Having jumped solo, I agree. Note to anyone considering parachuting - TIGHTEN YOUR GROIN STRAPS!!! Any movement or slippage of those straps WILL shear skin when your chute suddenly slows your descent.
@@Chuckf66 My main complaint from my jump was a crap pair of goggles. They weren't sealed to my face so when I entered freefall the wind made my eyes fill up with tears. Imagine falling towards the ground at terminal velocity and you can't see anything.
That CANT be right... terminal velocity is about 120 mph but you dont come to a full stop when you open your chute. Small planes usually go about 140 mph. So you're going from 0 to about 140 instead of 120 to more than 0
@@joecamel2155 its more than just the relative velocities though, you also have to factor in the geometry. When deploying a parachute you are falling straight down and the chute acts in direct opposition. When you're picked up by a skyhook you're at the end of several hundred feet of line that is perpendicular to the direction of travel of the plane. When the plane grabs the line it doesn't pull you straight up or straight across. It pulls the top of the line across but the person at the bottom is pulled across AND swings up into the air. This combination greatly reduces the impact of the pickup. Imagine jumping from a bridge with 50 feet of rope attached. Where would you like the the other end to be attached? The bridge you jumped from for a free fall and a snap? Or would you prefer attached another bridge 50 feet away so gently swing down? That's the difference between parachute and skyhook.
Thanks for the laughter your comment just gave me. I have been in such a situation, willing the ground to swallow me but I would have quite happily been pulled off the ground at eyewatering speed. It must be quite something though and I'm sure part of your lunch must remain on the ground with your will to live, hopes for a better future and your left shoe and sock.
Interesting that the inventor of the lie detector also invented Wonder Woman, who has a lasso of truth. He essentially invented the lie detector twice 😂
YESSSS! At this point I have rewatched part one far too many times for my own good (although I am not sure if one can say that they have watched too much QI content - it's just too good!)
The way clinching your sphincter works is that, you clench when asked the question, then release when answering. It causes an increase in blood pressure, then a release... creating a measurable pattern that fools the device. They now have a sensor to see if you're doing that as a method for defeating the machine.
@@pinback2504 Nope. The Dark Knight came out in 2008 and The Dark Knight Rises came out in 2012. The Skyhook was in The Dark Knight (2008) and not the The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
@@Beans360 hot damn you're right. this whole time i would've put money on Batman begins being 2008 and Dark knight being 2012. I'm getting old. fair play!
@@zbr76 why bother making that comment? if you dont like it, dont watch it, why bother being negative? my comment was a nice positive comment and you had to come in and give your smarmy response...
@@BenersantheBread I mean they also have a PAL system where instead of two keys being used simultaneously it's one key being used three times in a row, so that's par for the course really
I had to have a quick check from Alan's question, apparently there was an MI 1 etc, all the way through MI 19 - though interestingly MI 13 and MI 18 have never been used. Or they are in use and we'll just never know what they're used for. Most have been deactivated or amalgamated into MIs 5 and 6.
Barry Nelson was in The Shining. He played Stuart Ullman the general manager of the Overlook hotel. He told Jack about what Grady did to his family and himself.
I've been reading some Golden Age Wonder Woman stories lately that were written by Charles Moulton, the pen name of Dr. William Moulton Marston, and WW's lasso compels the person wrapped in it to do as the person holding the lasso says. Mostly, WW uses it to get the truth out of the person on the other end. It wasn't until the 1980s when it specifically became the Lasso of Truth.
WW2, people stranded in New Guinea were dropped a set of kit which folded out and roped down so that an aircraft might hook a rope and sling them onboard. So many who learned of this much later assumed they were witnising it's introduction, so that I have learned of its first being used at least every decade since.
As a Bond fan, I actually knew that last answer, and I have an even better Bond question. Who has played most often in an authorised dramatic presentation? Anyone like to guess?
@@gryndyl If I had the QI Klaxon, it would be going off right now! That's the one most people would say. However, I was rather cagey in the question. I said Dramatic Presentation, rather than Film. While Moore has played Bond the most on Film on 7 films with Connery on 6 +1, there's been a series of Radio Play adaptations of the original Fleming Novels done for the BBC here in the UK. They've done 9 of them since 2008, all starring Toby Stephens as Bond. (Yes, the Toby Stephens who played Gustav Graves in DAD). They're really good & faithful adaptations of the original novels, and most of them are available here on RUclips if you want to find them! There's also a 1990 radio version of You Only Live Twice with Michael Jayston as Bond that's worth hunting out.
