
9: The purple seats mystery
Lateral with Tom Scott
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Did a Sheep Eat Something That Could Make Infrastructure Obsolete?
There's a clear causality as to how a bunch of sheep getting ill could cause a load of equipment to go obsolete. They had to be prevented from meeting any other flocks of sheep. That is the cost for the whole country. Oh, did they pay in the water or something? This not for this one. I mean, presumably that's kind of what sheep do. But we are weren't when I say millions of pounds of infrastructure would become obsolete. Well, you say that. And if they infected other sheep, then that would mean all the sheep have it,. which would make all of their meat unusable and maybe make their wool unusable.
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