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 Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Anitazinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and

James Harkin and 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, Chizinski.

My fact this week is that one of the women about to take part in the first all female spacewalk

has spent the last eight years hand-rearing a flock of geese.

Wow.

And not in preparation for this.

So that isn't part of the preparation.

It does sound like she's going to take the geese with her into space.

Just flying up on the flock of geese.

Which would almost work because they're geese which are famous because they can fly

higher than any other bird so they're the bar-headed geese.

But not in space.

I think space would be pushing it even for them.

Yep.

So this is Jessica Meir and she's due to do a spacewalk on October 21st and she's going

to do it with Christina Koch and it's going to be the first all female spacewalk and she

hasn't always been an astronaut.

She's a physiologist and the reason she's going up into space is to look at how space

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