![]() MATT: Gonna bring back Dan Kois for this. ![]() LATIF: Okay, so Matt, maybe just rewind a second. MATT: Yeah, it's like, in all the tens of thousands of miles of space, these few inches are the most contested. LULU: We've got three different stories that examine three different elements of this strange little civilization in the air. endurance test that is flying commercial. LATIF: A flight through the sometimes stressful. LULU: And today, to ring in the holiday airline travel season, we are going to take you on a flight. Like, can you make it through this challenge with your humanity intact in order to earn the reward at the end, which is that you're in Palo Alto or whatever? MATT: And slowly you are confronted with the fact that this glorious miracle of human flight is really just some sort of like weird endurance test.ĭAN KOIS: Yeah. Hey, honey."ĭAN KOIS: Super flirty with the flight attendants.ĭAN KOIS: They might kick the back of your seat.ĭAN KOIS: We could crash and I might die. MATT: And there was that guy across the aisle who looked, "Hey, hon. MATT: And you start to wonder: who are these other people?ĭAN KOIS: Like, is the person next to me a loud snorer, or a drooler on my shoulder? You are literally strapped into a seat, no longer in control of your physical body or your fate. Which is actually kind of where everything goes wrong because what it means is it's just you and a bunch of people trapped inside of a relatively small metal tube.ĭAN KOIS: And any agency we have over ourselves has essentially been stripped of us. ĭAN KOIS: Is, you know, we're 200 people or so, and we're like a little civilization. MATT: I actually talked to Dan Kois, who's a writer for Slate, who pointed out to me that one of the incredible things about being up there with all these people. And maybe you take a moment to kind of just take a breath, relax.ĭAN KOIS: Feeling a state of pleasant anticipation about the place you're going to be when you land. That's where we used to think that gods existed. And then all of a sudden you're in the clouds. And the higher you get, you can start to see the snakings of the freeways and the highway systems and the parks and the neighborhoods. And you can see the ground just start to fall away. And then all of a sudden you're just like, "Oh!" And you feel that little rise, and you leave the Earth. You're doing something like 180 miles an hour. the engines start to whir and suddenly you feel this bump, that jolt. MATT: But also because of this thing that happens to me every time I fly, which is like, you're on the plane, you're out on the tarmac, you're waiting to take off for a while, a long while. So I wanted to start on a plane because millions of people around the world are gonna be on them around this time of the year. LULU: Who needs a story? Matt, throw us whatever you got. But actually, the miracle of human flight. Because 'tis the season for one of the greatest miracles on Earth. Let me just do the-I'm producer Matt Kielty. LULU MILLER: Wow, look at that difference. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab () today.įollow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and share your thoughts with us by emailing support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. The Death, Sex and Money series Estrangement () Michael Heller's and James Salzman's Mine: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control our Lives ( ) ![]() Richard Foss's Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies( ) As well as a whole YouTube to snakes and planes. Lou Boyer, the animal-flying pilot from our episode, has a great plane-forward Instagram account ( ). Original music and sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloom With Production help from - Sindhu Gnanasambandan Produced by - Matt Kielty, Simon Adler and Rachael Cusick Reported by - Matt Kielty, Simon Adler and Rachael Cusick Special thanks to Natalie Compton, Julia Longoria, Mike Arnot, and everyone at Gate Gourmet. In this episode, we look at the strange human experiment that is flying together. At any given moment, nearly 500,000 people are crammed together in a metal tube, hurtling through the air. ![]()
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