rivers/lakes to catch ducks. Returning boomerangs were thrown over the top of them during the hunt to keep them down at the net height for capture, while avoiding losing them into the water, or hitting the people in canoes below who were rounding the ducks up into the nets
Im gonna have to call you guys out on your firsbee fact. It was first invented in 1885 when Clint Eastwood discovered that pie tins make pretty good self defense weapons when thrown while defending himself from "Mad Dog" Tannen. This was all pretty well documented in the 3rd part of the documentary series "Back to the Future".
BOomerangs: Neat. Frisbee: I DID NOT COME HERE FOR THESE FEELS BUT THANK YOU.
I dont always throw things, but when I do it comes back and smashes me in the face
And that is how I broke my nose...
The story at the end was positively heart-warming
Never mind a boomerang not coming back I can't even get a yoyo to return.
Just imagine a boomer-yo! What a nightmare that would be! ;)
Try getting a crazy ex to not return...
I'm sure you can't be that, umm, repulsive.
it's perhaps interesting to note that the unwitting act of removing a seemingly errantly thrown frisbee from the roof of a museum is, in this case, tantamount to desecrating Mr. Headrick's grave.
While interesting, most of this went over my head...
Ba-dum-tss
I'll see myself out.
it hit me in the nuts.
Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.
YESSSS
@@TheVillainInGlasses you're a walking thesaurus.
r/normie
I was always curious, but never remembered to look up.
I love the background music on these videos... it makes sound like it's a really important piece of knowledge I'm learning. The kind that'll be crucial later in life for me to know
I went to Walmart and returned a non returning boomerang and got my money back. Lol
justinl458 many sold in us don’t actually return. Really good thrower can throw it. Hit an object and it still returns. Plus side if you miss it comes back to you for another try.
Boomerang money.
most of them are cheap shit...
@@kingjames4886 most of them are, yeah. They sold one half-decent foam-plastic one I picked up for a nostalgic laugh. It's so light that getting it to come back is an exorcise in futility.
Lol
I can't help but wonder how far back in history boomerangs go. Is this a case convergent discovery (the same thing discovered in different places/times but are exactly the same) or is it so old that it could have been carried around the globe as people migrated to new places?
Maybe a migrant cave dwelling wife would say to her husband, "Honey, don't forget to pack the arrowheads and the boomerangs."
You’re wrong boomerangs were designed for fetching Rubys stunning enemies and activating switches
Do sunflowers really soak up radiation? And what's the best way to rebuild after an apocalypse? You guys are the best!
Look for a copy of "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. )As far as sunflowers are concerned, yes them and anything else exposed to sunlight.
@@christelheadington1136 Hell, why stop at just that book? Those guys wrote some amazing stuff, treat yourself and read as much as you can find
As any hunter knows, you don’t hit every time. It always seemed logical that the boomerang was a way to take a shot and not have to chase down your weapon or worse, lose it in tall brush/grass, or perhaps down a cliff/cravace etc.Just my take.
When I was about 5 years old I was at a boomerang demonstration. He had us all lay down at the opposite end of the field. Then he missed the catch. It skidded along the ground and smacked me. I can still hear it. That was 40 years ago.
Should do a video on the bull whip. It takes skill to use one correctly.
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"That throwing stick stunt of yours has boomeranged on us"
A returning boomerang would make perfect sense for hunting.
If you missed your target it would return to you, meaning youd need to carry less weaponry and could attempt an attack from farther distance without losing your weapon.
It was actually used for duck hunting, flown above them to herd them into nets that weren't that high & that they would otherwise just fly over
7:50 The absolute epitome of “Started From The Bottom Now Here!” 👏🙌
Fun fact: A British actor named Jason Salkey, who starred alongside Sean Bean in the marvelous British t.v. series "Sharpe", was an Olympic frisbee competitor. The "Sharpe" series is adapted from the book series by Bernard Cromwell about the British army during the Napoleonic wars, and damnit, it's wonderful! Cheers, y'all :)
Salkey was a Frisbee champ but Frisbee has never been an Olympic event.
@@goldwinger5434 Oh. Oops. Thanks for the correction! I guess I just remembered incorrectly about this. Cheers!
@@kristinradams7109 He many not have been an Olympian but being a European Frisbee champion is still pretty impressive.
