It's only a harmless bastard this time, but the lesson is important.
The mongooses sleep in the cooling vents of the mound, which are quite separate from the passages most frequently used by the termites.
The mongooses sleep in the cooling vents of the mound, which are quite separate from the passages most frequently used by the termites.
The mongooses sleep in the cooling vents of the mound, which are quite separate from the passages most frequently used by the termites.
Mongoose society requires all its members to devote themselves to the band, which in turn gives each individual a maximum chance of survival.
It may seem tyrannical that only the alpha pair rears young, but this is how the band keeps population growth under control,
while at the same time ensuring that there are always enough mongooses to perform all the essential duties.
A band must have at least five adult members. If every female was permitted to raise her young, there would not be enough adults to go round.
Every member would suffer, and the band would soon be wiped out.
Tonight on Beyond 2000, Ian takes to the road with the aid of a car navigation computer.
High technology takes to the set of court with Cyclops, the electronic linesman, plus the recyclable bicycle, when A&P presents Beyond 2000 tonight.
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In a nearby cavity, babies of another kind are emerging.
The eggs were laid some weeks ago, and the stable temperature and humidity of the mound has incubated them perfectly without any help from the parent snakes.
The snakes, 25 centimeters long, come out of eggs just two and a half centimeters across.
Although snakes hatch in abundance, not many live long.
The babies have first rights to food caught by any member of the band, and they exercise that right with a vengeance.
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At four weeks, the babies are keen to move out on their own, beyond the confines of the
mound.
The quilia is a small bird which arrives suddenly in large flocks and builds thousands of nests.
The mound is literally surrounded by birds.
The band sets out as usual, leaving the babysitters forcibly holding back the four youngsters.
For a time, the quilia provide the mongoose with an unexpected and plentiful food supply,
but when the eggs hatch, the situation changes dramatically.
Eagles and marabou storks fly in to feed on the chicks, and the mongooses suddenly find
themselves surrounded by hundreds of predators.
This baby is asking for trouble.
Two of the band manage to get back to the mound.
There is no sign of the others.
The mongooses in the mound may be frightened, but they're safe, so long as they stay below.
It's the ones outside that are in danger.
Regardless of the distance for the band it would matter, where they are hiding.
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see. Mainland Kiwi Gold. That's the one for me.
Imagination leads us on. Phillips imagined a refrigerator could be as good looking as
it is functional. Their imagination was rewarded with the first fridge to win an Australian
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The alpha female sets off very early next morning without any of the usual marking ceremonies.
Agitated, the babysitters grab the babies and chase after her. The mongooses all left
before the storks arrived. The babies are two weeks older now and a lot more difficult
to carry. They move about with the group but are still closely watched by the babysitters.
Now they are learning about the wider world, exploring and even more keen to add their
scent to the band's marking posts around the territory. Scent means belonging. Each mongoose
makes a distinctive contribution to the band's communal scent and as the youngsters' glands
When dwarf mongooses are not feeding themselves or defending themselves, they are most likely
to be playing among themselves. For the mongoose, play is much more than just a release of tension.
All but the alpha female spend a lot of time playing and unlike other social mammals, everyone
joins in. Even the oldest play just as actively as the young ones. It is in play that the
bonds within the group are created, reinforced and maintained and everyone wants to play
with the babies, the most important members of the band.
The four babies are nearly three months old, almost through the most dangerous period of
their lives. All 14 members of the band have played a part in their care and protection,
even to the extent of facing death for them. Now they have a good chance of living a full
10 to 15 years, contributing in their turn to the survival of this unique society among
animals which depends so much upon the cooperation of every member of the band.
What a pity humans don't work that way, eh? I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did.
Wasn't it fabulous? Join me again next week. Good night.
How often have you been unable to tell your doctor exactly where it hurts? I guess it
happens to all of us. But now pain is being isolated through a new technique that allows
the pain to be seen. Its relief is miraculous. Also on TWT Monday, incest. Government permission
allows a 13 year old girl to tell of three years of sexual abuse by her stepfather.
After about 18 months it started happening every night.
These stories on TWT Monday at 7.
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Now come with AMP on a trip into the exciting and not too distant future.
Welcome to the final program in this series of Beyond 2000. This week, high technology
takes us to the centre court with Cyclops, the electronic linesman. Sharon Nash looks
at high speed cameras, cameras that can catch action that the human eye can't see. But first
Ian Finlay takes to the road with the aid of a car navigation computer.
Finding your way around Northern Europe in the fog on a wintry day is not much fun. But
soon you'll no longer have to worry about getting lost.
