Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 18, 2014
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Transcript:
In July 2014, Japanese artist Azuma Makoto sent a bonsai tree to the edge of space attached to a weather balloon. The Gardener's frog, which has no middle ear and was thought to be deaf, is able to hear sound through its mouth. Hurricane Isaac cause the Mississippi River to flow backwards for 24 hours in August 2012.
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Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
So… uh… how does such an amphibian hear with its mouth?
Aussie Down Under over 9 years ago
I’m have trouble hearing why anyone would send a bonsai tree into the atmosphere when they could use the Mississippi to float it backwards.
Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member over 9 years ago
Japanese artists must be goofier than American artists!
NaturLvr over 9 years ago
The Mississippi River also ran backwards, or appeared to, during the New Madrid, Missouri, earthquakes of 1811-12.
jack fairbanks over 9 years ago
The New Madrid earthquake of winter 1811/1812 generated reports of the Mississippi running “retrograde” for several hours, and was estimated to have been felt over an area of one million square miles. There are many fascinating aspects surrounding the event / it makes for an entertaining “Google”…
tuslog64 over 9 years ago
In 1993, the Ohio River was in flood stage at Paducah – even though the Ohio was in technical drought!(Back water from the flooding Mississippi)
marilynn25 over 9 years ago
Send a bonsai tree up with a weather balloon?!? What the heck for?? Sounds like it was government-sponsored (A/K/A “waste of Japanese taxpayers’ money”).
Marv Walker over 9 years ago
And he knew the little sucker was at the edge of space how?
tadchem over 9 years ago
My wife has her mouth open all the time, but she never seems to hear a thing I say.