Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 13, 2024

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    JB  3 months ago

    That is mighty fine wood there Japan !

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    Leroy  3 months ago

    Not to be outdone, Mexico is almost ready to launch their paper-mache Pinata Lab I.

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    pearlsbs  3 months ago

    Apparently there is a legitimate reason to consider making satellites out of wood.

    space.com/space-exploration/satellites/worlds-1st-wooden-satellite-arrives-at-iss-for-key-orbital-test

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    The Duke  3 months ago

    These entries are out of this world. I wonder why the Japanese didn’t use bamboo?

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    Zykoic  3 months ago

    There’s a bigger story to the wooden space satellite. The Japanese wooden aerospace company, Zelkamakazi, developed a whole plywood based space industry. They flew the very first wood multi-stage rocket that had a pinewood second stage. The second stage burned a wood-pulp and maple syrup mixture for fuel. It is all there on the Internet, you can look it up.

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    Say What Now‽ Premium Member 3 months ago

    Comets have two tails. The dust tail and the ion tail. The ion tail points away from the sun.

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    h.v.greenman  3 months ago

    To all you Triskadekaphobics out there, or more precisely you Paraskevidekatriaphobics*;have a great day.

    to save having to Google it Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is the fear of Friday the 13th)

    In complete (dis)respect to a certain orphidia fondler: One time I was afraid of the number 14.

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    kendavis09  3 months ago

    25,000 years is why I don’t believe in UFO’s and it must be 50,000 years to reach the other side of our galaxy if the Black Hole didn’t slurp you up.

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    tremaine53  3 months ago

    So… I guess I’ll cross a trip to the galaxy’s center off the list of things to do this weekend.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima Premium Member 3 months ago

    I wooden believe it. I’m just knot the type.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 3 months ago

    That factoid about comet tails is an old tale.

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    guy42  3 months ago

    At the speed of light the time experienced on the space ship to travel to the Galaxy’s center is 0. I.E. the trip would be instantaneous.

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    desertinutah1951  3 months ago

    Au contraire. The “UFOs” are ours for the most part, manufactured for by Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks (think: Tic Tacs). The true ones go from one point in space to another instantly, melding materials and mind. (see Einstein and Quantum Mechanics) These same projects have been in the works for decades at various military bases and military contractors who own the technology. See the documentaries by Dr. Steven Greer.

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    heathcliff2  3 months ago

    Does this mean that the termites are finally subject to banishment from Earth?

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    markhughw  3 months ago

    …but to travel to the next closest star (Proxima Centauri) at the same speed would only take about 4.244 years.

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    Peabody N. Sherman  3 months ago

    There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in human philosophy. And there are more things in this reality than have been discovered by human pursuit of science.

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    djlactin  3 months ago

    If you’re travelling at the speed of light, time stops, so you would not take ant subjective time to get there.

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    Smeagol  3 months ago

    “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet

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    Pedmar Premium Member 3 months ago

    In science fiction they zip across the galaxy in just a few hours. That’s why we need infinite improbability drive.

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    namelocdet  3 months ago

    Ummm, did you mean the Universe? There are trillions of Galaxies. Our Galaxy is called the Milky Way.

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