We run it on QI a few years ago.
Yeah, which was there's no such thing as a fish No, seriously, it's gonna be Oxford Dictionary of underwater life.
It says it right there first paragraph no such thing as a fish Hello and welcome to no such thing as a fish.
This is a QIL podcast coming to you from our offices in Covent Garden My name is Dan Schreiber.
I am sitting here with three other QILs James Harkin and Anna Chazinski and Andy Murray and once again We're huddled around our microphone and these are the best facts that we found out from the last seven days So in no particular order here we go Okay fact number one.
We're gonna start with you James Okay,
yep My fact this week is a computer game has been invented that takes more than a lifetime to complete Is it digitized monopoly?
Oh Yeah,
cuz remember that thing we found there was a computer simulation of monopoly and they found
that something like 12% of all games Will go on indefinitely.
Yeah, which is not true because it's much more than that What do you mean so with monopoly?
How would it go on?
Everyone would own a certain portion of the body Yeah,
just keep going Terry Pratchett has a computer game in his book Which is called journey to Alpha Centauri which takes over 3,000 years to play and Wow,
it's just you know the screensaver the very old pattern screensaver with just the moving dots for a spaceship It's that with a counter counting down for 3,000 years and at the end the dot appears in the middle of the screen It says welcome to Alpha Centauri now go home and someone has actually made
that that's a very rough game We're gonna find out about this Okay,
I this this came from the design museum.
I went there this weekend.
It's the design of the year 2014 is competition for all the best design things and this was the thing that I thought was most interesting But the idea is it's kind of an art installation and they're asking questions like What happens to digital things after you die
if you die halfway through that game Can you pass it on to another person to finish off the game?