@@fearlessfred67 I've always wished they would film exactly from the books, with respect to period too. So much better than the "blockbusters" they've churned out. They could film at a fraction of the budgets, and people who have only seen the films wouldn't recognise the stories. The ITV Agatha Christie novels are well produced and cast, something along those lines with 50s and 60s styles.
bone may have been broken in the crash, or he might have cut through the knee joint. There are also plenty of pen knives with saws (at least there are now)
It's at the end of Thunderball, but yeah. I'm disappointed none of them knew, since they were talking about spies and whatnot; even the QI Elves didn't put it on the cards.
I suspect what happened to MI 1, 2, 3, and 4 is the same as happened to Seal Team 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; they never existed and the naming was to make the Russians believe there were more of them out there. You can read about it in the XKCD blog about Twitter's lifetime, which mentions the German tank problem. The Nazis numbered the gear boxes of their tanks incrementally from 1 at the start of a production cycle, and because of that the Allies were able to use statistics to make an accurate and precise estimation of how many tanks were deployed in Normandy. The main take away the Allies took was to not do this themselves, but why stop there? Let's troll the Soviets by makig them think we're this stupid.
No Military Intelligence 1-19 all existed with very specific purposes during both world wars. Most have now been subsumed into other branches or just disbanded. 5 and 6 are the only ones still remaining although MI1b is technically now GCHQ.
Not wanting to be too picky, but if the first person to play James Bond played someone that wasn't called James Bond, he wasn't really the first person to play James Bond now was he?
Your right leg I like. I've got nothing against your right leg. Unfortunately, neither have you. You fall down on the left. I have heard that Ian Fleming named James Bond after a church in Toronto.
The skyhook looks crazy, but the physics means it's actually less shock than opening a parachute
Having jumped solo, I agree. Note to anyone considering parachuting - TIGHTEN YOUR GROIN STRAPS!!! Any movement or slippage of those straps WILL shear skin when your chute suddenly slows your descent.
@@Chuckf66 My main complaint from my jump was a crap pair of goggles. They weren't sealed to my face so when I entered freefall the wind made my eyes fill up with tears.
Imagine falling towards the ground at terminal velocity and you can't see anything.
Wow, that’s really informative.
Thanks, I had no idea.
That CANT be right... terminal velocity is about 120 mph but you dont come to a full stop when you open your chute. Small planes usually go about 140 mph. So you're going from 0 to about 140 instead of 120 to more than 0
@@joecamel2155 its more than just the relative velocities though, you also have to factor in the geometry. When deploying a parachute you are falling straight down and the chute acts in direct opposition. When you're picked up by a skyhook you're at the end of several hundred feet of line that is perpendicular to the direction of travel of the plane. When the plane grabs the line it doesn't pull you straight up or straight across. It pulls the top of the line across but the person at the bottom is pulled across AND swings up into the air. This combination greatly reduces the impact of the pickup.
Imagine jumping from a bridge with 50 feet of rope attached. Where would you like the the other end to be attached? The bridge you jumped from for a free fall and a snap? Or would you prefer attached another bridge 50 feet away so gently swing down? That's the difference between parachute and skyhook.
Stephen Fry is just amazing. He is highly entertaining , and I learn something every time he speaks.
Stephen’s American accent delights me every time.
Have you heard his Australian accent tho... a delight.
Your profile photo is very similar to my own. Looking up at storm clouds through hazel woods. Curious.
Nic,K M Ha! That is odd. I took this picture in my back garden. We have lovely sunsets here in Texas.
@@sophiaonearth6347 It's very nice indeed. I took my picture in Hatfield forest UK
@@nickm3861 this is such a wholesome exchange. and lovely pics guys.
Yeah the skyhook looks frightening but let's be honest: We've all been in a situation so awkward we would have rather been shot away from the spot.
Thanks for the laughter your comment just gave me.
I have been in such a situation, willing the ground to swallow me but I would have quite happily been pulled off the ground at eyewatering speed.
It must be quite something though and I'm sure part of your lunch must remain on the ground with your will to live, hopes for a better future and your left shoe and sock.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Still better than Ryanair
Songbird i do not know you but i think i love you! comment of the year!