I'm sure from time to time you've seen on television stories about cars of the future
with a computer that will be able to get you to where you want to go or stop you getting
lost in a strange city by putting up a little map on a video screen in front of you that
will guide you to your ultimate destination. Well this is another story like that but one
with an interesting difference. One of the big problems facing engineers and computer
scientists who are developing car mapping systems has been the memory capacity of the
computer. How do you carry all of the necessary mapping information around for different cities
and countries? It could run into 300 or 400 megabytes just for a country like Holland
for example. Well you could of course use floppy disks,
computer floppy disks, which can store about 300 or 400 kilobytes of memory but you need
an awful lot of them. Well here in Eindhoven the Philips company have been using this experimental
vehicle to develop an exciting new concept that would use your car radio and stereo music
system to solve the problem. And the key to it is this, the compact music disk which can
store the equivalent amount of information, any sort of information to 1000 of these floppy
disks. Well this is the main experimental set up here. You've got your video screen
there, keyboard for the computer here and the high quality sound system here which includes
a graphic equalizer and a cassette player and then there's a compact display here. This
is much bigger of course than you'd have in a normal car set up, it's purely experimental
and the whole thing would be miniaturized a great deal and set in the dash and so on
in a car of the future. But for the moment let's just see how it all works. Right well
that asked me to insert the disk so I take one of the disks from a little file here which
also contains music disks as well as the information disk in a special holder and you can just pop
that into the slot here and it will then give us instructions on what to do. But only after
some information from the driver, punched in on the computer keyboard saying we want
to reach the Phillips headquarters building. Well now that we've got the relevant information
into the computer, that's our start point and our final destination which is really
all that the computer requires, all we've got to do is to press this button in the top
left hand corner which says go and in a few seconds the map will appear and we'll be on
our way. There we see the map and that's our position at the cross street now and we're
heading up this road here to the main road here and you'll see that the dot will move,
it's moved now. Phillips have called it the Karen system for car information and navigation
and it works by using an electronic compass mounted on the roof combined with the car's
odometer which keeps an extremely accurate count of the number of revolutions of the
wheels so that it knows exactly how much distance has been covered in what direction. Coupled
with that is an equally accurate map of the particular city or town you're travelling
through, in this case the city of Eindhoven which has been transferred into the computer's
memory. It's a bit like an electronic co-pilot, if you have to turn off a main road the computer
will tell you. The compact disc holds all of the road and street name information for
the whole of Holland, every street name, every hotel, every public facility, in fact everything
that could be of use to a driver travelling through Europe. When you cross a border you
just put in the relevant disc for France, Belgium, Germany or whatever. Although the
dead reckoning system using the compass and odometer works well, future plans call for
the Karen system to be tied into the American global satellite positioning system known
as Navstar which will have 18 satellites in orbit, four of which will always be visible
from any point on earth. When that is operational by the end of the decade the car's position
will always be known with an accuracy of less than 3 metres, about 10 feet. One of the really
interesting aspects of the system is that once the local area map is in the computer's
memory you don't have to use the disc anymore. So you can put that back into the file, take
another one, music one and play some music. And what happens is that the system will override
the music or the radio if you happen to be listening to that to give you relevant information
whenever it's needed. We have arrived. Do you have ravenous rodents running riot in
your residence? Depressing isn't it? What's the solution? Well, if the side of a dead mouse
turns your stomach you can try this, the latest innovation for demise of the mouse. It works
like a normal trap. It kills the mouse quickly using a spring action bar. But there are some
major differences. To set it you don't have to lose a finger. You just pull this cord
here. Now enter the mouse, the trap snaps and the last four rodents. Because it's covered
all you see of the deceased is its tail. And to dispose of the body you open the bin, pull
the string and that's you dropped. So you don't have to rebate the trap. All you do
is pour some dripping or food essence through this little hole here in the bottom and as
you can see in this cutaway version this filter absorbs the juice and keeps the trap baited
for several weeks. According to the saying, build a better mousetrap and the world will
beat a path to your door. Well, with over one billion mousetraps sold around the world
each year, if this mousetrap takes off they may need a freeway. Coming up next, keeping
tabs on heavy transport. Because this shopping centre is one of AMP's investments many policy
holders benefit. That's true of AMP's shares in the company that made the concrete on the
ceiling, baked this bread and made this ice cream. AMP owns half this new bank, even shares
in the company that made the polish for the sign. In any busy thoroughfare in Australia
today if you're an AMP policy holder you are there sharing in the present and building
your future. That's AMP, Australian sharing Australia.
Good evening. At a lot of motels you can find the staff less than friendly. Even, downright
reluctant. And it's hardly surprising, after all it's just a job. At Homestead Motor Inns
the people who run the place own the place so they make it their business to be friendly.
Good evening. Spot of dinner or swim in the pool? Straight to bed perhaps. Homestead, spend
the night with someone friendly. Crumps, new mushroom salad dressing. A symphony
of natural tastes. This is STCITT's new Extra XL computer. What
are these? A well known competitors. Why are there two
of them and only one of ours? Because the ITT Extra XL can do the work of
two of theirs. I bet ours costs twice as much. The Extra XL is actually cheaper. But it's
slower. It's twice as fast. It can't run all the programs. Yes it can. No wonder they're
advertising it. STCITT Extra XL does the work of two of theirs.
Just looking at her is pure ecstasy. Just touching her is a lifelong fantasy come true.
Just one problem stands in his way. A little secret she's trying to keep all to herself.
There is a mermaid in New York City. All my life I've been waiting for someone and
when I find her she's a fish. Darryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, John Candy, Inns,
Splash. Premieres Sunday. Operating a fleet of trucks, be they large
or small, presents problems for both owners and drivers. Owners see their expensive investment
roll out of sight and must put their faith in the driver being careful. If something
does go wrong it's a natural assumption that the driver is at fault when that's not always
the case. Now a new system called Fleetmaster uses a
computer in much the same way as the black box flight recorder is used in an aircraft
to monitor a vehicle's vital signs such as revs per minute, speed and oil pressure. Not
only does it show how a truck has been driven, it can help a driver develop better driving
strategies that save fuel and preserve the engine. In the cab of the truck the driver's
console displays the truck's speed to 1% accuracy. Drivers can enter the amount of fuel they
have just put in the truck and any reasons for stopping, for example for a breakdown
or roadworks. This information and indeed all the information
about the truck is recorded in the data acquisition unit.
The transfer unit records all the information from the truck and can then dump it onto a
personal computer or a printer and for large operators a debriefing unit can be installed
at the petrol bowser so the drivers can download information whenever they fill up.
