Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 03, 2013
Transcript:
The Vestras Sailrocket became the fastest sailboat ever when it hit a speed of 64 knots (74 mph) off the coast of Namibia in November 2012! There are 750,000 camels in Australia the biggest wild Camel population on earth! Dr. Ol Doinyo Laetoli le Baaba of Los Angeles has body modifications inspired by tribal cultures from around the world!
juicebruce about 11 years 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 ?
barefoottech about 11 years 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.
Aussie Down Under about 11 years ago
Please Doctor…No!!!
Vermont Premium Member about 11 years 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.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member about 11 years ago
Would any of those camels walk a mile for a human?!?
jack fairbanks about 11 years ago
sailing physics seem kinda weird at first blush. the sail actually pulls the hull through the water, the wind doesn’t push it.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 11 years ago
Le Baaba is a Guru at best not a Doctor. Interesting, but a spouter of new age babble.
aimlesscruzr about 11 years 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. about 11 years ago
Marvin3 about 11 years ago
le baaba is a very very cultured person. I never hoid ov sech a poison.
comics about 11 years ago
The picture shows a one-humper. Are there any two-hump camels down there?
AmyGrantfan51774 about 11 years ago
did you get to ride a camel????
AmyGrantfan51774 about 11 years ago
I’d like to ride a camel wonder what that would be like is it like riding a horse?
barefoottech about 11 years ago
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.
eumaz about 11 years ago
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.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member about 11 years ago
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.
jon who tried to make a snowman about 3 years ago
there are camles in austraillia?