Laurel van der Toorn
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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He's an astrophysicist, and it's science news.
Now, rogue waves can happen.
You're just standing in the middle of the ocean, and by standing, I mean standing on a boat.
Maybe you're on a shore, and out of nowhere, in a calm sea, for whatever reason, and we'll get into it in a second, a wave out of nowhere that's huge appears.
For the longest time, scientists didn't think they were real, but then they found a couple and realized they were.
Pirates had been complaining about them.
They don't listen to pirates.
I don't know why.
I'll stop talking.
Jesse.
Don't listen to pirates.
Don't listen to pirates, kids.
That's the advice.
Jesse, welcome in.
Tell me about this rogue wave that was recorded in the specific ocean.
But what's so interesting is it's not that the occurrence of a wave like that is unusual.
It is, but they happen.
But it's when they happen out of nowhere in an otherwise calm sea.
I mean, maybe waves were what?
Like three, four meters?