I was just thinking of the grandchildren finding an old frisbee in a display case, then throwing it gleefully as older relatives watch. Later when it’s returned to its case the parents tell their kids that they’ve been playing with a frisbee made from their grandfathers body. As the kids run to the restrooms screaming, throwing up and crying, the parents try to console them "But that’s what your grandfather wanted!" Then you have a group of kids who never ever throw another frisbee for the rest of their lives. Then one day at a family gathering they see a fresh crop of kids throwing great...GrandPa around, they watch and smile, knowing that the cycle is about to complete again full circle ⭕️ for yet another generation. 😁
That's crazy! How exactly were the remains incorporated into the frisbee's construction?
Vanessa Benefico - I believe Simon said that they followed his wishes, adding his ashes to a batch of frisbee plastic. Weird, but also kinda cool in a macabre way.
My Uncle came back to the UK from Oz after he took advantage of the £10 one way emigration deal back in the '70s. He gifted us nephews some boomerangs, hand painted and crafted by aboriginals. It took a while in the local fields with no instructions, but eventually I got the technique down to pat and it was a case of running away from the returning boomerang to avoid injury! lol so much fun! Better than a hoop and spinning top for sure!
While I don't know how long they've done so, I have seen Australian Aboriginals use returning boomerangs as signalling devices while hunting or searching in sparse bush where the other party members were a couple of hundred feet away from them and out of direct sight.
I’d heard blurbs about the Frisbee story, but that extra bit was super touching! I hope his frisbee is still up there!
Wham-O was one of the nuttiest companies ever.
My favorite part of playing frisbee? That doink noise that it makes when the other person misses the catch and it bounces off their arm, side, head, etc.
Tried throwing a returning boomerang, once. Spent most of my time just throwing it straight into the ground. My stepson did manage to get it to start the return, after almost taking out a window. Lol
Yeah, I never could get it to work, either.
When I was a kid I bought a boomerang. Very excited on the way home, I finally arrived back and I ran to the yard and threw it. To my surprise, it didn’t come back. Furthermore it got lost and was never found, actually. It’s been 10-15 years since then and to my knowledge my aunt who lives there has never found it. I believe it’s in one of her big hedges. Rip boomerang
Mine came back half way and fell into the muddy bog which I called my small pond some 20+ years ago. RIP boomerang.
"Oh no! It's comming back this way!"
Part of my education as a kid growing up in Adelaide was having to make a boomerang that returned. It was part of our woodwork class in high school and all kids did it. Wind direction was very important as with the angles on the blades. We tested them and went back to the wood shop to adjust as necessary. Older kids had larger heavier versions. These when they came back and you needed a thick glove to catch they literally put you on your back catching them. A little scary but tons of fun.
The best boomerangs were those foam Nerf boomerangs back in the '80's with 3 wings.
They had a 4 winger called a roomerang which had less than a 10 foot return
if you wanted to learn how to throw one, those where a good way to learn. They where pretty forgiving about technique. They still sell them, too.
@@DFX2KX I didnt realize they were still for sale.
I've been on the receiving end of a largish returning boomerang when I was a kid. Hit me square on the back when i was trying to run away from it. Thrown by one of my parents, no one was really expecting it to return as it was home made by my dad for fun, no precise engineering to get the shape right. Don't think any of us ever tried to catch the thing Would have been a good way to break your hand.Still surprises me how easy it was to throw and have it return.
I bought a boomerang many years ago and tried to learn to throw it so it would return. I even bought a book on the subject. I threw the damn thing about 10,000 times, and went and fetched it 9,999 times. I'm still waiting for it to return on its own from that last throw.
King Tut had a whole ass collection of boomerangs? THATS the kind of history facts I want to hear!
But if it doesn't hit it's target, it'll come back so u can have another go. It's genius.
Thrown correctly, a Frisbie will return back to the thrower. You can also 'skip' them, but only for 1 skip. Good video, thank you!
I think I may be a little emotionally unstable because the thought of him wanting to be on a roof is so sweet and cool it made my eyes fill up. I didn’t drop a tear but I was close lol
Would like to see a video about how pet food came about, and when and how they discovered it or created it knowing pets would eat it etc
This is my new favorite TIFO, and Ed Headrick is my new hero. 😄🏆
9:01 “And, indeed, Headrick told his son Daniel that he wanted his ashes to end up in a Frisbee that accidentally lands on someone's roof. In order to honor this request, one of those Frisbees with Headrick’s ashes in it was thrown by his wife Farina onto the roof of the Ed Headrick Memorial Museum…”
That doesn’t sound all that accidental, though, is it?
