Peter Cappelli
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Podcast Appearances
So they sealed the windows.
They made it warmer.
They made the humidity higher.
And then they made all the humans inside interact with each other with reckless abandon, I guess.
So they played cards and they coughed near each other.
And they ended up finding that...
Surprisingly, nobody spread the flu, even though they were all living together in this small little cramped environment for a while.
Nobody got caught the flu.
And the reason they think it is because there's a lot of nuance for how things are spread.
And the funny part of this story for me is that children are known as one of the bigger spreaders of the flu.
And this was, of course, adults who have various protections.
They've they've had the flu.
They've had vaccinations and stuff.
So no kids involved, no kids sneezing in your face.
This is off the coast of Vancouver, Vancouver Island.
This was a rogue wave 17.6 meters high.
So a research institute had actually put buoys out to study like how the ocean was moving and what was going on below the surface.
And so these buoys were equipped with like GPS technology.
They can measure height and temperature and all that stuff about water.
And so they had this buoy that signaled it had found, it had been, it rose up and came back down 17.6 meters.