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🗓️ 18 April 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | We run it on QI a few years ago. Yeah, which was there's no such thing as a fish. |
0:04.6 | It's not a nice such thing as a fish. No, seriously, it's in the Oxford Dictionary of Underwater life. |
0:10.0 | He says it right that first paragraph no such thing as a fish. |
0:18.2 | Hello and welcome to no such thing as a fish. This is a QI Elf podcast coming to you from our offices in Covert Garden. |
0:25.2 | My name is Dan Schreiber. I am sitting here with three other QI Elfs, James Harkin, Anagizinsky and Andy Murray. |
0:31.8 | And once again, we're huddled around our microphone and these are the best facts that we found out from the last seven days. |
0:37.8 | So in no particular order, here we go. |
0:40.8 | Okay, fact number one, we're going to start with you James. |
0:43.8 | Okay, yeah, my fact this week is a computer game has been invented that takes more than a lifetime to complete. |
0:50.8 | Is it digitized monopoly? |
0:53.8 | Oh, yeah, because remember that thing we found there was a computer simulation of monopoly and they found that something like 12% of all games will go on indefinitely. |
1:02.8 | Yeah, which is not true because it's much more than that. |
1:05.8 | What do you mean so with monopoly? How would it go on? |
1:08.8 | Everyone would own a certain portion of the body just keep going. |
1:11.8 | Terry Preciott has a computer game in his book which is called Journey to Alpha Centauri, which takes over 3000 years to play. |
1:20.8 | And it's just you know the screen save the very old passion screen save with just the moving dots for a spaceship. |
1:25.8 | It's that with a counter counting down for 3000 years. |
1:28.8 | And at the end, the dot appears in the middle of the screen and it says welcome to Alpha Centauri now go home and someone has actually made that it's a very rough game. |
1:36.8 | We're going to find out about this. |
1:38.8 | No, what's going to be going on? |
1:39.8 | Okay, this came from the design museum I went there this weekend. |
1:43.8 | It's the design of the year 2014. |
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