154: No Such Thing As A Submarine Shepherd

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

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🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss the UK's noisiest warships, how glow-worms go fishing and what happened to the world's first cannabis smokers.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:19.7	to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.
0:22.6	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and
0:27.0	Aniches Zensky and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:31.4	facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:36.5	Starting with you, James.
0:38.7	Okay my fact this week is that British warships are so noisy that enemy submarines can hear
0:44.5	them from 100 miles away.
0:47.4	What's going on onboard these ships?
0:50.4	This go nice.
0:52.2	So this basically is the type 45 destroyer and I think we've mentioned them before.
0:57.5	They've had a lot of troubles.
0:59.3	They were the ones who broke down in warm water.
1:03.1	They also rattle very loudly and they used to stop it by putting little wooden wedges
1:09.0	between the hatches and that would stop them from rattling but they've kind of stopped
1:13.0	doing that now just because they've run out of patience and now our warships are rattling
1:18.0	around the seas and anyone who wants to know they're around doesn't even have to use
1:21.8	any detection.
1:22.8	If you're in a submarine, you can't really hear that well underwater.
1:28.3	You can hear better underwater.
1:30.3	Well only in the soundtracks.
1:31.9	You've tried to have a chat with someone underwater.
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