The museum site _doesn’t_ say Headrick’s wife threw the Frisbee onto the roof to carry out what Hedrick told his son-maybe precisely because it’s a bit difficult to intentionally carry out something that’s supposed to be accidental. It says it was to fulfill the adage “Old Frisbee players are like old Frisbee's [sic]…They don't die, they just land up on the roof. ”
You can, however, _still_ buy one of those Frisbees with Headrick’s ashes in it (“Lines of Headrick Memorial Freestyle Disc”) for only $65 and _maybe_ just tossing it around, you’ll eventually wind up fulfilling what he said he wanted.
It's also worth mentioning that a lethal boomerang isnt something you would want careening back toward you or your buddies. If it can kill at one end of its flight path, it probably can at the other end as well and you really dont want to be trying to catch a deadly flying object with your hand and if you miss and it hits you in the face or chest or arm or whathaveyou, that could be bad. If the wind alters the path it then becomes a deadly or dangerous flying object that may be flying toward an unsuspected person. It might seem that a hunting stick that comes back to you if you miss would be convenient, it also bears the disadvantage that if the path is altered it might actually hit something unintended on the return and be damaged or broken with no return for the investment While this is always a possible with non returning ones, it's more likely with a returning one, because most stick hunting is going to be done from cover and concealment such as brush and trees, INTO a clearing or to the edge of a clearing where an animal may be browsing or grazing or toward a water source where one is drinking, it's being thrown toward open space where there is little that might break the stick or damage it if it strikes something other than the target.
Additionally, most hunting boomerangs if you look are really much less symmetrical than returning ones. They tend to have a long arm and a short arm and the short arm is kinda chunky to add some heft and impact. It's kinda a throwing club.
Plus mass requires proportionally more lift and mass decreases the maximum speed at which a given person can throw it after a certain point. Lift is generated by three things, energy (speed in this case, supplied by the thrower), geometry, and surface area.
So returning boomerangs that are heavy enough to really hunt anything substantial with would be HUGE. As mass goes up surface area must as well to sustain flight. So you have to sacrifice density so that you can get the right mass to surface area ratio to achieve enough lift for the thing to fly while having the terminal energy to be lethal. And it would in no way be stealthy. Imagine someone trying to hunt a small deer with a boomerang nearly the size of themselves!
you're making a LOT of assumptions there based on your limited hunting & boomerang experience aren't you! You need to look at what was hunted & how to understand why they were such a useful & widespread weapon in Australia
@@lilaclizard4504 not really assumptions. Saying that most hunting boomerangs are asymmetrical may have been arguably inaccurate. Boomerangs are a tryp of throwing stick in the overall category there are far more examples of straight sticks than bent ones depending on how you look at things. If you look within throwing sticks that have a curve or imbalance in them compared to just plain straight balanced and well symmetrical, there are far more sticks that have some sort of curve or weight bias at one end.
Otherwise my comment was sound as to why we dont see returning hunters. A returning boomerang that is used in hunting would typically be used as a flushing tool, not directly as an impactor. This is supported by the nearly non existence of returning sticks used for impacting prey. It's also supported by the difference in how a impacting stick would be thrown compared to how a returning one would be thrown.
It's simply a matter of reason. A returning stick would loose its energy and stop if it hits anything. At best, a glancing strike would destabilize it and cause it to go way off path and you would loose all the benefit of having a returning stick or just having a stick that ends up near or at the point of impact.
There could be a case made that someone could use a returning stick for hunting by targeting an animal to be struck on the return path. But, due to the nature of how boomerangs are used and how they perform, this would be exceedingly difficult and not an efficient way to hunt. Not to mention again, the mass needed to successfully incapacitate or kill anything besides the smallest of animals particularly with just an unimproved stick, meaning it's not enhanced with blades or other lethal or injurious bits. This would require a 'rang of tremendous size in respect to its surface area. It's really pretty easy to see why there are hunters and returners. This doesnt mean that there are absolutely no examples or weren't any instances of this happening or being done. But it does explain why we haven't readily found supporting evidence for such.
