The First Known Bird Could Fly, But Super Awkwardly

This week, evidence that Archaeopteryx could actually fly and a giant leap forward in graphene production!
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[@denisethasder8193]

He tried his best ok.

[@vantablack6288]

he tried

[@marisolmelendez6182]

Denise Thasder Tried, he did

[@grey3247]

Do or do not, there is no try

[@jooot_6850]

Anakin: That means YOU'RE the sith lord! In Obi Wan's head: _Wait a minute, I'm smarter than this!_

[@nilstrobaggia735]

He was the first trans dinosaur. Today, he'd get a free abortion, and would be "stunning and brave."

[@kyleluccasen1562]

I think the prospect of graphene is the single most exciting piece of science or technology i have ever seen in my entire life

[@GrandMarshalGarithos]

Most exciting piece of science or technology you have ever seen in your entire life so far.

[@khadija7530]

Nah.

[@Robb403]

It has the potential for use in super capacity batteries that charge in minutes instead hours. The technology could make the petroleum fueled vehicle another historical artifact like the reciprocating piston steam engine.

[@freyja5800]

and, because it wouldn't be awesome enough otherwise, if you layer two sheets of graphene on top of each other at a specific ('magic') angle it turns into a superconductor. Source: arXiv:1803.02342 (arxiv.org/abs/1803.02342)

[@twirlipofthemists3201]

Some day we will be remembered as the stupid era, when pre-civilized man used to burn carbon.

[@musclehank6067]

No need for flight if your strong legs can let you leap 800 meters in the air.

[@bswtsp21]

Muscle Hank here you are.

[@stanlim9182]

bswtsp21 nano kore wa ?

[@bswtsp21]

林先康 nano?? Do you mean to ask what this is?

[@meetaverma8372]

@@stanlim9182 nice typo

[@wastedinspiration]

@@bswtsp21 bag .com V m H Hz hello, hello, hello, I love you spell funny. I bet it's only get the movie do you know anything

[@johnbagel2560]

Same my little birdie friend. Not all of us are remarkable and most of us are awkward.

[@gabriel300010]

yes. cute if you look at one of them. hell if you need to deal with a lot of them. also it goes away with fire. and its mostly water. so yeah. snowflakes

[@Chrisallengallery]

I'm remarkably awkward.

[@TheAlison1456]

remawkwardable

[@pladselsker8340]

awkwardemarkablible

[@Gildedmuse]

Bit it fossilized and that actually makes it rather remarkable. Still awkward though, poor baby.

[@jackjmaheriii]

Hold on, it's tougher than steel and lighter than paper? Can someone get me some body armor made out of that??!!??!!

[@gabriel300010]

not yet. still need to mass produce it first.

[@biddleTM]

YOU CAN BE INVINCIBLE!

[@bswtsp21]

Spider silk is stronger than steel too. But you can break that apart with your fingers. You’d need a lot of this stuff to make body armor.

[@comradegarrett1202]

steel is only moderately strong. Human hair is stronger in terms of tensile strength.

[@tigershark8867]

Garrett Norris So we make body armor made of human hair then? And maybe a literal coat of arms!

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

There is a series of videos called Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong, by a channel called Chaotic Good, which covers this dinosaur and dozens more, comparing toy dinos to what they should actually look like. Funny thing is, I just got through watching their Archaeopteryx episode! Thanks, KZbin! 😄 Edited to add: how did I miss this video when it came out? 😳 It's really good!

[@TommoCarroll]

Archaeopteryx has always been one of my favourites! Will watch ANY video about them aha! Thanks for the info! Great episode, as always! - Tom

[@twirlipofthemists3201]

Graphene will soon-ish be the cheapest and best material for virtually everything we make. Houses, shoes, batteries, solar panels, transistors, fish hooks, body armor, lawn mowers, spacecraft - almost everything. Coal will more valuable as construction material than it ever was as fuel.

[@General12th]

I am not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son. I am only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes.

[@MacCoalieCoalson]

J.J. Shank being a pheasant plucker is far better than being a pheasant phucker.

[@woodfur00]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpamhqGna5iql6s

[@SteveFrenchWoodNStuff]

The version I always heard said "I'm sittin' pluckin' pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes". A little different than what you said.

[@cgaccount3669]

Who slit the graphene sheets? Who slit the graphene sheets? Whoever slit the graphene sheets is a dirty graphene sheet slitter

[@myca.]

