Hello and welcome to the podcast version of episode five of the curious cases of

Fry and Rutherford. And this episode is about rubbish. Which some might argue

is the same as all of the other episodes we've done. Well yes, although in

particular I think we mean solid waste actually again. Waste rubbish trash garbage.

Well we do have to address the issue of our international listeners. When we

are getting through this we thought rubbish is actually a pretty British

specific word. So when we say rubbish for our international audience what we

actually mean is trash or garbage junk glitter. Nice. Is that do they have the word

litter? I don't know. I don't know. Outside of Britain. But you mean things like what

we mean is things like old bottles, crisp packets. I don't have the word crisp

packet there in America. Why? Chips, isn't it? Oh yeah. But chips are actually

fries. Yeah. It just gets really confusing doesn't it? Anyway last episode in

the series we hope you like it. An exceedingly curious case today. Yes the last

case in our current series is perhaps not quite as practical as our previous

investigations. Yes it was brought to us by an Elizabeth Hill via the medium of

Facebook she simply asks. Can we shoot our garbage into the sun? Now you might

assume that the answer to this is quite obvious. And quite short. Yes. Never

let it be said that we are only interested in conventional assignments or that

we will not go the extra mile or parsec for you dear listener. And the thing is if

we can detect gravitational waves if we can take photos of Pluto and land on

a comet. Surely we can sense and rubbish into the sun. Right. But it really depends

on how much rubbish we're talking about. And I think as scientists it's only

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