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

to you from the QI Offices in Covent Garden. My name is Anna Toshinsky and I'm joined

today by Anne Miller, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray. And once again we've gathered

around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular

order here they are starting with Anne. My fact is that the alarm clock on the mere space

station made the same noise as their emergency alarm. That way you up, wouldn't it? It would

wake you up with a start. This is Helen Shryman, he was the first Britain space, he spent

eight days up there in 1991 and she was interviewed recently and said quote, you'd wake up unsure

if it was time to get up or if you were leaking oxygen. It got us out of our sleeping bags

pretty quick. And was that why they did it, do we know? Or was it just like they didn't

have any other sounds on file? I like to think we just thought we've got one alarm. That

will work. That will do. It does sound like a really effective way of getting out of bed.

I mean terrifying. Yeah. Wake up. Fearing for your life. That's pretty much how I feel

waking up every morning. Did you know that her mission, the Juno mission, was actually a commercial

mission. And while she was up there, she had to do an advert for Interflora. No. Was it

because Interflora like Interstellar? Was that the reasoning? You should work an advertising

Andy. I'm not sure actually. The flower company. Yeah. They actually weren't Interstellar

though where they were probably closer to the art stellar than they were on Earth. For some

of the time they were interplanetary. Yeah. Yeah. Whoever you're inter, get them. Nice

to see. You should not work an advertising. Meersounds incredibly shonky. So there was a

thing about how the solar panels were damaged. That was how I find it really all the space

stations are solar powered. I suppose it's obvious. But often the lights would go out and

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