Another feature is the crash report, a second by second account of the truck's speed before
an accident which can be used to support a driver's version of events. By helping drivers
learn good driving habits such as avoiding over revving the engine and by encouraging
them to adhere to company speed limits the Fleetmaster should aid in keeping maintenance
and fuel costs down and in promoting greater road safety.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that all aluminium is as weak as this can. Pure aluminium by
itself is a very weak metal and as this simple demonstration has shown can't withstand much
strength at all. But combined with certain alloys even aluminium can be strong, so strong
in fact that it could ride rings around steel. Strength doesn't necessarily mean weight though,
while the world's best cyclists have all moved over to the expensive carbon fibre bikes the
committed amateur is still slaving on steel. But weighing in with a frame of just 1.3 kilograms
or 3 pounds is Peugeot's new baby, the all aluminium bike and here to show us its style
is Jean-Francois Guébrelle, Peugeot's cycle leader. Okay Jean-Francois.
In France each year 2 million bicycles are bought and at least 2 months of each year
are dedicated to France's healthiest national obsession, riding a bike as fast as possible
around the entire country. The Tour de France until now has virtually been an all steel
or carbon fibre event, but when you're pedalling a machine up a 20 degree slope every ounce
of extra weight you're moving uses precious energy.
Bicycle manufacturers have been wanting to build aluminium bikes for years, but until
now the problem has been joining the bits together. The average bicycle frame has 8
rods and in a steel bike those rods are welded together. Welding of course requires a lot
of heat and the softer aluminium metal when welded simply warps or melts all together.
So what Peugeot have come up with is a pin and sleeve joint to connect all of those rods
so the entire frame is constructed without one weld. And the advantages, well it's corrosion
resistant, light weight, extra strength and a much lower price tag for a high performance
machine. There's one other advantage too, if you ever tire of riding your bike you can
always recycle it.
I just repeat the end of the vetter boat out in the city.
Well, fellow high-tech highwaymen, be warned.
Office equipment will no longer lie there for the taking after hours.
Nor will home video recorders lie defenseless while their owners are out.
What I failed to notice about this tempting array of computers was the gripping new device
beneath them called the AnchorPad.
It's been developed to combat increasing computer theft.
The AnchorPad literally glues the equipment to the workbench with a total force of 3,000
kilograms.
It's suited to all types of machines from your own video recorder to a calculator or
even a lab microscope.
Now this device will solve the security problem in homes, offices, laboratories and schools
where these machines come under frequent attack.
Now this is a model of the AnchorPad using clear perspex to illustrate both attachment
surfaces.
These adapter feet, these black things here, glue to your machine and lock into this metal
plate.
We represented the plate with perspex here.
Underneath is the adhesive pad which sticks to the workbench itself.
Now I release the mechanism by just tearing this key here and removing these two long
steel rods.
We've taken one out.
There goes the second one.
That's the special extractor tool.
Now underneath is the base plate.
I can now move the machine, whatever it is, on top of this particular plate should I wish
to move offices.
The adhesive pad meanwhile can be removed in 20 minutes using infrared heat without
damaging the bench surface itself.
Now there are two extra features of this system which defy sophisticated lock picking devices
or people with screwdrivers.
However, to reveal these really would be telling.
I mean they wouldn't even tell me.
To be perfectly frank, there's no point in sticking around.
I'm off downstairs.
Spoilsport.
Coming up next, the robot that walks its way into war.
It's over 70 years since AMP started helping Australians plan for their future through
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We must have done a whole lot right because we've been a long way ahead of the field ever
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Which means that today, with the widest network of experts, the most experienced advice and
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Bienvenue.
In French it means welcome and right now New Caledonia means unbeatable value.
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Oh, New Caledonia is great.
This is the third time we've been here which really says something.
Oh, there's heaps to do here.
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The French clothes are great.
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See you travel agent quick.
Remember the bird.
Bienvenue.
They come from everywhere to dine and smooth the airs.
Those cocky spies and blowies.
Get your hands off that mowy.
They've heard about my cooking.
But of course without a book it.
I don't bill them, I just kill them.
As I hit them with the old bebo.
Hit them with the old bebo.
Hit them with the old bebo.
See how many blues Smarties and all your other favorite colors are in your next Smarties Patch!
Yeah!
We're gonna light up the tree!
It's a special episode at a special time when Punky and Henry spend their first Christmas together.
One whole hour of Punky Booster. What a great idea!
So don't you dare miss it, 6.30 Sunday on 7.
Robotics and artificial intelligence have come a long way.
Around the world the ranks of robotic devices are swelling.
But mainly they operate in a known environment.
A lot of care is taken to make sure a robot's tasks and tools are pretty much where they expect them to be.
Because even at this stage of development they're easily confused.
Robot vision, teaching robots to see and recognize predetermined shapes, has made exciting advances.
But robot vision in the commercial arena is restricted by robot memory.
These robots for example, although they can recognize dozens of pre-programmed shapes,
would not recognize a piano or a Picasso in your living room.
The results of making them mobile would be disastrous.
Other robot systems like this, the Denning Mobile Robot,
have hosts of sensors on board feeding back information on their environment.
Designed ultimately to patrol prisons to alert guards of security breaches,
this unit uses ultrasonics, infrared, television, and bewildering mathematical algorithms
to sense the geometry of their environment.
But give this robot a set of stairs to negotiate, and it would blow its circuits with confusion and frustration.
But not this eerie looking contraption.
Stairs and such obstacles are its stocking trade.
ODEX 2 looks like a cross between a tarantula and a black hat box,
but what it's doing requires some very elegant computer programming.
It can approach an unknown set of stairs and negotiate them.
The TV camera on top provides the geometry of the situation to seven on-board computers.