@@bmxyo11 Thank you very much!
Yes more. Can't get enough of these.
Interesting that the inventor of the lie detector also invented Wonder Woman, who has a lasso of truth. He essentially invented the lie detector twice 😂
His wife also demanded she'd be a woman
He also had two wives!
It's not a F***ING lie detector...
@@Snoopydoop Well, technically it is. Trying to say something that isn't true made the rope heat up, which could quickly get quite painful.
@@linusdn2777 It'd be pretty odd if Wonder Woman was a bloke 😂
Stephen would give a million points to Allan for guessing the parachute. I miss him
He's not dead, just moved on.
Do you know who invented the polygraph machine?
Alan: Er...Poly Graph herself
A remnant of sanity in a perilous world.
Love QI.
When he asked about the wooden leg I could only think, "A wooden leg named Smith?"
YESSSS! At this point I have rewatched part one far too many times for my own good (although I am not sure if one can say that they have watched too much QI content - it's just too good!)
The way clinching your sphincter works is that, you clench when asked the question, then release when answering. It causes an increase in blood pressure, then a release... creating a measurable pattern that fools the device. They now have a sensor to see if you're doing that as a method for defeating the machine.
"Boss! You're gunna Fulton him?"
Literally playing that game as I watch. Interesting to know that it is, to some extent, real.
This is Pequod arriving at LZ
The people who make these videos are the best. They give the people what they want
‘No. No. Stop it at once. No’
What a marvellously Stephen Fryish thing to say
That skyhook looks so awesome! must feel incredible to experience something like that, and think of the view when you're up in the air.
The sudden g-force might break your back.
@@simontay4851 I've tried one - it's fun and no broken bones
@@Trek001 must've been a hell of a fucking fright though
@@elhomo6406 It was... unnerving
Batman lived after using it
I can't believe no one mentioned that they used a Skyhook in The Dark Knight
I don't think that movie existed when this was aired. unless you just meant people in the comments
@@lmm2103 it was. The Dark Knight came out in 2008 and Sandy Toksvig became the presenter in 2016.
@@Beans360 2012, but your point stands.
@@pinback2504 Nope. The Dark Knight came out in 2008 and The Dark Knight Rises came out in 2012. The Skyhook was in The Dark Knight (2008) and not the The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
@@Beans360 hot damn you're right. this whole time i would've put money on Batman begins being 2008 and Dark knight being 2012. I'm getting old. fair play!
surprise no one made a “C-men” joke with Cummings
I was so sure Alan would say it, instead I was left disappointed.
Just like seaman stains from Captain Pugwash
I love it when Fry does his American accent
The polygraph was the whole point of Wonder Woman's lasso of truth
Well that, and the guy had a bondage fetish
That’s what I was going to say.
The skyhook is how Batman kidnaps Lau out of Honk Kong in The Dark Knight.
this is fun, especially about C, especially when you think who Stephen Fry played in Dr Who recently.
Stephen Fry was in Doctor Who? When was- oh, with Whittaker. Bleh.
@@zbr76 why bother making that comment? if you dont like it, dont watch it, why bother being negative? my comment was a nice positive comment and you had to come in and give your smarmy response...
rob brydon is great :) love his accents.
ah, the Skyhook/Fulton Recovery System. one step closer to Metal Gear Solid being discussed on QI, at which point my life will be complete
"he's saying 'aaahhhh!'" just like in Peacewalker lol
@@finalboss8514 if only Stephen Fry were still on the show, we could've heard his Big Boss impression
Except the way they do it in MGS is completely wrong and, considering they recover the victim with a helicopter, impossible.
@@BenersantheBread I mean they also have a PAL system where instead of two keys being used simultaneously it's one key being used three times in a row, so that's par for the course really
Metal gear is one of the most secret black projects, how did you know??......
The sky hook was used by Sean Connery in one of his Bond films.
The only investigative use of a polygraph is that I'd confess when the arse probe came out
*"A wide spectrum will give you a wide sphincter"*
So when they did this in The Dark Knight it was real?!?! Mind blown.
4:35 Rob Brydon sounds like he’s presenting an arts and crafts segment on Blue Peter 😂😂😂😂
The skyhook thing was used at the end of one of Connery’s Bond films.
out of all the superheroes to be created by the same guy as the polygraph, at least it was the one with the lasso of truth
sandy's description of a fulton, doesnt accuratly convey how much it hurts a human to be yeeted by one xD
Clive's face when Stephen confirmed that C cut his own leg, my god.
