The Fukushima disaster, that was a real eye opener for Kyle. Everything you get shipped nowadays is full of plastic. The most common thing, color you're going to see a plastic in the ocean is white and blue because the red colors tend to be eaten by fish or chipped away as the sun sort of hits it. "It's turning into sort of a cancerous thing," he says.
What is the biggest wave in the solar system? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the science of big waves with professional big wave surfer Kai Lenny.
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