A very complex vertical reference system allows the unit to negotiate steep inclines without it toppling over.
The demonstration of the Yurt's agility and strength has prompted a number of large US organizations
to provide additional funding to the Californian-based company ODEX, Inc., to tailor the unit for specific applications.
The Defense Department is interested because they foresee such an artificial intelligence machine on the battlefield,
taking the place of, or backing up, foot soldiers.
There are a multitude of chores for these computerized GIs of the future.
Cattle, suspected minefields, stork tanks, fire rockets, perhaps even act as fearless medics to evacuate casualties under fire.
One vocation ODEX 2 will miss out on is being a commando.
There's no way this contraption could sneak up on you.
The powerful electric motors driving the hydraulics and the linkages for the legs create quite a racket.
The battery life would have to be extended beyond the one hour of constant running that it's presently capable of
if it's to be truly autonomous in the field.
But the ODEX is still a test bed, and it's likely that platoons of these functionoids may be placed in a semi-static position,
awaiting an oncoming force, and within an hour they could do quite a deal of damage.
A key issue in the minds of defense strategists is demographics.
The World War II baby boom that previously provided the young men and women who could be conscripted into the military services is over.
The West has an aging population, so expendable robots make a lot of sense.
In addition, we are interested in what is called force multiplication.
The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and conventional forces outnumber us, and quite strongly.
They have four to five tanks for every one we have. They have three to four artillery pieces for every one we have.
They have more soldiers than we have.
So we do not seek to quantitatively match them. That's too expensive.
Furthermore, we don't have the manpower to do it.
So instead, we would rather gain a qualitative edge, and robotic technology can help us do that.
Furthermore, it can even more so help us do it with reduced manpower by augmenting the force effectiveness of our existing manpower
and even in certain cases taking the place of men or humans in these tasks at this time.
I suppose that's particularly relevant when it comes to tanks.
They are very expensive, very heavy, and really specifically designed to protect the human occupants.
A main battle tank today with all of its equipment, its armor, its life support systems, its sensors for humans is very expensive.
It's on the order of three million dollars a copy.
And if you can instead replace one or more or all of those human crew members, you can dramatically reduce the size of the vehicle,
lessen its complexity and cost, give it a much higher survivable factor in that it's no longer as big.
It's a harder target to find and hit.
And furthermore, you're extending the use of what manpower you have
because now you can have a case of one human in a protected remote control van,
perhaps controlling a half a dozen of these robotic devices.
There are also a host of peacetime duties planned for these robots.
Odetics Incorporated have been given a multi-million dollar contract to develop a remote controlled nuclear plant maintenance robot,
an artificial intelligence device that could move freely about inside cramped corridors with special tools, oblivious of how many raunches it soaks up.
And perhaps one day soon a robot specially protected and equipped
might be seen scrambling into burning buildings, searching for survivors and fighting the searing center of the flames.
I'd like you to meet Tabby, my new little pet.
She's actually called a pet stir, the world's first computerized pet.
Now, whilst she's attached to this lead, I can get Tabby to do a number of things just by pressing the buttons on the remote control unit here.
Go forward, go back, turn right, turn left.
And I can also get her to make a couple of different meow sounds as well, as well as a loud purring sound.
That's not terribly startling. It's a normal remote control lead.
But what's really interesting is that when you disconnect the lead, you can actually get it to operate quite independently in a number of different modes.
And the main one, which she's in at the moment, is called the ready to play mode,
in which there are more than 30 different commands that can be given to her simply by clapping her hands in a certain combination.
For example, if I clap three times, she'll go from the ready to play mode into the obey mode,
and a little red light should come up on her collar to let you know that she's in that mode.
There we are, a little red light's come up.
And she's now waiting for the next command, one clap, which is forward.
There she goes.
Two, which is to the left.
Three, which is to the right.
She has two microphones, which act as stereo ears, and they also give her the ability to locate sounds and move towards them or away from them.
And she has two sensors, one under her collar, which tells her if she's going to run into an obstacle,
and the other, an infrared sensor in her nose, which senses sudden changes in the light,
so that when she's asleep, for instance, a shadow passing over her as somebody walks by will wake her up.
Of course, whatever she's doing, if you stop her and just give her a pat or stroke her, she'll purr like all cats.
Now, there's also a dance mode, an act mode, in which she's either happy or angry or tipsy or thoughtful,
and there's a training mode in which she can be programmed to memorize specific routines that you might want her to do.
And then finally, in the tip mode, which I can get her into with two claps, a pause, and then another,
she'll tell you what she thinks of everything.
Well, what do you think of it here, Tabby? Do you like being on television?
Okay, well, look, you stay here and have a bit of a chat to the crew while I finish this off.
Well, Tabby is actually the brainchild of an American computer executive, and in the United States, she sells for under $100.
In other parts of the world, she'd probably be a bit more expensive, but that's not really much for an obliging intelligent pet,
which is not the least bit interested in pet food, although you do have to feed her batteries.
Well, come on, Tabby, let's go.
Coming up next, the device to temper tennis tantrums.
If you thought Porky's was vulgar and tasteless, now comes the riotous sequel.
The same maniacs are at it again.
I got your snake right here.
Porky's 2, the next day for the first time on television, Monday night on 7.
Mainland Kiwi Gold's for me. It's from New Zealand, you see. Made in the mold, just like cheeses of old.
There's nothing quite like the taste. You won't find one better than our tasty cheddar.
And a Colby they'll never replace. It's from New Zealand, yes, eh. Mainland Kiwi Gold, that's the one for me.
One car has been turning the luxury car market upside down.
This Mercedes was traded in for an Audi 100. So was this BMW.
