Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 10, 2013
July 09, 2013
July 11, 2013
Transcript:
Slow hellooo... The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, transmitted one letter every two minutes! In 1958 Ford designed the Nucleon- a car powered by a miniature nuclear reactor! The late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il spent a reported $650,000 a year on Hennessy Brandy- their largest single customer!
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Templo S.U.D. almost 11 years ago
That cable must’ve been one heck of a text message.
Quantumtorpedo1 almost 11 years ago
They should have written Hennessey Cognac, not brandy.
billb181 almost 11 years ago
I have heard that Kim believed that Hennessy made your hair grow! :)
Space_cat almost 11 years ago
The Nucleon was just a mock-up it couldn’t even be driven.
suzleigh almost 11 years ago
The owners of the Nucleon would be glowing with pride.
khmo almost 11 years ago
Figures he would buy the cheap stuff!
Stephen Gilberg almost 11 years ago
Too bad the car was so ugly.
Puddleglum2 almost 11 years ago
Why didn’t the North Korean people consider it “revolting”?
tuslog64 almost 11 years ago
About the same time, there was a design for a nuclear powered locomotive, also scrapped due to weight of shielding and size of condensor car that would have been required. When the weight was revealed, one engineer quipped that the wheels wouldn’t slip!
tuslog64 almost 11 years ago
Once two cables were laid across the ocean, the two ends were connected in the US and it was demonstrated that a battery consisting of a thimble full of acid connected to one cable could be detected by a galvonometer on the other cable at the European end. They were essentially coax cables and the capacity of thousands of miles rendered the frequency response very low. But it was better than waiting weeks for ships.It wasn’t until 1956 that a trans-atlantic cable could carry voice messages, but it was built with a number of repeaters.
GeorgeJohnson almost 11 years ago
I believe, Cognac, is a distilled wine. Whereas “brandy” is more of a drink from distilled fruits, such as grapes (wine) etc…
If you distill wine, then put it in a casket (oak case/barrel) you end up with “Cognac”. But if you use fruits, like grapes, peaches etc…, you end up with a wine, which can also be a “brandy”.
(the difference between wine and brandy, is how it’s stored, not made).
That’s what I understood it to be.