Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from the London Palladium!
Tonight is also a very special episode for us, it is our 400th episode of...
My name is Gage Shriver, I'm sitting here with Anna Tyshinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in a particular order, here we go!
Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.
My fact this week is that there's a 300 square mile section of America where all microwaves have to be kept in cages.
Are they living microwaves?
They're scary like teethy.
Violent, yes, some kryptonite was spilled on them in the 60s and haven't been able to keep control of them.
No, this is, they're kept in specific cages, I have misled you there slightly,
they have to be kept in faraday cages, and that's because it's in the quiet zone.
So this is, the whole quiet zone is actually about 13,000 square miles,
and across that radio transmissions and all electromagnetic transmissions are really restricted,
and within this little 300 square mile section,
which is right next to this green bank observatory, which is a few giant telescopes,
which are really, really important for like seeing things from outer space,
they need to have just no interruption, and that means no waves of any sort,
and that includes, if you're microwaving a burger at two in the morning,