And the gentleman who once owned this Rolls-Royce now owns an Audi 100.
Right now, your Audi dealer has a deal that leaves Europe's best for debt.
But hurry, the offer's limited. Audi, turning the luxury car market upside down.
Hi, I'm Tracy Wickham, and I'm proud to be associated with Mermaid, the all-Australian pool company.
Thanks, Tracy. We have a special offer for the next 40 pool buyers. A heated family-sized pool, salt chlorination and tax pay for just $9,995.
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Oh, you cannot buy better than Mrs. McGregor. You'll find it's such a smooth spreader. You'll love the taste of Mrs. McGregor.
Oh, it's a wonderful margarine.
It's got vitamin A and vitamin D, which are good for your eyes, your skin and your teeth.
It's low in cholesterol, too, you see. Oh, it's a wonderful margarine.
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The most used and abused person at any tennis tournament is usually the linesman.
He or she, after all, is only human.
And when tennis balls are thudding around the court at 200 km an hour, it's not always possible to give an accurate call.
No wonder some people get upset.
Now, a linesman at a tennis tournament may have 20-20 vision.
But even so, he can't accurately say where a ball's striking the ground.
Here in America, they've got an electronic linesman called Cyclops, which most certainly can.
Cyclops is the linesman who never blinks, although he occasionally flashes a yellow disc and gives off a buzzer.
He has, says his manufacturers, no personal bias, he's never distracted and he never calls in sick.
You hit the same shot 50 times and his call is exactly the same.
Was the ball really in or was it out? At 200 km an hour, it's difficult to say.
If the ball lands 8 cm outside the line, it covers the first 3 cm in 1 one thousandth of a second.
But at that speed, no human eye can see whether the ball struck the line or just missed it.
When a speeding tennis ball strikes the court, it skids, compresses and decelerates.
The eye doesn't see the ball, it sees a blur.
If the sun throws a shadow of the ball onto the line, the ball gives the impression of being in.
If the shadow is thrown away from the line, the ball appears, to the human eye, to be out.
And some clay courts are made of a material so fine that the turbulence is enough to blow the dust off the line.
When this happens, it may look as if the ball hit the line, even though it hasn't.
It's all too fast for the human eye to see.
So Mike, this is one of the four boxes you've got on the court. They work in pairs, do they?
That's correct. For the service line we have four units, for the baseline we have four units.
Inside, Jeff, is another box. Four individual boxes, to be exact.
What does that consist of, in fact?
Well, there are electronics inside these boxes.
We have lenses, optical lenses, that will focus the infrared beam that is being transmitted across the court.
And then on the opposite end, where there's the receiver, there's a lens for that receiver so it catches it.
We're covering the court for an 18-inch field.
There's a master beam that is covering the service line, that gives you the good call.
And then we have four other beams that are monitoring the fault area, where you heard the audible tone, the bleep.
So when the ball falls outside of the service line, that's a fault.
The umpire, by depressing the button on the control panel, will activate that bleep tone.
And the players and the spectators will know that the ball is in fact out.
Cyclops is a British invention which has so far blinked its way through Wimbledon, the US, Australian and French Open tournaments.
It isn't meant to replace linesmen, but operate complementary to them.
A blood test is the single most important diagnostic tool at a doctor's disposal.
And highly trained pathologists can tell anything from how well your liver is functioning to how healthy your diet is.
They can even tell you when you last had an alcoholic drink.
The problem is that the results often take over a day to get back,
and the machines the pathologists use can cost upwards of $100,000.
Well these small Kodak slides are virtually complete pathology laboratories in themselves,
and they can give blood analysis results within minutes.
A drop of blood placed onto a slide slowly filters its way through four layers of chemicals,
which have been specifically designed to make the blood change color according to the chemicals dissolved in it.
The process uses only a tiny drop of blood instead of the test tube full required by conventional pathology.
The blood is first spun at 6,000 revolutions a minute in a centrifuge.
The rapid spinning forces all the blood cells to the end of the tube,
and after a few minutes a precise amount of this clear plasma can be sucked into an automatic pipette.
From there the blood is placed onto the slide in this way.
And in order to keep the temperature constant the reactions all take place inside this analyzer.
So all we do now is wait a few minutes.
All the chemical reactions have now taken place within the slide,
so to analyze any changes in the chemicals the machine shines a colored fiber optic light just here onto the slide.
It measures any reflections, works out what color the slide has changed to, and it prints out the results.
Well, according to this I have 4.5 millimoles per liter of fat-like cholesterol in my blood,
but I'm happy to say that that's normal.
The ectochem isn't nearly sophisticated enough to replace pathologists, far from it.
Pathologists themselves will use the machines.
But since the ectochem is inexpensive enough for doctors to have in their surgery,
it can certainly save time on routine blood tests.
And for doctors in the country who may be hundreds of kilometers from the nearest pathology lab, that time could save lives.
Coming up, cameras that catch what the eye can't see.
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Who else but the one with the most substantial investment portfolio in Australia?
Who else but the one with more expert advisors and more ways to invest?
On every single count, the most experienced, biggest, and best equipped superannuation manager in this country is the AMP Society.
When your future depends on it, and it does, who else could you possibly turn to? AMP.
In Sunday's Sun Herald, we have a startling report that looks at the rising and falling fortunes of Sydney's best-known colorful racing identities.
Men like Abe Safran, George Freeman, and Robert Trimboli. It's a Sun Herald exclusive.
Sunday's Sun Herald reveals how some people are getting away with paying almost no tax.
Plus, we look at the glamorous world of Sydney's socialites.
It's the best news you'll get on a Sunday.
There's by another 300,000 in Neptune mining. That's right.
