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

That is mighty fine wood there Japan !

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

That factoid about comet tails is an old tale.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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