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No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss where to find Randy Andy, who Neil Armstrong's quarantine cockroach was, and why you start a fake dust company.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.0	to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
0:23.8	My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Annotishinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray,
0:28.3	James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:33.0	facts from the last seven days in an in a particular order here we go.
0:38.8	Starting with fact number one, that is Andy.
0:41.5	My fact is there is a scientist at Imperial College who's been studying the same bag of
0:46.0	dust for 15 years.
0:48.0	Are you are you dressing him up now for being lazy?
0:52.0	Is that what's happening here?
0:53.8	Yeah, that's right.
0:54.8	He's clearly taking his time over it.
0:56.6	You know, I'm not accusing him of swinging the lead outright, but then again, he is analyzing
1:00.8	every single speck of dust in his bag.
1:02.9	So I can see why it's taken time.
1:05.1	He's called Matthew Geng, he's a planetary scientist at Imperial College and he specializes
1:09.4	in micrometeorites which is basically grains of dust from other worlds and they land
1:14.4	on earth all the time.
1:15.9	He's got a bag which he collected in Antarctica in 2006.
1:19.4	It took him five minutes to collect, but that was the easy bit because then he has to
1:23.6	go through it, speck by speck and just work out which specks a micrometeorite so it's
1:28.0	the exciting ones and which ones are just dust and yeah, he's got 3,000 of them so far.
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