There is a theory that the throwing stick predates the rang. This ostensibly makes some sense.
But the theory goes that in improving the throwing stick by such things as using curved sticks, both symmetrically or otherwise and by beveling the edges for increased lethality and to improve flight behavior, when fine adjustments were made to these improved sticks, certain characteristics were observed and then selected for intentionally until returning stick was created.
Some might say that this isnt a logical argument because again, returners arent really good for hunting as I've belabored above.
But I dont agree that this alone would negate the viability of this developmental path.
For two reasons.
1. It kind of reasons backward and supposes that someone who was capable of creating a hunting stick would inherently reason that making it a returning rang would make it suck at hunting.
2. It also supposes that over the entirety of the time over which this was happening and the people involved not one of them would say, hey this isnt really good for killing when you make it do the return thing, but it could have some other uses and it's really pretty fun to throw something to yourself, let's make more of those.
4:45 My father always told us about the time he and his friend Walter were out throwing a boomerang at night. They couldn't see it because it was dark. I'm not sure which one of them threw it, but when it came back, it broke Walt's ankle.
"presumably remains 'till this very day" well, not anymore. Someone will take it and sell it on pawn store.
His ashes were put into a bunch of discs. They are rare, my buddy has one. You will get a LOT more for one just at golf course than you would at a pawn shop...
Well what he failed to mention is it matters what angel you throw the boomerang into the wind, matters a lot.
The grainy feeling you get when you cut into some plastics is not really glass fiber reinforcement, it's the Ashes of dead people 😂
some wings do have air molecules mostly meet back up, that's called Laminar flow. It has lower induced drag, and was/is used in fighters such as the P51
Nice work! I’m a flight instructor, and this is so difficult to explain to people. How do the physics books get it so wrong?! The molecules aren’t moving across the wing and do not need to get to some imaginary point simultaneously!!! The molecules of air are still and would like to remain still, and thus resist change because Newton! More wing surface area forces more molecules on one side to move, whom are resisting change, and this creates a differential pressure. Bless you sir.
Sadly I Google Earth'd the Headrick memorial museum (which is actually at the PDGA International Disc Golf Center in Columbia County, Georgia. There is no Frisbee on the roof :(
Yep. Might be there but the images are too grainy.
www.google.com/maps/place/Disc+Golf+Association/@36.9273507,-121.7904594,112m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x808e1a6057c9fde7:0x97c55129b74138ba!2s73+Hangar+Way,+Watsonville,+CA+95076,+USA!3b1!8m2!3d36.9274274!4d-121.7901601!3m4!1s0x0:0xc1df5743342bc817!8m2!3d36.92737!4d-121.7902669
I was always told that returning boomerangs were used by sea-bird hunters so they only had to swim out to retrieve their weapon when they had to swim out to retrieve their prey, thus saving them the hassle of having to retrieve their weapon when they missed.
Working in the quality control / testing department of a boomerang factory must be quite stress-free. A sample didn't to come back? No prob - you already got rid of it.
I learned to throw a hobby boomerang as a pre-teen. I still have it, 30+ years later! However, the instructions and method I used definitely did not make the boomerang fly upward! It just flew in a fairly straight line, followed by a wide arc, almost like a capital D laying flat on the ground. I managed to catch it when it returned too!
I remember trying to throw a boomerang in the backyard of my nursery school. I couldn't get it to come back, so I must have been throwing it incorrectly. I also had to be careful where I threw it so I wouldn't hurt another kid and maybe just didn't have enough space between me and the fence for it to return.
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
A stick.
edmund blackadder coc or a hanger.
Only a small amount of Boomerangs were capable of returning; but that wasn't the reason they were developed.
Boomerangs are essentially "throwing clubs," indigenous Australians used them to hand prey on land (regular animals) or in the air (birds).
In general spears were preferred for range for land-based prey but some of the tougher ones were easier to take down with the added club-like mass, especially when the aggressive ones didn't immediately run or charge.
The gyroscopic rotation redirects the Boomerang to strike the target bird from an angle that they find hard to observe or predict, especially if they slowly drifted out of the initial path in the first place.
Technically the only ones that "come back" are the ones that miss.
Has there ever been a real life instance of someone being accused of a crime they didn't commit and having to clear their name like in The Fugitive?
