1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house Stuff 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: Joshua Clark. There's Charles Bryant, There's Jerome Rowland. All of 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: us full first names only for this episode. That's right. 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: I love calling Jerry Jerome. I don't know when that started, 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: but it's one of my favorite nicknames. Jero Mina, yeah, 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: Jairs called her Jairs a lot too, and just Jiff. Yeah. 8 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 1: What I typically do for nicknames is take the last 9 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: name and half it and add an s if it's workable, 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: like Kristen Congers, Congs or Stricks. For Strickland, I just 11 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: call him strick. Yeah. Strick is good too, but rolls 12 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: Rowls doesn't really work. Chairs is good, and that's called 13 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 1: the nickname show. Yeah. Man, When I was listening to 14 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:07,040 Speaker 1: um oh, I can't remember what episode it was. Wow, 15 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: this is almost not worth mentioning anyway. We're being very silly. 16 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 1: I guess that was currency. It was a very silly episode, 17 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: like we just were not going to take it seriously. 18 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 1: It didn't matter how much anybody wanted us to. Well, 19 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: that's because we had a tank of laughing gas here. 20 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: And oh that was that I got you, so, Chuck, 21 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,399 Speaker 1: I have a question for you. Have you ever been 22 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: to see once on the Maximum Cruise. That's the first 23 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 1: time I've ever been out to see like legite man. 24 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: It's a weird sensation, huh. Like it is different than 25 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: I especially when you can see, you know, how deep 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: it is, like on the TVs or whatever, they'll tell 27 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: you how deep you're you are at any time, and 28 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: you just think like, oh my god, there's like three 29 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: thousand feet of water beneath me and nothing around me. 30 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: It is a little creepy, it is, But it's a 31 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: neat sensation too, agreed. Um, well, I take it from 32 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: the fact that you didn't mention it, because I would 33 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: think that you have mentioned it unsolicitedly. You didn't encounter 34 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: a rogue wave, No, I would have mentioned that. I 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: would think that it was very calm seas of course, Um, 36 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: I didn't even get sea sick. Oh yeah, I have to. 37 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: I have to tell everybody this. So you may find 38 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: these things called C bands? Did you use those? I 39 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: took one, but I didn't need it. We wore them 40 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: almost all the time, and I have to say, and 41 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: I when I didn't have it on I could tell like, 42 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: I don't feel so hot. Put it on, Like five 43 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 1: minutes later, I was totally normal. It was amazing. Yeah, 44 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,080 Speaker 1: I didn't have any seasickness. That was the occasional like, uh, 45 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: the boat would move a little and be like, how 46 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: many drinks have I had? But then I would remember, Oh, 47 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: I'm not in a hotel, I'm in a floating hotel. 48 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: Plus I had a ton of drinks. Yeah, exactly. Uh. Yeah, 49 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 1: No rogue waves though, no road waves for us either. Um, 50 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: because they're rare. I don't know about that. They're pretty rare. 51 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: I guess if you compare it to the normal number 52 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: of waves. Yeah, they're rare, that's what you have to 53 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 1: compare it to, right, But they're a lot less rare 54 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: than than scientists thought they were even just a couple 55 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: of decades ago. Yeah, that's true. So, um, when we 56 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: say rogue waves, depending on where you live in the world, 57 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: you might say, what is a rogue wave? All I've 58 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: ever heard of is a freak wave, Or if you 59 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: live in another part of the world, you might have 60 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: heard them called killer waves. Or if you're a fan 61 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: of the band rogue Wave me, you might just think 62 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: it's music you could that's pleasing to your ear right, 63 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: That's not what we're talking about this time. No, I 64 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: just wanted to give a shout out to the Roadway 65 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: they happened to listen. I love those guys. They have 66 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: a great documentary on Actually their drummer almost died from 67 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: a bad kidney and PBS to this really good documentary 68 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: on Um you know how a like a guy in 69 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: a small indie band gets a new kidney and affords 70 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: a new kidney. It was really great. It's called My 71 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: Ache and Kidney, And you know, I can't remember what 72 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: it was all now so out a few years ago, 73 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: but they're great. My left kidney Zach Rogue is the 74 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: name of the lead guy that explains the band's name. Yeah, exactly, 75 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: and I think it was his right kidney man, although 76 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: it might be wrong. Oh so