Mr. Broker thought he was on a winner. His partner discovered otherwise.
There's no nickel down there. Right, sir.
If only Mr. Broker's receptionist had had an A.C.P.A.B.X., his partner wouldn't have had to wait to get through.
Come on. Putting you through. But she hadn't.
If only Mr. Broker had had an A.C.P.A.J.R. on him at lunch, he would have received the call quicker.
This looks serious. But he hadn't.
And back at the office, if only he'd had an A.C. Intelligent firm, and an A.C.F.A.X., he could have instructed the stock exchange in the twinkling of an eye.
But he hadn't.
I'm ruined. Yeah, there's no nickel, but lots of gold.
If only Mr. Broker had had a parachute.
N.E.C. Communications. If only your company used them.
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Lights. Camera. Action. The film business is all the same. The difference here is the star. It's an archer fish.
The director and the camera men on this film are trying to photograph the fish capturing its prey.
All of the action takes place in less than one second, and if you blink, you miss it.
But they won't miss because the camera photographs 100 frames per second.
This is what the film would look like. You can see every movement as the chameleon catches its prey.
The films created here are of a more scientific caliber than their Hollywood counterparts.
Without them, we would be unable to see some of the astounding sights of this universe.
For instance, the airy gracefulness of a bird in flight.
The Film Institute has over 6,000 films. Look at all of these catalogs.
Biology, technical films, anthropology, physics and chemistry, medicine, and psychology.
Let's look at some of the titles. There's, let's see, the feeding habits of a leech.
And here, the development of a newt germ. And on this page, let's see, the ejection of seeds from a squirting cucumber.
That doesn't sound interesting to you, but it is, especially when you look at it through the lens of their cameras.
The scientific film records unknown processes for the first time.
It helps researchers and students in the classroom to understand the process of one movement to another.
By photographing the metals and alloys that we rely on, scientists study how to improve them.
This film of metal being welded was photographed with a camera that shoots 2 million frames per second.
This is what's called cine-micrography.
This 35 millimeter time-lapse camera is attached to a microscope and it can take pictures at 1 frame per hour or 150 frames per second.
Right now, it's taking a picture every 4 minutes. They're trying to record the eye growth of a moth during metamorphosis.
An example of cine-micrography is the enchanting dance of the formation of sporophores.
The Göttingen Film Institute will continue its search for innovative methods of photography in its ongoing effort to uncover the secrets of life on this planet.
The surface of the moon is one of the least hospitable places yet visited by humans.
The low gravity makes life tricky and the near vacuum makes it lethal.
But above all, it's the temperature which gave NASA engineers and American astronauts the most problems.
Out in the direct sunlight where there's virtually nothing between you and the sun, the surface temperature soars to over 100 degrees Celsius.
While in the shade, just a few meters away, the temperature drops to around minus 200 degrees Celsius.
That sort of temperature range makes designing protective clothes a formidable task.
And one of the materials the engineers came up with, called SP-27, looks as though it might have uses back here on Earth.
Well, it's certainly not as cold here inside this industrial freezer as it would be on the dark side of the moon, but it's still pretty nippy,
about 15 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about minus 10 degrees Celsius.
This clothing that I'm wearing is only a couple of millimeters thick, which is less than half the thickness of a conventional down jacket, and of course a good deal lighter.
And yet I'm just as warm.
Now you've probably guessed that the material is SP-27, and the reason it's able to keep me so warm is that it has a microscopically thin layer of aluminum
that's sprayed between the insulating fibers of the material.
Now good quality outdoor clothing protects your body from losing heat through conduction, convection, and evaporation by trapping a layer of still air between yourself and the cold.
Well, unfortunately there's another way for the cold air to strip body heat from you, and that's through radiation.
Out in the cold your body just acts like a furnace, radiating heat outwards.
With this sort of clothing, the aluminum layer simply reflects all of that radiated heat back into the body.
When looked at through a thermal imaging camera, which sees heat rather than light, the effectiveness of the suit can really be seen.
Barely any heat is being transmitted through the material.
In fact, the outside of the material is only a few degrees above the air temperature, which shows that all of the heat is staying where I need it most, next to my body.
And if you compare that to the heat coming through the conventional clothes that are being worn by a member of the camera crew here, you'll see why I'm so warm.
Run!
The material has been tested by explorers in the most severe conditions on Earth.
So, Ranald Fiennes used an SP-27 suit in the Antarctic, where temperatures as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius could freeze exposed skin in just 25 seconds.
Well, SP-27 will soon be on the market in the form of sleeping bags and jackets.
But ironically, although it's a good deal lighter, this high-tech material is still not quite as good an insulator against the cold as an Eskimo's traditional fur.
Coming up, we solve the puzzle of what these fish have to do with this hat.
Tonight on Hunter...
You'd have to bust me again to get me to car with you.
Just trying to do you a favor.
He's one mean dude, out for revenge.
I'm going to go undercover at his place.
Out to get Hunter.
Think I'd fool him maybe back in LA to murder somebody.
Hunter, tonight on Seven.
Pearl from Cousins, the common-sense beauty soap.
Pearl doesn't pretend to make you a movie star, just to help you make the most of what you've got with moisturizers and lanolin.
Pearl simply cleanses, nourishes, and then protects your skin without drying, all ready for your daily beauty routine.
Now, isn't that just what a good soap should do?
Pearl with moisturizers and lanolin, the common-sense beauty soap.
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If you own a smart, economical Holden, a stylish Holden, a Holden that goes anywhere, or a world-class Holden,
there's one service organization that has trained specialists in over 400 locations.
It's a growing computer-linked network with the latest technical information.
Every part used is original and carries a nationwide warranty.
