No Such Thing As Swimming In The Sky is the 300th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 40th episode of the sixth year, and the 51st episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at STADTSAAL in Vienna, Austria. It celebrated the Fish team winning the Heinz Oberhummer Award for science communication.
Description[]
Live at the Heinz Oberhummer Award ceremony in Vienna, Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss edible sleds, the first attempt at laser eye surgery, and our shithole universe.
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Facts[]
- The last TV show that the award-winning eminent physicist Heinz Oberhummer made before he passed away was called "The Universe Is A Shithole". (Schreiber)
- Early laser eye surgery was performed in a trailer next to a trash compactor that, whenever it was switched on, would vibrate the trailer as the doctors were trying to operate. (Ptaszynski)
- Some Inuit, if they got extremely hungry, would've been able to eat their own sleds. (Murray)
- Some bottled water in Vienna costs €9000 per litre. (Harkin)
Trivia[]
- The team having won the award was announced in Episode 294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week.
- Although Harkin claims that it has been 300 weeks since the start of the podcast (as it is a "weekly" show), it was in fact 302 weeks between Episode 1 and Episode 300.
- Harkin quotes Carl Sagan, who was the subject of a headline fact in Episode 297.
- Ptaszynski talks about the fact that a syphilis-like condition existed in llamas before Columbus arrived, which is connected to a headline fact from Episode 297.
- Chewing gum was part of a headline fact in Episode 296.
- Schreiber mentions the Harvard Bridge being measured in Smoots. The bridge was an audience fact in Episode 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive.