Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 04, 2016
February 03, 2016
February 05, 2016
Transcript:
Istanbul, Turkey, is the only major city to sit on two continents! Far out work out!!! NASA astronaut Sunita Williams ran the Boston Marathon while aboard the International Space Station! Since 1956, each night the blinking red light atop the Capitol Records Building spells out Hollywood in Morse code.
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Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
how does one even run in zero gravity?
Dean over 8 years ago
She is running on the “Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill”, or COLBERT. ………………..Check out wiki for more info, I would include a link but since I found the Stephen Colbert reference via my dictionary I do not know how to add the “http” part.
juicebruce over 8 years ago
Anyone remember the movie “1941”……Holllywooood…..
Nighthawks Premium Member over 8 years ago
hey Alex!this is a pretty good exercise; there was a time when 20wpmwas easy peasy for me——but since it’s been almost fifty years since I copied code……20wpm
wjones over 8 years ago
She ran at the same time as the Boston marathon and received her progress in the marathon from mission control.
Max Starman Jones over 8 years ago
I think Sunita needs to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up. I’ll bet she was really in the way of the other astronauts. It’s like the only cruise I ever got to take. Trying to stroll on the deck, we were constantly shouted at by fanatics who were running laps and wanted us out of the way.