Ripley's Believe It or Not has been presenting the incredible and the unusual in illustrated form since Robert Ripley's first "Champs and Chumps" comic published on Dec. 19, 1918. Currently, B.I.O.N. is illustrated by John Graziano, who has been working as an artist and illustrator since 1983, when he received a certificate in illustration from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He has designed trading card sets and a portrait series based on the 1960s cult TV show "Dark Shadows." John has also created comic strips for "Scream Queens" magazine, designed t-shirts graphics and created storyboards and concept drawings for Hollywood films. Researcher Lucas Stram has worked since 2004 as the voice behind the cartoon, reviewing potential stories, filtering through the hundreds of weekly submissions and putting together the stories for John to bring to life. New submissions are always welcome. Just click here.
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Bruno Zeigerts said, 3 months ago
Again, the question … Dr. Ol … le Baaba … why?
At least he doesn’t have the neck rings or the lip extenders… but you have to begin pretty early with either.
Juice- Bruce said, 3 months ago
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 ?
Alexikakos said, 3 months ago
Here is a video of the Vestas Sail Rocket
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pipGWQmerEQ
They call it a wind turbine, but I’m still wondering how any wind powered vehicle can go any faster than the prevailing wind. The physics doesn’t add up.
barefoottech said, 3 months ago
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.
AussieDownUnder said, 3 months ago
Please Doctor…No!!!
N7326 Foxtrot said, 3 months ago
@Alexikakos
I is hard to explain but everybody that has sailed a boat knows that the slowest going is with the wind right on your back. Like squeezing a watermelon seed and sending it across a room with a tiny movement of your fingers.
Kit Walker
said, 3 months ago
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.
RipleyKGarfield
said, 3 months ago
Would any of those camels walk a mile for a human?!?
Chicago Insurgent said, 3 months ago
@Juice- Bruce
camals are in Africa too. Also yes they are in the Saudi Arabia too.
nazzofoggenmach said, 3 months ago
sailing physics seem kinda weird at first blush. the sail actually pulls the hull through the water, the wind doesn’t push it.
AshburnStadium said, 3 months ago
74 mph is barely hurricane-force.
phritzg
said, 3 months ago
One of our stops on our trip to Australia was at Camels Australia, near Stuart Wells, on the highway from Alice Springs to Uluru. What I remember most about the place was their old pet dingo, which was as tame as any regular dog.
joe waskiewicz
said, 3 months ago
Le Baaba is a Guru at best not a Doctor. Interesting, but a spouter of new age babble.
aimlesscruzr said, 3 months ago
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…
Bob
said, 3 months ago
How fast has an ice boat gone?