Actually it seems to make perfect sense for hunting, in that if it didn’t hit its target it would return to you for another try, rather than having to walk up and retrieve it, thus giving the prey a chance to get away.
things don't always come back when I throw them...
but when they do they're a boomerang.
George Carlin claimed to be a frisbeetarian in one of his books, even including the bit about getting stuck on a roof. I always assumed it was his own line, and he usually wasn't the kind to take someone else's material as his own, so I can only assume that either 1) the quotes here were actually referencing Carlin but at some point his credit was lost, or 2) he accidentally stole it and thought he came up with it himself (something that happens to songwriters all the time, leading to George Harrison accidentally ripping off "He's So Fine" when writing "My Sweet Lord").
I had a stack of these that I made and wanted to paint them to look like a dead rat, open pair of ✂ and different things that really dont want to catch. They are sht load of fun.i had one that was about 2 foot x 2 foot.when it would go in it's big wide circle, it would look like a plane or something coming in for landing. It got bigger the closer it got. I haven't had the guts to stay in place and try catching it.
Thank you for sharing these vidieos
Can you do a story on the “atlatl”? It was a spear that was thrown assisted by a stick that could fly very fast and long, usually for hunting or warfare. They were used in various forms by the Romans, Greeks, Aborigines, and even coastal native tribes in the USA. They have been found in excavated coastal sites here in my state of South Carolina.
It's called a "woomera" in Australia & there's ample information available on them, as they were able to directly compete & even outperform with the guns the British were using against them 230 years ago. They are still used ceremonially today & tourists can learn how to use them at various cultural centres around Australia. They're pretty easy to learn how to use to great effect
I liked the frisbee section.
By the way, that "myth" about lift was being taught to engineering students as science in the 70s. The numbers worked and airplanes flew so everyone accepted it. What happened is that measurement techniques improved so we could see what was actually happening.
Utter bullshit. I'm an aerospace engineer and lift is taught based on Kutta-Joukowski theories, dating back to 1902 - 1910. It holds true today just as it did back than, and provides a complete prediction of a wing's lift (as long as flow is attached). It is the ONLY analytical theory that can provide a prediction of lift, and that prediction has been verified in countless wind tunnel tests. The "myth" was never taught and was always known to be false by those who actually studied aerodynamics for a professional credit.
The explanation given in this video is also not perfect. For example, if you write down Bernoulli's equation and integrate it over a wing - the result is Kutta-Joukowski's circulation theorem.
I was wondering if you were going to talk about disc golfing. I'm a semi-pro disc golfer myself. I'm glad steady Eddy got a shout out. Great vid.
Millennial: *throws boomerang
Boomerang: *doesn't come back
Millennial: "ok boomer"
Damn millenials with there cultural apropreatoin, that meme belongs to genZ! Kek
@@KageKatze
Damn gen Z and their terrible spelling.
@@Grabbagar670 Ok Boomer
Edit: the spellings not the problem BTW
you do know that the boomer generation isn't named after boomerangs; right ?
@@deaconknight9658 r/woooosh
getting hit with your own boomerang is what i call getting more bang for your buck lol
I have a boomerang, it's a modern one made of plastic. Odd thing is, I bought it as a "toy" about 40 years ago. It actually works quite well, depending on the angle you hold it, it either returns and lands in front of you,or behind. If held incorrectly it will indeed come back and whack you. They move so fast its almost impossible to get out of the way. It is lots of fun. Again, it was a toy when I bought it 40 years ago, I'm 49 now so they basically sold a deadly weapon to a 9 year old. Those were the days.
When I was in kindergarten, we had metal saws, hammers, and nails to play with. Nerf toys hadn't been created yet.
Going by your picture I doubt that.
@@coreymcconnell1908 When do you think the picture was taken?
Some of my friends complained that my chili wasn’t hot enough. So, made “boomerang chili”.
My friends never again complained about my chili not being hot enough.
And they never take more than two bites of my chili without a short break before the third...one hand on a glass of milk, the other on a hunk of bread...waiting...waiting...waiting.
"What makes a boomerang come back?"
*Love*
If you love something, set it free. If it returns to you; it's yours. If it doesn't; it never was. Ergo, it is Love which causes a boomerang to come back. =)
Oh, God, now someone is going to try to steal that Frisbee.
How do they decided and who decides how to write something in Chinese. I understand that the characters have to represent the sound of foreign words (in say place names or technology) while conveying relivent meaning.
