Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Anna Tyshinski and I'm joined today by Anne Miller, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter-Murray.
And once again we've gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here they are starting with Anne.
My fact is that the alarm clock on the mere space station made the same noise as their emergency alarm.
That would wake you up wouldn't it?
It would wake you up with a start.
So this is Helen Shryman who was the first Brit in space who spent eight days up there in 1991 and she was interviewed recently and said,
quote, you'd wake up unsure if it was time to get up or if you were leaking oxygen.
It got us out of our sleeping bags pretty quick.
And was that why they did it, do we know?
Or was it just like they didn't have any other sounds on file?
I like to think they just thought, we've got one alarm.
That'll work.
That'll do.
It does sound like a really effective way of getting out of bed, I mean terrifying.
Smart.
Yeah.
Wake up fearing for your life.
That's pretty much how I feel waking up every morning.