with Rogue waves, not 77 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: the band, the actual wave. Um there it's I guess, 78 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: just to define it very briefly, a road wave is 79 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: a huge, colossal wave that is, in most definitions, twice 80 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: the size of the next tallest wave in given area. 81 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,359 Speaker 1: That's like basically described as a wall of water, because 82 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: if you're out in the open ocean like you, you're 83 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: normally encountering swells, like the waves are rounded, so boat 84 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: can just kind of float up and down on them, 85 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: even if they are huge. Yeah. Well yeah, and you 86 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: gotta know what you're doing, you know, in those kind 87 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: of ways. You gotta drive into it, the steer into 88 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: it the right way and all that stuff. Right, But 89 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: if your ship's captain, you know what you're doing better. Um, 90 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: the rogue wave, you're in trouble because it is again, 91 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: it's like a wall of water, so it's much steeper, 92 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: much flatter, and when it encounters a boat, it doesn't 93 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: go under the boat. It goes over the boat, it 94 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: breaks on top of it and contin some serious damage. 95 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,600 Speaker 1: Because these things are enormous. Yeah, And the key to 96 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: being a rogue wave is right there in the name. 97 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,719 Speaker 1: It's rogue. It is, uh, it is even if there's 98 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:25,799 Speaker 1: a bad storm. It is not like the other waves 99 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: you're encountering, and they come out of seemingly come out 100 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 1: of nowhere. That which is why they've never been able 101 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: to photograph or to chart them from beginning to end, 102 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: because they you can't predict them. It's not like, well, 103 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 1: there's a road wave coming. They just happen, and all 104 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're like, oh crap, right, let me 105 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: get this boat steered directly, and I hope it doesn't 106 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: break my ship in half, right, And and like you 107 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: qualified it that nobody has a photograph of it forming 108 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: or a video of it forming, Like there are a 109 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: few photos here there, And I think there's some documentary 110 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: evidence from like, um, uh one of those Discovery shows. Yeah, 111 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: there was one on Deadliest Catch, but I think they've 112 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: never scientifically recorded like from beginning to end right exactly, 113 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,120 Speaker 1: so no one knows where where they come from, like 114 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,480 Speaker 1: you say. And there's some pretty cool theories, but um, 115 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: I think you have to kind of differentiate them because 116 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: people are saying at this point, well, dummies, um, underwater 117 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: earthquakes cause rogue waves. Bam, it's done. That's right. Okay, 118 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: what about glacial calving? You drop a huge piece of 119 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,040 Speaker 1: glacier into the water, creates a giant wave, rogue wave? 120 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: All right? What about coastal landslides? Okay, what's the problem here? Well, those, 121 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: my friend, thank you for playing along in our little 122 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: silly game. Uh, those all can cause huge waves. And 123 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 1: some people might say, well the rogue but Um, they're 124 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: really not know they're rogan that there. Yeah, it's a 125 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: huge wave that's much bigger than all the other waves 126 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: around it. They're not rogue because we know where they 127 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: came from exactly, we know who their parents are. Right 128 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: with a rogue wave, Um, again, it just kind of 129 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: comes out of nowhere. Like you said, it can be 130 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: even in a storm. They're much bigger than the other 131 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: huge waves. But they can also just be an enormous 132 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: wave in totally calm seas, which makes them extremely mysterious. Yeah, 133 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: and it depends on who you ask. There's no strict 134 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: definition of how much larger it has to be. I've 135 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: seen everything from thirty three to three times as big 136 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: as the next highest waves, So there isn't, like, you know, 137 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: a rank and file definition of how big it needs 138 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: to be. But um, they've chartered some charted some big ones. Uh. 139 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: In February of two thousand, this is what I found 140 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: is the largest ever recorded wave by science. It was 141 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: off the coast of Scotland, recorded at um. It was 142 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: a British research vessel and that was using scientific instrumentation. 143 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: But there are tons of anecdotal stories. In fact, the 144 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: if you're a seaman then you are. You probably have 145 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 1: one of your own or heard a million of them. Um. 146 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,239 Speaker 1: You know, sailors are renowned for their stories, but ruge 147 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: waves really kind of like they they're the big bang stories. 