No Such Thing As A Flycycle

No Such Thing As A Fish

Science, History, Comedy, Nature

4.7 • 18.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss underwater tailors, the overlord of all emojis, and the alphabet of the future.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:18.4	to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
0:21.0	My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andy Murray and Aniches
0:25.4	Innski.
0:26.4	Once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last
0:30.0	seven days and in no particular order here we go.
0:33.8	Starting with you, Andy Murray.
0:36.4	My fact is that when you are 30 metres underwater your lungs are only a quarter of their normal
0:41.2	size.
0:42.2	That is incredible.
0:43.7	Yeah.
0:44.7	How?
0:45.7	What's, because there's not enough air in them?
0:48.2	Well, there's the same number of molecules if you just take one lungful and then you dive
0:53.4	down but the water pressure on them is much higher meaning that you're lung strength.
0:58.1	So if you're at sea level, all the air above you, if you imagine a column of air stretching
1:02.4	all the way up to the edge of the atmosphere, one square inch of that column would weigh
1:07.4	14.7 pounds, right?
1:10.0	So we say the pressure, the air pressure at sea level is 14 pounds per square inch, 14.7.
1:15.4	It is amazing actually to think all of that air pushing down on you whenever you're walking
1:19.3	down the street.
1:20.3	Yeah, wow.
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