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At any given moment, nearly 500,000 people are crammed together in a metal tube, hurtling through the air. In this episode, we look at the strange human experiment that is flying together.\nSpecial thanks to Natalie Compton, Julia Longoria, Mike Arnot, and everyone at Gate Gourmet.EPISODE CREDITS:\xa0\nReported by - Matt Kielty, Simon Adler and Rachael CusickProduced by - Matt Kielty, Simon Adler and Rachael CusickWith Production help from - Sindhu GnanasambandanOriginal music and sound design contributed by - Jeremy Bloomand\xa0mixing help from - Arianne WackFact-checking by - Natalie A. MiddletonEdited by\xa0 - Pat Walters\nCITATIONS:\xa0\nVideos\nLou Boyer, the animal-flying pilot from our episode, has a great plane-forward Instagram account\xa0(https://www.instagram.com/loub747/). As well as a whole YouTube channel\xa0(https://www.youtube.com/@loub747/videos)\xa0dedicated to snakes and planes. (Luckily, not both at the same time.)\nBooks\nRichard Foss's Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies\xa0(https://zpr.io/KZyTPJkSENVq)\nMichael Heller's and James Salzman's\xa0Mine: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control our Lives (https://www.minethebook.com/)CHECK OUT:The Death, Sex and Money series Estrangement\xa0(https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/projects/estrangement)Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)!\nRadiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today.\nFollow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.\n\nLeadership support for Radiolab\u2019s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.