148 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, it's kind of um. You know a 149 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: lot of people said, oh, there's such thing as navy's 150 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: strength gin, so are you sure you know what you're 151 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: talking about? But every once in a while, the ship 152 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: would come limping back into port and you know, it's 153 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: radar in Tenna would be snapped off even though it 154 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: was like ninety ft above water, and they would say 155 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: it was a wave, and the captain would be a 156 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 1: known sober teetotaler who had no reason to lie. And um, 157 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: they would say, okay, maybe there is such thing as 158 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: rogue waves. But it wasn't until the first one was 159 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: recorded scientifically. That's right. Uh, and you know what, let's 160 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: talk about that right after this message, so chuck, like 161 00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: we said, um, rogue waves were considered sailors lower as 162 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: far as science went, until on New Year's Day, off 163 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: the coast of Norway, I believe there was an oil 164 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: platform called the drop Ner platform, and it just happened 165 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: to be recording waves that day, and it was recording 166 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 1: waves that were about sixteen to twenty three ft high 167 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: about five to seven ms, which I mean, like that's 168 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,599 Speaker 1: pretty respectable, fear surfer, you probably want to get it 169 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 1: out on that, you know. But then all of a 170 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 1: sudden one passed by, and just one that was sixty 171 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: six ft tall, and it was out of nowhere, and 172 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: there was nothing else that came after it, and there 173 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,719 Speaker 1: was nothing before it. And they figured out that they 174 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: had just recorded the first rogue wave ever captured by science. 175 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 1: It is pretty crazy, but this is kind of um 176 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: coming after things like we said, like anecdotal evidence, like 177 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: there was one from the Qiwi two. I believe the captain, Um, 178 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what year it was, but the captain described, 179 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this rogue wave comes out, and 180 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,839 Speaker 1: he said it was it looked as though the ship 181 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: was heading straight for the White White Cliffs of Dover, 182 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: which has to be kind of scary. Yeah, I imagine. So. Uh. 183 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 1: The Queen Elizabeth one as well, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 184 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: more specifically was in World War Two, the Gray Ghost 185 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 1: was converted to a to a military ship to carry 186 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,720 Speaker 1: troops basically and could carry up to sixteen thousand men um, 187 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 1: which is staggering at thirty knots, which is very handy. 188 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 1: But um, a rogue wave struck that ship near Greenland, 189 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: Ino and supposedly shattered windows ninety feet above the waterline. 190 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: But she survived because I saw cat Power play on 191 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: that ship. That was the ship, huh, yeah, there was. 192 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: It's been docked in Long Beach since the sixties. And 193 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: UM I went to the Alt Tomorrow Parties festival there 194 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 1: by the water and it was mainly like the big stage, 195 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 1: but they had a second stage set up on the 196 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth, which is really neat and um I walked 197 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: in and saw cap Power played for like twenty minutes 198 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: before I went back out to the main stage. You know, um, 199 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: the neat venue motor Head is has the cruise going 200 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: on really coming soon, I think this month in September. Wow, 201 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 1: that would be pretty awesome. That would be awesome. U. 202 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: The QI though is, um you can stay it's like 203 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: a hotel now, yeah, so you can stay there and 204 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: eat there and see cat Power there. That's also haunted, 205 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: I'm sure. Well her performance was haunting, so so there 206 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: was a there there's all of these sailors coming back 207 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: saying this way was crazy, and everybody saying, no, you're 208 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: the one who's crazy. But then after that capture UM, 209 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: and they're saying, okay, there is such thing as rogue waves. 210 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: And then for some reason the nineties were like a 211 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: huge boom for capturing rogue waves, improving that there was 212 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: not only did they exist, there was a lot more 213 00:11:58,080 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: of them than they used to think. I think people 214 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 1: were trying more, just like recording the more. And then 215 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: they said, okay, we've we understand that there is such 216 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: thing as rogue waves, but we have no idea how 217 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 1: they formed. And so they started really kind of looking 218 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: into what causes a rogue wave. Yeah, and if you 219 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: guys have listened to our surfing episode, UM, which is 220 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: pretty good, that's all right. But we got into the 221 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: physics of a wave. Uh, and the highlights of that 222 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: are this. Uh. If you're looking at a wave, the crest, 223 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: as you know, is is the highest portion. The trough 224 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: is the lowest portion. It's the dip in the between 225 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: the waves. You have the waves height, which is the 226 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: distance between the trough and the crest. The distance between 227 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: the crest themselves is the length of the wave, and 228 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: then the wave period or wave speed is the amount 229 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: of time between one crest and the next. And then 230 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: what's the last one there? Wave energy. Yeah, that's the 231 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: kinetic and potential energy carried by the wave. Yes, and 232 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: that is sourced from someone named land I see in 233 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: the No, it's not me. So so you've got what 234 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 1: you've just described as a wave. Like, if you have 235 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: all of this information, you can mathematically describe any kind 236 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: of wave. And it's not just um ocean waves too. 237 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: Like this applies to optics, it applies to microwaves, it 238 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,319 Speaker 1: applies to all like anything that takes the form of 239 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: a wave. Apparently even the stock market behaves as a wave. 240 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: And a lot of this stuff applies to It applies 241 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: to you and your break dancing. That's the worm in there. 242 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 1: A wave too, Yeah, there's a wave, but I do 243 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: the worm, that's my signature move. Or if you're a 244 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: sports stadium and you and you're one of those people 245 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: that participates in the wave doing the wave. Yeah, actually yeah, 246 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: I'm sure that this stuff would apply as well. Um, 247 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:53,079 Speaker 1: but under normal circumstances with just a normal wave or something, 248 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: if you're out on the ocean. There are hundreds or 249 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: thousands of waves all around you at any given point 250 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 1: in sure um and they're brought about by the movement 251 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: of wind across water. And if there's a lot of 252 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: unobstructed water, which is called fetch, that's apparently the amount 253 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: of ocean that's unobstructed that the wind can blow across. 254 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: And the wind is blowing strongly and it's keeping up 255 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: its breath, then you're gonna have some waves form, and 256 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: that's what forms a wave. Yeah, and there's you know, 257 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: there's other things that can impact it. Wind is the 258 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: major thing, but you know, the depth of the water 259 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: at the time, tides and currents, uh, if there's an 260 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: island or something in the way, that's all going to 261 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: affect it. But that big open fetches where you're gonna 262 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: get your big, big waves, right, And that's a just 263 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: a normal wave. What they think, what I should say 264 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: one of the main theories for what causes a rogue wave, 265 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: because just these normal circumstances don't account for a rogue wave. Right. 266 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: You can point to any normal wave and be like, yeah, 267 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: it's it's wind over this fetch and boom, there's your 268 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 1: there's your seven ft ocean wave right with a roade wave. 269 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily apply. So they think one of the 270 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: proposed theories is that road waves form when you have 271 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: a current going one way and good sized wave going 272 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: the other way, say from a storm. The current pushes 273 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: up the wave and basically transfers when they run into 274 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: each other, it transfers some energy so that the wave 275 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: just gets freakishly large for a minute, and then all 276 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've got your rogue wave. Yeah. So 277 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: like if you have a really bad storm and in 278 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: a thirty foot wave and it hits something like the 279 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: Gulf Stream, the Gulf Stream might pick it up and 280 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: say I'm gonna make you larger. Yeah, because I'm the 281 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: Gulf Stream, I'm gonna make you a stop. But they 282 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,840 Speaker 1: have definitely found more evidence of road waves in some 283 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: of these currents, like the Gulf Stream on the east 284 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: coast of the US or the one of the two 285 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: that's a current on the southward east coast of Africa. 286 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: They project with maths that you could get a wave 287 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: of as big as a hundred ninetet um But I 288 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: don't know, but they definitely have chartered um charted a 289 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: lot more waves along those streams and uh and currents. 