1:16 That right there is why you're the best, Boss!
After watching this video, this computer will self destruct in 5 seconds...
I remember watching a skyhook in Thunderball, then on the Dark Knight lol
I knew about Barry Nelson. I’m surprised nobody mentioned the use of a skyhook at the end of Thunderball.
How many of us are stuck in a QI black hole?
Too many. We are doomed.
Been watching all day. I have so much work to do.
Skyhook was a plot device in The Dark Knight.
I had to have a quick check from Alan's question, apparently there was an MI 1 etc, all the way through MI 19 - though interestingly MI 13 and MI 18 have never been used. Or they are in use and we'll just never know what they're used for. Most have been deactivated or amalgamated into MIs 5 and 6.
Oh that is interesting isn't it. I was just mulling on that myself. Thanks!
The Skyhook in the Dark Knight was true...
Not sure if I should go searching the internet for Climax Mystery Theatre...
Maybe put 'safe search' on for that one 😊.
Stephen: Who invented the polygraph?
Allen: Polly Graph herself.
Just perfect!
Hang on, didn't stuntman Bob Simmons play Bond before Connery during the gunbarrel sequence for Dr.No? Or was that made after the film?
Wish there was an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth with Rob Bryden.
Barry Nelson was in The Shining. He played Stuart Ullman the general manager of the Overlook hotel. He told Jack about what Grady did to his family and himself.
i wouldn't have known the answer to the Bond question if I hadn't watched a Cinema Snob episode about it a few weeks back. o_0
the sky hook also known as a fulton device
Recalibrate your sphincter Stephen at once 🤣
Hang about. The creator of Wonder Woman invented the polygraph? Is that why she has the lasso?
I've been reading some Golden Age Wonder Woman stories lately that were written by Charles Moulton, the pen name of Dr. William Moulton Marston, and WW's lasso compels the person wrapped in it to do as the person holding the lasso says. Mostly, WW uses it to get the truth out of the person on the other end. It wasn't until the 1980s when it specifically became the Lasso of Truth.
WW2, people stranded in New Guinea were dropped a set of kit which folded out and roped down so that an aircraft might hook a rope and sling them onboard. So many who learned of this much later assumed they were witnising it's introduction, so that I have learned of its first being used at least every decade since.
I think they mean fulton recovery system
The C clip is fun because Fry played C in an episode of Doctor Who
Stephen Fry went on to play C himself in Doctor Who.
So sorry....but "Sky Hook" wasn't developed to get people out of the Arctic but to recover soldiers and/or spies from behind enemy lines.
Maybe they were in the part of the Arctic claimed by the Soviets. Same difference.
They used a Skyhook in the John Wayne film "The Green Berets"
A polygraph test is just an excuse to get someone in a room with an experienced interrogator and talking.
As a Bond fan, I actually knew that last answer, and I have an even better Bond question. Who has played most often in an authorised dramatic presentation? Anyone like to guess?
I'd guess Roger Moore, as Connery's "Never Say Never Again" was off-license.
@@gryndyl If I had the QI Klaxon, it would be going off right now! That's the one most people would say. However, I was rather cagey in the question. I said Dramatic Presentation, rather than Film. While Moore has played Bond the most on Film on 7 films with Connery on 6 +1, there's been a series of Radio Play adaptations of the original Fleming Novels done for the BBC here in the UK. They've done 9 of them since 2008, all starring Toby Stephens as Bond. (Yes, the Toby Stephens who played Gustav Graves in DAD). They're really good & faithful adaptations of the original novels, and most of them are available here on RUclips if you want to find them! There's also a 1990 radio version of You Only Live Twice with Michael Jayston as Bond that's worth hunting out.
@@fearlessfred67 I've always wished they would film exactly from the books, with respect to period too. So much better than the "blockbusters" they've churned out. They could film at a fraction of the budgets, and people who have only seen the films wouldn't recognise the stories. The ITV Agatha Christie novels are well produced and cast, something along those lines with 50s and 60s styles.
This was all very pleasant to read, thank you for information, advice and elaborate "speech".
@@ak99uk Better than ANY Bond film or book (I read them all as a teen) is the biography of Ian Fleming! His story is actually more thrilling!