And that's why Holdens thrive on Holden Parts and Service.
Hi, I'm Tracy Wickham, and I'm proud to be associated with Mermaid, the all-Australian pool company.
Thanks, Tracy. We have a special offer for the next 40 pool buyers.
A heated family-size pool, salt chlorination, and tax pay for just $9,995.
And if you're one of the first 20 personal shoppers, we'll pay the tax for you, saving a further $1,000.
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I did my bit for Australia. How about you? Fine mermaid now.
Three years ago, when Australia won the America's Cup, one of the main contributors to its victory was shrouded in mystery.
Well, this time there's going to be no mystery as to who's helping Australia successfully defend it.
It's the spirit of Australia.
Qantas.
This is a fishy story from England.
Most of these fish will end up on the dinner table, but some of them in the form of fish oil will end up as building blocks.
The oil is added to an isocyanate chemical and stirred.
And within a few seconds, voila, polyurethane foam.
You don't have to use fish oil, but it's cheap.
And here in Durham in the north of England, they're even building houses out of it.
That's right, I said fish. This house was almost entirely built with polyurethane foam building blocks,
the main constituent of which is something that you use to stop the rust in your car, fish oil.
Those polyurethane foam blocks have excellent sound and heat insulation properties,
and I'm told that a husband and wife could build a house like this in as little as one month.
The foam's injected into a steel mould under pressure and comes out as building blocks of a uniform size, two feet or 61 centimetres square.
Cut, Geoff. It's light enough, isn't it? It is.
That's the standard building block then, is it? The standard building block.
And you've got that part exposed there to show how you can put your electrical conduit in as well.
That's correct. It shows the configuration of the electrical work.
It's extraordinarily light. How light is it, in fact? It's 3.8 kilos.
So what sort of difference, say a standard one, two-bedroomed house compared with a brick-built house,
what's the difference in weight all of them? Half as heavy as a standard house.
When you're building a house, the blocks fit together using a timber insert, and then they're cladded with wire mesh.
The electrical power points are added in the factory.
The insulation properties of these blocks are the best in the world.
You just can't get any better. There's no point.
Your walls would have to be six foot thick before you'd really get any extra benefit.
It's not likely that fish foam houses will start upstaging the humble semi-detached.
Not just yet. But in warmer third world countries, foam houses may prove to be more of an economic reality and less of a fishy tale.
Well, that's about all for this show and indeed this series.
Looking back, it's been a year of exciting, fascinating, and sometimes bizarre experiences for all of us.
We've all got a few stories that we feel are more memorable than others.
I think for me it was a visit to the Butant Institute for research into venomous animals, snakes and spiders and that sort of thing in Brazil,
where I had to allow this huge spider, one of the biggest in the world, to crawl all over me. It was horrifying.
I bet it was. And what about your story, Jeff, with the Norwegian life braid? I think that would have been terrifying.
It wasn't just the cold water, it was the claustrophobia. You get inside that thing and it's cold and dank and awful.
You go flying through the air and of course you hit the water and go under the water. But fortunately I had my rubber suit on.
How about you, Sharon? I think my favourite story was the ski robot story. The only problem was we both kept falling down.
That was your first time skiing, wasn't it? Not a bad effort. I need to take a few lessons. Maybe Chris will teach me. He's good.
He is good. Well, we hope you've enjoyed the show as much as we've enjoyed bringing it to you. It certainly has kept us extremely busy.
In fact, this is the first time in the last year that we've all been able to get together at one place at one time.
Not for long, unfortunately, because I'm leaving tomorrow to go backpacking in the Himalayas.
Ah, you poor thing. And while you're taking it easy, Ian, I'll be doing a few stories in East Africa,
taking a look at the latest in science and technology there, and I'll be travelling up the Nile to look at some water preservation projects in Egypt,
possibly also a trip to China. Marvellous. Among our many destinations, Ian will be raising the curtain on Russian technology,
two tape stories on, for example, their space programme, and I'll be going to India for what I hope will be some fascinating insights
into how that mysterious and populous country is preparing itself for the next century.
So the work has already begun. I'm bringing you the latest science and technology for the next series.
While we're away, we've compiled a collection of the best stories of the last year, so during the summer you'll be able to see some special episodes
that recall the great discoveries and achievements of this year.
There'll also be some technology that didn't quite work, and some stories where we didn't quite work.
Quite a few.
Also the stories behind the camera that were often more interesting than the real stories.
Well, next week will be the culmination of a year's work by Australia's most innovative young people.
As we present the national finals of the AMP Beyond 2000 Science Award.
The ingenuity and brilliance of some of these entries proves what a valuable resource our young people are to the future of Australia.
In the meantime, thanks for joining us, and we hope to see you again when next we take a look...
Beyond 2000.
Saturday is a hot night for fast action here on 7.
An old enemy has Hunter marked for murder. Next.
Then at 9.30, an old girlfriend has Hammer caught up on a sex trap.
That man from Bachelor Party, Tom Hanks, stars with Darryl Hammer in the premiere of Splash tomorrow night on 7.
A fantastic tale about a fantastic tale.
On television for the first time at 8.30 tomorrow night, it's Splash.
Beyond 2000 was brought to you by AMP.
Putting today in touch with tomorrow.
Oh, I can't wait till Christmas. I wish it was today.
This Sunday, Channel 7 has a one-hour Punky Booster Christmas special.
We're gonna have the best Christmas ever.
Join Punky and Henry as they spend their first Christmas together, 6.30 Sunday on 7.
At Club Méditerranée Pouquette, you can have eight days from just $1,519.
And you won't have to go snorkeling to see lobsters, crabs, prawns and other exotic fish.
