Orcas vs sailboats context (why clips can mislead)

1:05:23>> Yeah. Exactly. So, the first one is kind of a general one, which was during the whale episode, >> our one video that's going to reach a million on Instagram by the time we drop this. >> Yeah. There there were a lot of corrections about the fact that, you know, when you're in a sailboat, you can actually go against the wind. The correction is you can't actually go directly against the wind. You have to tack at an angle that's offset from the wind. I actually know this because um during my grad school at UCLA, UCLA has a marina. Yes. >> In Marina del Rey and they offer >> Marina del Re. [laughter] >> Yeah. Marina del Rey. And they actually offer sailing classes. And so I I got a sailing license um at the UCLA Marina

1:06:07and they taught us how to tack. Yes. >> Um and go against the wind and effectively use Bernoli's principle to go against the wind at an angle. Yes. And you can you you can sort of go like this, right? At the end of the day though, >> Pythagorean theorem, you're not going to be going directly against the wind. So if you're a whale in the ocean, >> you can still outrun a boat. So the the main point was the whales learned how to go directly against the wind and outrun boats. >> Right. Right. The regardless of the fact that yes, sailboats can using tacking Yeah. >> go not directly against the wind, but in the direction where the point is you the whales will be able to outrun. >> Yeah. Like imagine you're a whaler and like you see them. You're not going to

1:06:48be like, "I'm going to go get them." You're going to be like, "No, that's a lost cause. They're going literally against the >> wind." So, we get it, but but that wasn't the >> context. Watch the full episodes. Okay. The clips are not always the full