Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from New York City!
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one, and that's my fact this week,
my fact is Carl Sagan spent two years suing Apple Computers for calling him a butthead.
That's going to be hard because you have to prove that you're not a butthead, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
So for listeners who don't know who Carl Sagan is, he is of course the great scientist, he did the TV show Cosmos,
the golden disc on the Voyager, he was the person who dreamt that up,
he's one of the greatest public science speakers of all time, if not the best.
Is he a New Yorker?
He's born in Brooklyn, yeah, born in the same little village that the three students were born in.
So this was in 1993 so basically what happened is
that Apple Computers were releasing the Power Macintosh 7100 and when they were putting it together and they had to talk to the media and stuff they had a code name
that they used which was Carl Sagan and the joke in the team was
that the idea was they wanted to sell billions and billions of the new computer.
So Sagan found out about this and he said, he wrote them a letter saying you absolutely can't do this,
you're using my name to profit with your company and I don't want you to do that, can you please stop?
So they did stop but what they did instead was rename the code name BHA which stood for butthead astronomer and he thought that's defamation of characters so he sued them and unfortunately he lost and so they carried on with it and so then he then tried to sue them