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113: No Such Thing As A Flycycle

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.817.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss underwater tailors, the overlord of all emojis, and the alphabet of the future.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

0:18.4

to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.

0:21.0

My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andy Murray and Aniches

0:25.4

Innski.

0:26.4

Once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last

0:30.0

seven days and in no particular order here we go.

0:33.8

Starting with you, Andy Murray.

0:36.4

My fact is that when you are 30 metres underwater your lungs are only a quarter of their normal

0:41.2

size.

0:42.2

That is incredible.

0:43.7

Yeah.

0:44.7

How?

0:45.7

What's, because there's not enough air in them?

0:48.2

Well, there's the same number of molecules if you just take one lungful and then you dive

0:53.4

down but the water pressure on them is much higher meaning that you're lung strength.

0:58.1

So if you're at sea level, all the air above you, if you imagine a column of air stretching

1:02.4

all the way up to the edge of the atmosphere, one square inch of that column would weigh

1:07.4

14.7 pounds, right?

1:10.0

So we say the pressure, the air pressure at sea level is 14 pounds per square inch, 14.7.

1:15.4

It is amazing actually to think all of that air pushing down on you whenever you're walking

1:19.3

down the street.

1:20.3

Yeah, wow.

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