290 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: And actually, if if it is true, if it does 291 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: pan out that currents, strong currents with waves running opposite 292 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: to them causes rogue waves, they're saying, well, then the 293 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: Gulf stream would account for why the Bermuda Triangle has 294 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: so many das disappearance disappearances. I don't know if we 295 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: mentioned that, and I don't think we did. We did 296 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: one on the Bermuda Triangle that I'm sure we said, 297 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: like like they were just a wave that swallowed him, 298 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: But I don't know if we may have said rogue waves. 299 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: It didn't stick out to me as a thing until 300 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: I ran across this article though. Plus that was like 301 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: eighty years ago. It was a hundred years ago. There's 302 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: another explanation to um and this is basically the foundation 303 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: of a mathematical incipal called the Peregrine solaton like this one. 304 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: So the Peregrine Solatan is named after a mathematician named Peregrine, 305 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: and he in the eighties predicted rogue waves like he. 306 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: He mathematically proved that they were possible and showed how 307 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: they would form. Yes he Um, I can't remember his 308 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: first name. Was so British, so before that it was 309 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 1: just like stories, yes, and then this guy comes along 310 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: and proves that that a road wave can occur, and 311 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: he's also even more awesome. He's he it's not just again, 312 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 1: it's not just limited to ocean waves. It's he's saying, 313 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 1: you can have this in optics, which has been proven 314 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: in the lab. You can have it on the ocean, 315 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: which has been proven in the lab simulation. And basically 316 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 1: the whole thing with the Peregrine Solatan is that you 317 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: have a normal wave and if you add just a 318 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: little bit of noise to these predictable um formations of 319 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: a wave, you can have a freakishly large steep wave 320 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: that comes and goes fairly quickly. And that's a Peregrine 321 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: solitan And they they've since shown that these things can't exist. Um, 322 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: but he predicted it in like the eighties, like a 323 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: good ten years before a rogue wave was ever recorded scientifically. Uh, 324 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 1: Professor Peregrine came up with it. They named the Falcon 325 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: after him to probably right. Uh, Well, there's also the 326 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 1: wave reinforcement. Well, this is their related is part of it. Yeah, 327 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: So basically waves getting together and becoming one large wave. Yeah, 328 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: so that noise that you add into the normal process 329 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: in this case, the wave reinforcement that noise would come 330 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 1: from other waves got you. So the idea is, if 331 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 1: let's say you have a ten foot wave passing over 332 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: a twenty ft wave, that's going to be a thirty 333 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: ft wave. Yeah, that's so neat. Or it can go 334 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,640 Speaker 1: in the other direction, and I guess it just has 335 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 1: depend depends on how they meet each other. You can 336 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: also subtract it. Yeah, so like a trough, Yeah, that's 337 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 1: between the crest than the lowest point of the wave. 338 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: Right If if the trough is like ut and a 339 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: twenty foot wave runs into that, it drops down and 340 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: just becomes a five foot wave. Yeah. But even the 341 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: basic addition and subtraction, which makes it really exciting to 342 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: me because I understand that kind of thing, not me. 343 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,719 Speaker 1: Addition and subtraction very basic if I have a calculator. 344 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: But but they're they're saying like, if you have say 345 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: five waves or ten waves, that five ft high, and 346 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: the five ft high is the normal average in the area. 347 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 1: But they all just happened to get together at this 348 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: right point, they're going to turn into a fifty ft wave, 349 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: a single fifty ft wave, and all of a sudden 350 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: you have a rogue wave that just kind of comes 351 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Or if you're in a bad storm, um, 352 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: just a couple of large waves can form something pretty 353 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:56,200 Speaker 1: intimidating very fast. So we'll talk about how common these 354 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: things might be coming up after the Alright, so, uh, 355 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,960 Speaker 1: they used to think they weren't so common. And like 356 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: we said earlier, just the lore of of the sailor 357 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: Navy strength gin exactly what is navy string? Is that 358 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: just like a higher proof Oh my goodness, is it good? 359 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: It's too much to jinny, It's no, it just it 360 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: destroys you. It's not good for you. I've never thought 361 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:34,719 Speaker 1: the high high proof alcohols like to me. Adding the 362 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: extra just takes away from the flavor a little bit 363 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: for me. You know, like that crazy rum that's like 364 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: navy strength throw them. Yeah, I guess so it is. 365 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: It's like firewater. Yeah, it's navy strength through them and 366 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: Navy