A more effective way to produce graphene! *Do you know what this means?* It might take a while, but this is one of the first steps to manufacturing graphene on a larger scale! It could very well be an affordable technology within our lifetimes

[@pladselsker8340]

Yeah, i definitely can't wait to see the first 10Ghz processor

[@anantkerur557]

And more efficient hydrogen cells

[@idkwefr1751]

Look man I can't buy anything, so I'll just comment on this video because I love what you do. Is that okay?

[@TheFlipside]

6:17- Can someone please make that into a gif?

[@sebastianelytron8450]

Because there's never enough Hank memes

[@SciShow]

Here you go! twitter.com/SciShow/status/974764290656866307

[@patrickcorby1423]

This is one of the many reasons you guys are awesome!

[@tommeng6522]

rainbow hank

[@biddleTM]

"WhAt aM i OOoN"

[@twirlipofthemists3201]

Graphene Man could beat TF out of Iron Man.

[@SoraByers]

The mystical fire stuff it really cool. I got some for a camping trip and the campfire does literally look like a rainbow!

[@simonxag]

Archaeopteryx:- The wings work, so it flies. The big muscles attach to the legs so that's where the power comes from. This is an ekranoplan or WIG, a running dinosaur that can cope with multiple surfaces (sand, water, mud) using lift to support it. Which is handy given that it lives in that sort of environment. We use similar (but larger and legless :) ) machines to cope with such terrain.

[@dbn6585]

where's muscle hank?

[@DKsparks13]

alot of this description seems like chickens. they cant really fly well or for longer then a few seconds, but ive seen some be able to run and fly up to a tree limb or a hay loft to escape snakes or cats. which seems pretty useful as an ability.

[@twirlipofthemists3201]

Look at archaeopteryx fossils. See plainly for yourself that it could fly. Scratch your head when anyone debates it. Look at squirrels and lizards that can glide, then look at birds and bats that can fly, then look at archaeopteryx and guess which category it belongs in. If someone says that something about the bones precludes flight, I say there's something they don't understand about the bones. Those could fly - just look at 'em. (It's still worth studying how, though.)

[@cernunnos_lives]

Twirlip Of The Mists And more than that. This bird had no beak but teeth. And the way it's skeleton is arranged confused science when it was found. This was before our modern understanding.

[@Qwiggsy]

And your friends will be like 'what am i on'(musical melody). Ive been subbed for ages cause i love your fun snippets of science! And the rest! I wish i could super subscribe cause god damn Hank you crack me up. Love your enthusiasm! Thanks everyone at SciShow for the great work that you do!

[@novatheumbreon1364]

This video was hard to find. I was waiting for it.

[@muddman1409]

Atoms have three dimensions, so wouldn’t a sheet one atom thick also have three dimensions? Is it that graphene is 2D for practical purposes or am I missing it entirely?

[@Tfin]

*As close to two dimensional as we can get, anyway.

[@a.feigenheimer8044]

My favorite dinosaur, thank you for the video.

[@nosuchthing8]

Bird you mean.

[@manospondylus4896]

nosuchthing8 Birds are a group of dinosaurs.

[@lilyprice706]

@@nosuchthing8 they are both birds and dinosaurs in think like a chicken is technically a dinosaur, but they are my favorite too

[@kerriebrown754]

Hank, Please keep us updated on the graphene production and uses as you find out. it sounds like the uses could be nearly unlimited. like printing computer chips or even entire motherboards with graphene instead of using copper. this could relieve the pressure on copper mining and lower prices.

[@SpaceWaterfall1]

So when can i get a graphene shirt?

[@TheWareek]

not bad at all was he. What did some people think the first bird was going to be. An Eagle. Great show

[@Sean_Lightning_OBrien]

CARBON NANO TUBES!

[@arturasp9738]

would a graphene shirt be see through? Because then the Emperors news clothes would totally be a thing.

[@AshArAis]

Those magnets are what musicians would use on their music stands while playing outdoors, except if it was too hard/didn't have rubber or felt, it might rip the paper.

[@davidbuschhorn6539]

Is it weird that my first thought was, "I wonder what those tasted like with a little barbecue sauce"?

[@Blue_Anzu]

Probably wouldn't be very good, birds that aren't bred for food don't have very much meat on them :)

[@gabriel300010]

T-rex tastes like chicken. and so do most things.

[@SciShow]

Not that weird: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6rCpoGmjdljb9E

[@biddleTM]

Because Why not

[@grey3247]

gabriel ferraz Everything that isn't fish, cow or pig tastes like chicken

[@sh0gun98]

If they were still around we would be having Archaeopteryx for Thanksgiving.

