Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 25, 2013
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Transcript:
The British Navy's Astute-class nuclear submarine can hear a ship leaving port from over 3000 miles away! In the 1940s, surrealist artist Salvador Dali worked with Walt Disney on a film that was not released until 2003. When a B25 bomber crashed into the Empire State building in 1945, elevator attendant Betty Lou Oliver survive not only being injured in the crash but also in an elevator fall of 75 stories!
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roscoedog55 over 10 years ago
Disney Dali. Wow. Thanks for link Alex..
randymi over 10 years ago
On the Astute-class thing: that’s entirely unbelievable, and here’s why: the ocean is a very noisy place, with biological and mechanical noises, and there is no way it would be able to pick out a target 3,000 miles away out of all the clutter that exists, even with the advanced software and distributed architecture the submarine has. There simply wouldn’t be enough computing power, for one thing!
Add in the thermocline/convergence zones, the landmasses, the rather-noisy geo-processes Earth has… forget it.
I call bollocks on Ripley’s claim here.
gatacinco over 10 years ago
Thanks for the Dali/Disney link!
jack fairbanks over 10 years ago
betty lou saves a bundle on crutches. they’re 3 inches long
RCKJD over 10 years ago
About the Astute-class sonar:“Swiftsure and Trafalgar Update manager, Captain Ian Hughes said, “A good analogy for the performance of Sonar 2076 is that if the submarine was in Winchester it would be able to track a double decker bus going round Trafalgar Square” (a distance of 60 miles)"So yeah, 3000 miles might be a bit of a hyperbole.However, the processing power of the 2076 is considered to be that of 60,000 PCs (though they don’t say what kind of PC, for all we know it could be a Pentium II PC)
charliefarmrhere over 10 years ago
Randywriter—-I tend to agree. However, there are underwater “listening devices” planted on the ocean floors all over the world, that can relay information to the sub.
Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 10 years ago
Sonar noises are strange in the Mediterranean. As illustrated in ‘Red October’, the US Navy has a library of unique sonar ‘signatures’. There are lots of vessels named in it. One sea story is a tale of a submarine on one side of Italy that picked up one of those documented vessels. But,at the time, the vessel was known to be on the other side of Italy…
Frogman_tg over 10 years ago
The elevator fall did not bother her at all! It was the sudden stop at the bottom that did that….
AmyGrantfan51774 over 10 years ago
wow Betty Lou Oliver was tough huh surviving that???!!!!… I read she was on the Ed Sullivan show that night
AmyGrantfan51774 over 10 years ago
wonder why the Wikipedia article didn’t mention her appearance on Ed Sullivan??!!!!!