Complete shutdown

Unexpected Elements

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4.4 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How would it feel wake up years later? After the US narrowly avoided a government shutdown, we look at how complicated systems - such as living things - can just press pause.

Could humans ever hibernate like bears and squirrels? Or even like simpler animals that can be revived after 46,000 years.

Also, which way does antimatter fall under gravity? And how might IVF save a functionally extinct species of rhino?

Presenter: Caroline Steel, with Chhavi Sachdev and Philistiah Mwatee. Producer: Alex Mansfield, with Margaret Sessa-Hawkins, Ben Motley and Sophie Ormiston

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0:29.5	Listen first on BBC Sounds. Lives Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service, bringing
0:36.5	you extraordinary personal stories from around the globe.
0:40.5	Search for Lives Less Ordinary, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:49.8	Last week, I was editing some audio for unexpected elements.
0:53.4	I pressed play to have a listen to my hard work, but frustratingly no sound came out of my computer.
0:59.0	I turned the volume right up, still nothing.
1:01.8	I tried using a different pair of headphones, no use, and I checked the sound settings.
1:06.3	Nothing strange there.
1:07.8	My escalating exasperation must have been noticeable as a colleague lent over and said,
1:12.3	have you tried turning it off and on again? I wanted to explain that I was using a very complex
1:18.2	piece of software and the issue was much greater than a simple fix like that. But I was desperate,
1:24.3	so I shut down my laptop, restarted it, press play, and the sound of unexpected
1:28.3	elements poured out of my computer. Turning it off and on again fixed it. Of course it did.
1:34.1	I'm Caroline Steele from the BBC World Kenya is reporter Phyllis Mouatti.
1:55.4	Welcome, Phyllis.
1:56.7	And dialing in from Mumbai in India, we've got broadcaster and journalist Chavi Satchev. Hello, Chavi. Hello, Kamaghani. So Chavi, quick question for you. What's the last thing you fixed by turning it off and on again? So not for me, but I am remote IT support for my parents. And this is a frequent occurrence just last week. My father said his phone wasn't working. So I said you have to turn it off and you have to leave it off for precisely three minutes by the watch and turn it back on. I make it sound like it's very technical and it always works. Well, Chavi, I will now be resaving your number as tech support. Well, you can join the queue. I'll be right behind your parents, yeah.
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