[@steveknight4291]

The graphene process sounds alot like welding but using gas as the weldpool rather than the weldshield. This is definately once of my favourite episodes, thanks for the laughs Hank

[@VoidicHerald]

Does anyone else here find the idea of SciShow Finds kind of adorable. I mean, it's basically a bunch of grown-ups going look mom, I found a thing. Love you guys, you're so genuine and interesting

[@dilaudid1]

That was the oddest non sequitur of a SciShow I've seen. I was all happy to be hearing how Archaeopteryx flew awkwardly and then sudden it turned into a talk about graphene. WTF!

[@verdatum]

I like SciShow Finds. I hope it is successful, and I would love nothing more than for it to grow. It reminds me of the science store at my mall, back in the 90s when malls actually had interesting stores in them.

[@Znowin]

I have graphene batteries for my DIY drones, its nuts to think the stuff is already in the market

[@starshippower88]

Is it me or should this have been talked about on the PBS EONS channel

[@bswtsp21]

Zygimantas Marcipukas nah, cuz this is more like a science news and science facts channel, and eons is more of an entire chapter of lessons in one video kinda channel.

[@philipkim580]

Amazing! Also would be amazing: Wizard School update!

[@kassiman5307]

NICE VIDEO ....!!! I LIKE IT .... KEEP GOING ....!

[@seaborgium919]

Y'all really should include metric conversions

[@budmeister]

Or you could Google it. Simple as that.

[@edi9892]

Monokuma only 5 of 200 countries still use that awkward system. Probably most listeners dont...

[@AshArAis]

Cubits ok?

[@lucyksh]

edi but it’s an american-based american KZbin show where everyone there is american, they use the measurements in their country

[@LePedant]

Quinn Grey I agree. I'm American and when SciShow uses the metric system it really takes away from the content by having to do mental math. (I feel your pain) They should include both since they have such an international audience.

[@ADLUHE9]

best scishowfinds ad! a mystical fire please

[@Master_Therion]

Any dinosaur can fly... if you throw it hard enough.

[@gabriel300010]

so can any human but we dont really like that idea

[@Master_Therion]

My friend said he could make me fly, but I trust him as far as I can throw him.

[@GeneralDurandal]

I'm glad they are finally finding the true power of crystals.

[@andhikabirdboi7014]

Yeah. Most of us Archaeopteryxes are awkward at flying. Some of us have to live in old birdhouses that are made of wood.

[@Adamantium9001]

Does Hank's shirt have green buttons, or is it a coincidence that their colour in the video is such a perfect match to that of the background?

[@cacodaemonia]

The Story of Earth is an excellent book! Great finds. :)

[@jeanguylouisbourg]

Graphene : the true meaning of ''the pen is mightier than the sword'' :P

[@BlackJohnnyCage]

How do we know Dinosaurs actually roar?

[@SciShow]

Baby elephants roar! But dinosaurs didn't really. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKi1g5KngcyprZo

[@BlackJohnnyCage]

SciShow Thanks for the link! 😎

[@mikasky4350]

Hello! Can I suggest making a video about 'Murphy's 'bad luck' law' ? Would be so awesome! Thanks!

[@ankailoblake]

how does synchrotron microtomography system work? can it be used for scanning the architecture of living bones? what about a different scale like buildings or cities? is it a very expensive?

[@BlytheWestchild]

I loved him singing "WHAT AM I OOON"

[@jonni2317]

From where is the stuff on the Scishow finds page shipped?

[@ZorillaMyrid181]

“Short distances” Meanwhile... Birb manages to fly across all of The Island.

[@Ecnh2]

His hair looks so much better when its up.

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

I completely understood how to make graphene. I'm on it right now....

[@muffinlover9728]

more books in sic show finds PLEASE

[@tedcameron9438]

The graphene thing is very interesting and with it's particular aspects, ie 1000x power and the strength how would that affect cpu's? could it increase the speed potential?

[@thesuccessfulone]

Time crystals are 4D, and 2D is graphene. When we find the first dimension, the next 6 will be interesting to find.

[@ihartevil]

it looks like a turkey ostrich type of birdy thx for this awesomely ha bisky vid i enjoyed it

[@R_Beam55]

I went to scishowfinds for the book and it was already sold out. Good pitch.