There are a few old, established systems for transcribing Chinese and Japanese words using the Latin alphabet, such as the Wade-Giles system (developed by Thomas Francis Wade and expanded upon by Herbert A. Giles in the 1800s.) But yes, a history of the development of the Wade-Giles system would be an interesting subject for one of these videos.
Or did you mean "how do they transcribe English words into Chinese?" I am actually not sure of how it is done for Chinese, and that would be a fascinating video. But I do know that in Japanese they just use the English word, and try to emulate the English pronunciation as closely as possible using Japanese language word sounds; for example, the English word "Dragon" becomes "Doragon" for Japanese speakers (as in "Doragon Bôru Zetto," which is the native title of Dragon Ball Z using "Japanified" English. While the written "doragon" may look to an English speaker like it should be pronounced as "DOOR-a-gone," the rules of Japanese pronunciation mean that it is actually pronounced as "d'r-A-gon," a pretty close approximation of the English word Dragon.)
As I am sure you know, the Japanese language is usually written using a non-alphabetic system of symbols called Kanji, with each symbol representing an entire word or phrase, but there is also another component of the Japanese writing system called Katakana, which is more like the alphabetical systems used in the West in that each symbol represents a single sound rather than an entire word. Katakana is also commonly used to write foreign words which have no native Kanji symbol for them, by simply transcribing the sounds which make up the word (sticking with the same example, "Doragon Bôru Zetto" is commonly written in Katakana symbols beneath the English version of the title.)
@@AaronLitz Wow! That's super interesting. I'd always wondered how the symbol system worked! Very comprehensive explanation.
You forgot Hiragana.
He needs to be in movies
Thank you
that was a great feel good story
Thanks for debunking that myth about how a wing creates lift. Have always wondered the same thing as you stated but just thought I was too dumb to understand
The best use of a returning boomerang is to throw it into a flock of birds. Birds with their hollow bones are easily injured & hey presto, there's dinner. If by chance you fail to hit a bird on your first throw you throw your second & even third boomerangs. As they return you have a greater chance of finding your errant missiles.
Everybody knows that the frisbee wasn’t invented after watching Clint Eastwood throw a pie plate at Mad Dog Tannen
Far out
Where is the brick wall from the end, and are the old anchors, or the camera out of level ?
What is the most pieces of cutlery that could be laid out at a single meal, and what would they all be used for?
In salt lake City we have a disc golf course named after Frederick Morrison as he was a Utah local
The guy knew how to go.
I think they were used for practice in throwing the boomerangs used in hunting...
Boomerangs are just clubs carved into the shape of wing blades.
guns are just tubes that shoot swords.
The boomerang is specifically Australia but similar devices existed in other areas
Frisbee Pie Company in Bridgeport, CT where the name came from.
Everytime I throw a Frisbee, it turns into a boomerang and never makes it to the intended recipient.
throwing them straight is more art then science. you have to get them pretty close to level to have any chance of them going where you want.
on the flip side, it's possible to get an ultimate frisbee (they're shaped a bit differently) to come back around so you can catch it like a boomerang, but I was never able to do that myself (and it's not the same as boomerang)
really tho that idea of lift only works at slow speeds... if you go fast enough really all that matters is that the wings deflect air downwards which has the effect of pushing the aircraft upwards. having bulky wings at supersonic speeds would just rip them off.
OK, boomerang
I used to do this with my sports cap all the time. I would throw it away from me up on an angle and it would come back to me.
My buddy just scored his 4th Ace in 8 years of disc-golfing, today, with his Hedrick disc. :)
isn't that convenient they found a picture of a pygmy with a shield covering his pen... wait that's not a shield!!
Buh, Buh, Butt the movies show boomerangs thrown, cutting someone’s throat or even decapitating them, then returning to the throwers hands. That’s why when as a kid every time I threw a boomerang I took off running in a random direction. That was until one time when it followed me and bonked me in my head. Though, no worries, fine I was completely, suffering no effects ill thankfully! 😮
I'm not much of a video liker, but you definitely got a like for the Frisbee bonus facts. 🥏🏠🤷♂️
Bonus Fact: the US Navy spent four years and $375,000 tossing Frisbees off a 1,000‐foot cliff in Utah to research their possible military uses.
only in America!