Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 03, 2013

So you go to Australia for camel rides, not the middle east……………..How does that guy do anything, with all that crap on his head ?

Not exactly correct in one aspect. The camels are FERAL (They have domesticated ancestors that were released or escaped) , they are not native to Australia so can’t be described as WILD.

Please Doctor…No!!!

If Dr. Le Baaba rented ad space on his head as well, he could compete with that idiot from Austin, Tx, who was featured in last week’s BION.

Would any of those camels walk a mile for a human?!?

sailing physics seem kinda weird at first blush. the sail actually pulls the hull through the water, the wind doesn’t push it.

Le Baaba is a Guru at best not a Doctor. Interesting, but a spouter of new age babble.

It’s the physics of the force of the wind transferred to the hull and keel. The fastest direction is almost perpendicular to the wind, which causes the hull and keel to essentially “slip” sideways through the water. Similar to what N7326 Foxtrot described with his watermelon seed analogy…

How fast has an ice boat gone?

le baaba is a very very cultured person. I never hoid ov sech a poison.

The picture shows a one-humper. Are there any two-hump camels down there?

did you get to ride a camel????

I’d like to ride a camel wonder what that would be like is it like riding a horse?

Wild in Australia legally defines Native animals, Feral defines Non-Native species. Most native species can’t be hunted , but open season on any feral animal like these camels. A few are captured for export, but most are shot on sight by hunters and park rangers.

Alexikakos: if the wind DOESN’T come exactly from behind; for an appropriate angle of the sail and an appropriate keel, and strength of the wind, the physics does add up. See: composition of vectors. Sailboats often can run (in certain directions) faster than the prevailing wind.

Back in the mid 1800s the US army tried using camels in the Arizona Territory. It didn’t work out. The camels were turned loose to fend for themselves, but they didn’t survive.

there are camles in austraillia?