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490: No Such Thing As Whistling At A Fact

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Limits of What You Have

Apple had a hard drive that suffered because there was no fan on it. And so it overheated all the time, which meant any disc going in would suddenly just melt. One of the employees of Apple was so angry with it that he slammed it down out of frustration onto his desk and discovered that that made it work again. Do you know what the longest computer has been left running is? I haven't had my laptop off since 2016. It's asleep and it wakes up again. This one might not even have a lid. So it's not an Earth. That's right. Is it in a spaceship? Yeah, it's the Voyager one. Which have been on for 40 years

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