strength strength gin. It used to be part of 367 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 1: the British Sailors rations. There's there's only one reason to 368 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: drink that stuff. But I mean it went away for 369 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: a reason and then they brought it back and it's 370 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: it's just crazy stuff crazy. They brought it back for 371 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: college students. I mean there's I can't remember who makes it. 372 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: I think Leopolds might make a navy strength gin. Yeah, 373 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: it's it's rough and I love Leopolds Jim, but there's 374 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: any navy strength gin I think would just be too 375 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: much for me. Yeah, you get at older and you're 376 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,880 Speaker 1: not impressed by that stuff, you know, like when you're 377 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: in college though, that's when you're like, this is five 378 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 1: thousand proof. We're going to put it in some kool aid, 379 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: and none of us are going to remember tonight. Nobody 380 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: better be putting Leopold's gin in kool aid. I will 381 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 1: find you look to your nearest college campus because it's 382 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,120 Speaker 1: probably happening. Uh So, Anyway, like we said, they used 383 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: to think they were pretty rare. But um in two 384 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: thousand four, the European Space Agency started collecting data from 385 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: satellites and they basically want to see, like how often 386 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: do these occur? Uh I've seen some different estimates, from 387 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 1: three and ten thousand in the ocean to three and 388 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: one thousand near coastal inlets and river mouths. Um, but 389 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: I think what they found with their max wave project 390 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,880 Speaker 1: was ten waves eight two ft are higher. And that's 391 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: from the s AS data, right, And that was over 392 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: a period of three weeks. But the thing is is 393 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: the previous weather data collection predicted that you get one 394 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 1: every like fifty years, and all of a sudden, they 395 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 1: saw ten in three weeks. So they're like, Okay, these 396 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,479 Speaker 1: things are way more common than we we thought. And 397 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,439 Speaker 1: like I said, they started to think, well, maybe this 398 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: accounts for a lot of disappearances. Yeah. One thing they're 399 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: gonna try and do with another program called wave Atlas 400 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: is do surveys over a longer period of time, which 401 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: um makes a lot of sense, of course, because that 402 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 1: could have been a really rough three weeks. Yes, again 403 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,719 Speaker 1: it could have. It's like I was looking into shipping 404 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: containers because the rogue wave caused to the worst shipping 405 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 1: container losses in recent history. Uh huh? Or rogue waves did? 406 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 1: I should say it wasn't just one, um, And I 407 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 1: should say it's not necessarily just one. Apparently mathematically, it's 408 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: also predicted that rogue waves tend to occur in threes 409 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: for some reason, and I couldn't find out why. UM. 410 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: But they're They're like, if you look at the wreck 411 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 1: of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The account of that um from 412 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: the captain of the Arthur Anderson, which is the ship 413 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 1: that was going along with Lake uh Herea. I think 414 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,720 Speaker 1: when it wasn't Superior Um. They were out in a 415 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 1: storm in November and the Arthur Anderson was hit by 416 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 1: two thirty five foot waves, which is huge for the 417 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: Great Lakes, and they lost sight of the Edmund Fitzgerald 418 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: and the next thing they know, it's on the bottom 419 00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: of the Lake Superior broken into and they were like, well, 420 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: clearly the rogue wave took it down. But there were 421 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: two of them that night, and apparently there are plenty 422 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: of accounts of not just one, but more than one 423 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: rogue wave coming out of the Blue Well. And we 424 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: got a great song out of it, Gordon Lightfoot, the 425 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. It's so odd that I 426 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: guess that was just the time, but it seems weird 427 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,120 Speaker 1: that you get a big radio hit about a hip 428 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: wreck that was when the AM stations dominated. Yeah, he's 429 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: Canadian too, so that might explain a lot. I read 430 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: a good article today on the lost art of the 431 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 1: Fade out and songs. Oh yeah, it's pretty cool. Slight 432 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,959 Speaker 1: did a good article on it, and how you know, 433 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: the biggest hits of the of the sixties and seventies 434 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: and into the eighties even had those great fade outs 435 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: you just you don't hear anymore. No. Well, one of 436 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: the reasons why it's because it's so awkward to try 437 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: to do that live. Like do you remember when Davy 438 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:46,439 Speaker 1: Jones guested on The Brady Bunch, Marcia was trying to 439 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: get him to play the prom um He does the 440 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: rendition of girl and then it fades out at the 441 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,959 Speaker 1: end while he's singing and he's like kind of singing 442 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 1: like more softly. Well, that's because he's lived sinking to 443 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: the recorded version, right, but I mean live, they would 444 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: end them differently. Yeah, but he was supposedly in the 445 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 1: studio and it's like fading as he's recording. It was 446 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: just awkward to see and you could tell he felt uncomfortable. 447 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,439 Speaker 1: It's very awkward. Uh So, I think one of the 448 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: last things we should cover is the differentiation between a 449 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: rogue wave and a tsunami. We've done a podcast on 450 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: tsunamis and the main differences is where it comes from 451 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:32,679 Speaker 1: and where it happens. Uh. Tsunami's aren't typically a ninety 452 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: foot wall of water. A lot of times it's a 453 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 1: five foot wall of water that just has such force 454 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: and speed coming ashore that it does all kinds of damage. Well, yeah, 455 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: depending on when where you see it. Because the rather 456 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: than a wave like a normal wave, UM, where the 457 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: energy is carried on top of the water because the 458 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: wind whipped it up there, the tsunami is generated underwater, 459 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: so the energy carries beneath the water. So when it 460 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: hits that coast, all a sudden, it's pushed upward and 461 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: you have a huge wall of water. But out in 462 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: the ocean, you're like, look at how fast that three 463 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: ft wave is traveling. Yeah, exactly, that's a tsunami. Plus again, 464 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: we know what caused the tsunami, so it's not a 465 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: rogue wave, and it's again not a huge towering wave 466 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 1: on top of the water until it hits the coastline. 467 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: That's right. Uh. And if your ship, um, you know, 468 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: they can build you better and stronger to encounter harsher waves, 469 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: but they're never gonna start building ships to withstand rogue 470 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: waves because they're you know, they don't encounter them that often, 471 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: and there's really nothing you can do if you come 472 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: across a ninety ft wave, I mean the Empire State 473 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: Building from the bottom to the you know kind of 474 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: where the square part ends. It is a hundred and 475 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: eleven feet. Can you imagine seeing a wave as tall 476 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: as the Empire State Building. You can't build a ship 477 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,119 Speaker 1: that can withstand that. So basically, your your ballast is 478 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: your stability, and they can build you as secure as possible, 479 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,680 Speaker 1: but there's really not much you can do top steer 480 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: it as best you can and cross your fingers and pray. 481 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: But also, you know, a greater understanding of how rogue 482 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: waves come about, could you know, lead to improve safety 483 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: less loss of life. Yeah. Maybe prediction I think is 484 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: is the next wave if you will, like that's the 485 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:19,959 Speaker 1: only thing that's gonna be able to help is if 486 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: you even a five minute heads up like this thing 487 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: might be forming somewhere nearby, or sail around this area 488 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: because that's a rogue wave city. Yeah, and no Opelio 489 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: crab is worth it. You know. I saw this UM 490 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: article they somebody did a study about shipping containers and 491 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: UM the effect they have when they go overboard and 492 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: apparently they provide nice little ecosystems when they hit the 493 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 1: hit the bottom of the ocean, like they went and 494 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 1: checked and they're like, okay, that's pretty great. Everything's just fine. 495 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: They like the shipping containers down there, the artificial reefs 496 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: right inadvertent ones. So that's it for rogue waves. If 497 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: you want to learn more about it, you can type 498 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: those two words into the search part how stuff works 499 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: dot com. And since I said search part's time for 500 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 1: the listener mail. I'm gonna call this help for my future. 501 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: We've gotten a few of these where people ask for 502 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: you know, like what should I do with my life? 503 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna read another one. First time email or 504 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,959 Speaker 1: longtime listener guys, I want to say your show has 505 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: been with me through some very hard times. Your humor, friendship, 506 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: and connection with your fans got me through the passing 507 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: of my grandfather and a very hard breakup. So thanks 508 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,320 Speaker 1: for that. Uh. What I was hoping you could help 509 00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: me out with was this one more thing I feel 510 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: lost with the path I am on in life. I'm 511 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: a recent college grad from Western Washington. You with the 512 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: bachelor's in history and a minor and web design. I'm 513 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: now out in the working world, and I find it 514 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: hard to decide what I want to do with my life. 515 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: I've listened to past episodes where you answer fans who 516 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,560 Speaker 1: are written in, so I thought i'd give it a shot. 517 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,479 Speaker 1: Let it be clear, I am not a struggling college graduate. 