They're included on the menu for free.
You're looking at this forest for just 30 seconds.
Forest industry scientists look at it for up to two years to determine whether the ecological balance can accommodate logging.
In fact, this very forest has been logged continuously for over 150 years.
And as you can see, for every tree taken, many more have grown in its place.
We need our forests and we need our forest industries to generate growth and regrowth for Australia.
Good evening. David Reid with a 7 Newsbreak.
Updating the Queensland state election and vote counting is now well underway.
But it's still too early to say whether Queensland will be left with a hung parliament
or if the Beocke-Peterson era is about to come to a close.
Premier Sir Joe Beocke-Peterson appeared confident as he voted today.
But so did Labor's Nev Warburton and Liberal leader Sir William Knox.
First figures are now going up in the Brisbane Tally Centre.
And despite the opinion polls, they show the Nationals are doing better than expected in suburban Brisbane.
The Nationals need to do well there to have any chance of continuing to govern in their own right.
Leading National personality Russ Hins will retain his seat easily,
but Sir Joe's Transport Minister Don Lane is in some trouble.
Another update in one hour.
She's incredibly beautiful, totally desirable.
Trouble is, she's a fish.
They think Typhoon may be back in LA to murder somebody.
I think this is hard evidence.
You're under arrest!
My bro's in the toilet.
Josie's dead.
Police are after me all the cause of you.
Yeah, you were the guy who built the case on him.
Keep driving.
I'll blow your head off, I swear I will.
Holding a police officer captive is the same thing as kidnapping.
It'll get you to death.
Shut up with that crap!
I don't care what happens.
It's gonna be worth it to blow him straight to hell.
Don't kill him.
Works for me.
Maybe you were one of those people who thought Porky's was a bit over the top,
a little vulgar, exceedingly rude.
Don't you like me?
In that case, you're not going to like Porky's 2 one little bit,
because it's got naked men, nude ladies, and the most tasteless practical jokes.
I got your snake right here.
Porky's 2, the next day.
See it for the first time on television, Monday nights,
on 7.
Now that's a nice one, isn't it?
From the Barossa, did you say?
Not exactly.
It takes 257 perfect grapes from the Barossa
to make just one bottle of Yolumba Angus Brut.
No wonder it costs a little more than your average champagne.
I'll take that one.
Do you have another one like it?
If you added up how many cloth nappies you soaked,
washed, and hung out to dry in a year,
you'd be surprised how many cloth nappies that came to.
But snuggler's nappies keep baby drier than cloth
and help keep you away from the laundry.
So next change, change to economical snugglers
and have more time for the things you'd like to do.
Well, all right, this is the best of Santana,
and these are their 15 hottest cuts.
You'll know them all,
because they're all legends.
The man with the golden fingers, Carlos Santana.
Well, all right.
Some reckon it's the sun that makes Sunbeam great.
Others reckon it's the water from a mighty Murray,
and some claim it's the earth.
I reckon it's all three that make Sunbeam full of nature's goodness.
Sunbeam are the best quality branded sultanas you can buy
and mixed fruit and raisins and currants too.
Why? Because Sunbeam is Australia's own.
Sunbeam, full of nature's goodness,
thanks to the sun, the mighty Murray,
and some darn good earth.
Time is ticking inside me
With every breath it's dripping away
I've wasted so much, waited so long
But now I'm one step from freedom
And my time is near
Love has been standing beside me
Pushing me on, ever-leaving me home
The touch of the sun, the taste of the rain
And I don't know me standing by
And my time is near
I thought that she would be so good to me
I guess I never was that smart
Even after what she did to me
I can't get her out of my mind or my heart
Time is ticking inside me
There's so much to do, got to find out about you
I've waited so long, now I can walk on
I know my life is waiting for me
And my time is near
It ain't going to work, Hunter.
What's that, Typhoon?
Your face.
It's butt ugly, but it ain't enough to get me to go back inside.
Now, what kind of attitude is that?
I drove all the way up here to give you a lift.
You'd have to bust me again to get me to car with you.
I was trying to do you a favor.
It's a long bus ride to L.A.
Who says I'm going back there?
Well, it's not like you're going back there.
You're going to get me a ride.
I'm going to get you a ride.
I'm going to get you a ride.
I'm going to get you a ride to L.A.
Who says I'm going back there?
Well, a certain snitch I know told me you're going to try to get even with the guy at the frame there.
That's a load of bull.
Really?
What does that mean, you finally admit you're guilty?
I don't admit nothing.
I never kill nobody.
It ain't going to start now.
The road boy just cut me loose.
And I'd be some kind of fool to get myself put back in the joint again.
Well, I never said you weren't a fool, Typhoon.
I just want to make sure nobody gets killed, you understand?
Yeah?
Well, that's real, considerate of you.
You think I can't wait to get behind the wall again?
Looks like you haven't missed too many meals.
Eight years, Hunter.
We all change.
Hell, you ain't got much more hair than me now.
And you ain't snowing this car none either.
You don't give a damn about me.
You just worry you might have made a mistake.
You expect me to cop the tab on this, a round trip excursion to the state pen?
Well, sure, it's a valid expense.
He was on departmental business.
What, he was business manager?
You get 10% of this?
So what'd you find out?
Well, nothing yet.
Look, the guy's not gonna jeopardize his parole by saying anything to a cop.
Yeah?
Did you ever think your snitch might be full of beans?
Not this snitch.
Fine.
What is he, a notary public?
Look, I'll make you a deal.
I'll leave the expenses going up to see Typhoon
if you authorize a surveillance on him for about three or four days.
I don't feel like I'm gonna be concentrating.