[@TheAlcoholic27]

I did a report on this guy in elementary school. Good to see the feathered goofball featured.

[@petercarioscia9189]

Hank! You should do the audio book for the story of earth!

[@FacelessOfficial1]

6:17-6:18 οh you can mess with someone's head so bad with this..

[@Onychoprion27]

So, like, what would a hammock made of graphene look like? Feel like? How strong would it be? What would it look like to shoot it?

[@AmeshaSpentaArmaiti]

if birds are dinosaurs, then does that mean T-rex tasted like chicken? now i want to eat dinosaurs.

[@SeijuroRen]

Archeops is a hilarious Pokemon to see fly in game.

[@benmathews2762]

Is there any way to produce an XL Mars sock in the future? I'm a men's size 15 so I don't want to risk squeezing into a 12.5.

[@sunnyjozani8421]

That pheasant made me laugh out loud

[@RandyJames22]

5:07 Magic Hank Hands -- *Sleek!*

[@diegoantoniorosariopalomin4977]

Hope that development in graphene production is enough to push chip makers to decide using the material as the replacement to silicon ,instead of an inferior alternative

[@reptileepic6945]

Archaeopteryx is baby.

[@Bulbonius]

“Tell the Archaeopteryx that I never wanted this feather head metropolis liar liar wings on fire”

[@LePedant]

Could we even observe a 2 dimensional object?

[@bswtsp21]

Can there be a Scishow Paleontology?

[@lilbasenji1]

Could I make a suggestion? Can you guys do a video on things in science that share a name or named after video games (like shh gene or bulbasaurus), autism, or black wolves

[@abhib8501]

Exactly like the Pokemon Archeops!

[@awesomieRee123]

No one person can surpass Hanks intellectual prowess.

[@grey3247]

awesomieRee123 What about SciShow's research team?

[@mr.j_krr_80]

baaaammmmm

[@n8gr820]

Please note if it hasn't been said yet Do Not Cook over the fire after using the "mystical fire" chemicals or anything like it.

[@noferblatz]

I'm going to laugh my butt off when some submersible goes deep and finds trilobites on the bottom of the ocean. Just like the coelacanths that had gone extinct ("No really, we're absolutely sure they're extinct. For sure.") and then, poof, we found one.

[@bufeu]

So, this is where tales of Dragons emerged..?

[@anantkerur557]

Could you please expand SciShow Finds and make our available internationally

[@andrasbeke3012]

I've never liked calling Graphene 2D. An atom has thickness, regardless of how thin it is. This is probably the closest thing to 2D we can make, but saying it is 2D is more like pop science.

[@awesomieRee123]

Hank is the GOAT.

[@Valdagast]

My cat loves hunting dinosaurs.

[@MysticKenji2]

They might not be good at flying, but I hear they're pretty acrobatic

[@nblax41]

Graphene is not a 2 dimensional structure, it has definite depth along with length and width. All physical objects in our universe are, and must be, 3D.

[@ShirinRose]

Are the ultra-mags sold individually, or are there a few in one pack?

[@james4thedoctor482]

6:17 LOL!

[@combatking0]

Graphene is a kind of carbon lettuce.

[@DevinaHart]

I believe Archaeopteryx did both gliding and flying. It probably flew differently.

[@AvailableUsernameTed]

Anyone else reminded of B.C comics when Archaeopteryx is mentioned?

[@CrazyNerdMonkey]

So when am i getting my graphene hammoc

[@mattus1gig]

I have a question. If we find a fossil of say that bird mentioned, where are all the evolutionary step bird types that got to it? Surely there would be loads of slight changes before and after what we found...

[@mattus1gig]

blue smurff oh good point. So what they find might be a cross over point. I suppose everything is evolving all the time due to environmental reasons and splits in the group.

[@youngsuk3329]

Thank you so much for using metric system. Sincerely

[@colinp2238]

Dinosaurs had powered flight? Wilbur and Orville eat ya hearts out!

[@TommoCarroll]

Haha!

[@sirierieott5882]

WOW... Nearly 5M subscribers. My faith in humanity is restored!...

[@TommoCarroll]

Hell yeah! Science is only growing in popularity!

[@enginuces7140]

could you please explain how effect stresses to the animals? especially bees..

[@K9River]

Oooooh. I want one!

[@Eveningkiss]

Question: If you only have 11 bones then how do you know what it looks like? Just curious.

[@conechiwa7]

i think me and Hank have the same glasses.. Tenny Rei RE118's... I feel cooler now :D