518 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: I've landed a steady, secure desk job, but after the 519 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: first couple of months it's lost as luster and I 520 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: feel myself becoming the stereotypical corporate drone. I'm impressed by 521 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: the position you, too, have found yourself in. I want 522 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: to know what advice you have for a young professional 523 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: and scholar in this world. I need a career that 524 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: has the potential to be fulfilling. More fulfilling than creating 525 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: spreadsheets and TPS reports. That is from Kyle. TPS reports 526 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 1: really exist, just like I think if people just use 527 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: that phrase because they catch all from office space, but 528 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,719 Speaker 1: maybe it might be a real thing. That's Kyle. Yeah, Kyle, um. 529 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: I thought about this a little bit. My advice to 530 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: you is to not quit your job, but to do 531 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: your soul searching on someone else's dime for a little while. 532 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: If you've got a good job, you're way ahead of 533 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: a lot of other people. So don't go quit in 534 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: your job and saying, you know, I want to go 535 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: open up a glamping operation in Colorado. Oh, it's the 536 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: new thing with like high quality camping. Oh it's like 537 00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: the new butcher. Yes, sort of like a you know, 538 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,520 Speaker 1: you'll have a nice canvas tent in the woods with 539 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: an actual bed and a rug and a lamp and 540 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: a refrigerator and you charge people to go stay there. 541 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: It sounds very nice. Yeah, it's not camping, it's lamping. 542 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: But um, yeah, Kyle, So I would not suggest you, 543 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: like go quit your job and run off and join 544 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: the circus. How about that. That's easier, Kyle. I never 545 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: have a heads up on stuff like this, so I 546 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: never have any decent advice. But I definitely would side 547 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,720 Speaker 1: with Chuck on that one. Like if you if you 548 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: got stability right now, that doesn't mean you're trapped. You're 549 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,719 Speaker 1: never trapped. Like, figure out what you want to do. 550 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: Figure out what you can make decent money at that 551 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: will make you happy. If it's not the job you're in, 552 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: then there's your answer. Go figure out what that is, 553 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: but do it in the context of your current job 554 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: as well. It's almost across the board a bad idea 555 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: to just quit your job and then figure out what 556 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: you're going to do, Like that's not smart. Yeah, and 557 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 1: these emails are sometimes stuff because Kyle, I can't decide 558 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,600 Speaker 1: what you like and what you joy. If you had 559 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: written in and said, boy, I really love drawing cartoons 560 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: or roller skating and long walks on the beach, right, 561 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: but I am a corporate drone, then I would say, hey, 562 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: maybe try and be a cartoonist. So you need to 563 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: think about, sir, what you enjoy in life, of what 564 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 1: inspires you. And there's probably a job scenario that fits 565 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: that description. Yeah, and don't be discouraged about um having 566 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: a history degree and not using it like that. It's 567 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: becoming more and more prevalent to have a degree that 568 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: you don't necessarily use. It just made you a more 569 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,880 Speaker 1: well rounded and interesting person and you learn the skills 570 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: that you need to survive after college in college, no 571 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: matter what your degree was. And you can always go 572 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 1: to house stuff works dot com and look at the 573 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: career s page. We actually have a career stage that 574 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,280 Speaker 1: is updated. And if they say there's jobs, there's jobs. Boom. 575 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: Because I kind of feel like Kyle was asking a 576 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: little bit for a job. Maybe well, thanks a lot, Kyle. 577 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: We wish you the best to luck into everybody who 578 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: finds himself or herself in a position similar to Cole's. 579 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: We are crossing our fingers for you guys and sending 580 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: you good vibes. Uh. And if you want to say 581 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: hi to us in the interim, you can tweet to 582 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: us at s Y s K podcast. 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