Jimmy Bond sounds like James bond's slow american cousin so that kind of checks out...
The moment when people call it a lie detector and treat it as such. Drives me mad
Classic A Bit humour 6:23
'Climax Mystery Theater' sounds like an old-fashioned term for a glory hole.
Wasn't the skyhook used in a bond movie?
Yes, I believe it was at the end of the movie Thunderball
It was also used in The Dark Knight
AS well in "The Green Berets" with John Wayne
If you watch the first series of the QI Spies I've noticed Rob Brydon was very close to being bald. I wonder if he wears a wig or had hair plugs
Wasn't something similar to the skyhook in Metal Gear Solid?
@3:49; is Jo writing that joke down?
Hello
"Hacked off his leg with a pen knife."
Excuse me?
Like... sawing through the bone with a pen knife?
bone may have been broken in the crash, or he might have cut through the knee joint. There are also plenty of pen knives with saws (at least there are now)
Now I want to know what happened to MI 1 to 4
We have decided to dispense with the lie detector today, Mr Suspect, but would you please come through for your tea leaf reading?
Do the current heads of MI6 also follow the tradition by cutting their legs off
Does anybody else hear the word Skyhook and immediately think of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
That Wonder Woman guy was obsessed with forcing truth for some reason
He had implants I think and there's also a medication you can take once you've had them that's supposed to help.
Vic Reeves, is it a Stella-graph? Polly Graph makes an appearance in Alan's Joke later
He said stenograph.
What is the name of the man speaking at 7:52?
John Sessions!
Aww I miss Stephen 😊
Cheers guys! 👍🏻🤪😂
The sky hook sounds like something that James Bond uses at the end of From Russia 🇷🇺 With Love, I think?
It's at the end of Thunderball, but yeah. I'm disappointed none of them knew, since they were talking about spies and whatnot; even the QI Elves didn't put it on the cards.
Did C have a wooden leg named "Smith?"
I suspect what happened to MI 1, 2, 3, and 4 is the same as happened to Seal Team 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; they never existed and the naming was to make the Russians believe there were more of them out there.
You can read about it in the XKCD blog about Twitter's lifetime, which mentions the German tank problem. The Nazis numbered the gear boxes of their tanks incrementally from 1 at the start of a production cycle, and because of that the Allies were able to use statistics to make an accurate and precise estimation of how many tanks were deployed in Normandy. The main take away the Allies took was to not do this themselves, but why stop there? Let's troll the Soviets by makig them think we're this stupid.
No Military Intelligence 1-19 all existed with very specific purposes during both world wars. Most have now been subsumed into other branches or just disbanded. 5 and 6 are the only ones still remaining although MI1b is technically now GCHQ.
Pffffft, Jimmy Bond
Can also bean a polygraph by believing the (false) response you gave to be true
Jimmy Bahnd, ya schmuck!
3:24 Clutty!? What kind of n... Oh: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hutton
I presume his leg was horrifically broken, if he could hack it off, with a penknife?
Not wanting to be too picky, but if the first person to play James Bond played someone that wasn't called James Bond, he wasn't really the first person to play James Bond now was he?
Your right leg I like. I've got nothing against your right leg. Unfortunately, neither have you. You fall down on the left.
I have heard that Ian Fleming named James Bond after a church in Toronto.
hacked off his leg with a pen knife... Oh god...
As you could say, they saw him Cummings
Hi!
Rob Brydon is a treasure
Yes, we dug him up at the bottom of the garden, after a man with an eye patch and wooden leg gave us a map.
This was created by the Americans and was used at the end of Goldfinger. Poor Sean cannery his balls were never the same
So Cumming was the C-man?
Lee do hosen
Well please come on, pick something.
Stop it!
You can watch the 1954 Barry Nelson version of Casino Royale on RUclips - it's better than the Daniel Craig version.
I thought sky hooks were things you would ask stupid people to find in work. Like long stands or legs of mince.
Holy fuck I got deafened by the intro.
Mansfield Cumming... really?
I gotta say, I love Sandi but detest this outro. I don't watch RUclips videos to be scolded for watching until the end.
I'm with you. Love Sandi, and the outro was amusing for the first couple of times. But I've had enough now!
I think it's quite cute.
Yup it's rubbish
Heres a crazy idea. Just move onto the next video when it appears.