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

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

My name is Dan Shriver, I'm sitting here with Aniches Zensky, Alex Bell and James Harkin,

once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven

days and in no particular order here we go. Starting with you, Alex.

My fact this week is that this episode of No Such Thing as a Fish is going to the moon.

That's a bold claim, Miss Bell. It's absolutely true. What are you, how are we doing that?

Basically a couple of years ago I contributed to a Kickstarter campaign for a pro,

a UK lander to go land on the moon around 2024. They hope it's called Luna Mission 1

and the idea is that they're going to send it to the south pole of the moon, drill down a hundred

meters and take some rock samples and do some science but also it's going to leave a time

capsule there and in that time capsule people who've donated to the Kickstarter campaign

get a little bit of digital space and so I'm going to put this episode in.

So are you doing that because you just want to get this as far away from all things

and existence as possible? Yep, also we got drunk last night and down had the idea and I didn't

read out a saying no. We got really drunk and I was like what definitely doing this?

Alex had all these plans of his family portraits to go up to the moon.

I'm legacy gone. It's interesting though because it's not going up for the other eight years.

Yeah, so about, I don't know the word about 2024 either. I've heard that before in big projects.

But it's an interesting Kickstarter because if they can pull this off it actually just

completely alters how we can fund universal travel basically. I mean we could, who knows maybe

we'll be able to kickstart something tomorrow as well. Yeah, let's just try and get this

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