TED
Raymond Wang: How germs travel on planes — and how we can stop them
Summary
As a disease has a latent period, it's difficult to know who has the disease around you. Thus, it's possible for you to be infected with any diseases anytime. If there is a person who has the disease in a plane, you take and the air which someone sneezed swirls, it's very scary, isn't it?
The speaker Raymond Wang who is 17 years old, figures out "Global Inlet Director " which is the equipment created the piece of composite material. It can create a good air moving calculated by using fluid dynamics and be installed simply.
This is the simplest and best solution. Current advanced computing and developing Internet help to create it. It'll bring us more innovation .
◆Viewpoints&Discussion
1. Have you ever been on a plane before? Where did you go?
Yes, I have. I went to Hawaii. It took about 8 hours one-way, it means I had been in an airplane for about 8 hours one-way.
2. Was there an instance that you felt you were at risk while in a plane?
Yes, I was scared that my passport and money might be stolen in a plane.
I was worried the onset of an economy-class syndrome.
I couldn't sleep because it's noisy and I couldn't use the restroom because many people were rushing.
My friends thought that the plane might fall the entire time that they were on the plane.
3. Getting an infection is one of the most problematic issues passengers want to avoid. Aside from this, what are other problems passengers might experience while in a plane?
There might be a terrorist and a thief.
Words in this story
latent / potential
certification / proof
advanced / high
problematic /adj/ constituting or presenting a problem or difficulty.
compute / calculate, compete / take part, participate, play, be a competitor, competent / skilled,
route, root. composite /com・pos・ite/kɑmpάzɪt
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