Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 28, 2021

For my brethren who managed to stay awake through their college classics classes, or even those who did not, I dedicate the following to you…especially if you share my Irish heritage. (Sorry, Silver.)

A Greek and an Irishman were sitting in Starbucks one day comparing their two cultures. Over a double Latte, the Greek mentions“We built the Parthenon you may recall, along with the Temple of Apollo”.

“Aye, and it was the Irish that discovered the Summer and Winter solstices”.

“But it was the Greeks who gave birth to mathematics.”

“Granted, but it was the Irish who built the first timepieces.”

Knowing that he’s about to deliver the coup de grace, the son of Athens points out with a note of finality: “Keep in mind that it was the ancient Greeks who invented the notion of sex as a pleasurable activity!”

“Aye! True enough, but it was the Irish who got women involved.”

One time I went to the top of 49 mountains in 8 months.

May the Lord be with you.

so how long is a Jupiter calendar by all that logic?

If a day on Jupiter is only 10 Earth hours, it means a point at the equator is moving at 27,294 mph.

If a year is divided into 12 Months then Jupiter’s month is one earth year.

I wonder how many months (measured in Jupiter dimensions) it would have taken Floki to reach the top of the tallest mountains of a Neutron star

I wonder who measured those neutron star mountains.

Neutron stars, massive gravity, tiny mountains; how do they know this? (Just how high is a “handful of millimetres”?)

Like boniface22 said, what’s a handful of millimeters? Is this how science is being taught now?

I wonder just how many mountains there are in New Hampshire.

Stars have mountains? Who knew. Do they even have solid ground for mountains or this is just one of those “facts”?

Is a “handful” a new scientific measurement? and exactly how many millimetres is that?

I had a handfull of millimeters once, but they’re all gone now, gone.

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!

So I graduated from college 39 years ago & haven’t kept up on Astronomy, but I am unaware that there are mountains on the surfaces of stars. Has something changed that I don’t know about.

It was a nine month course, of course. And then they went home to a bouncing baby boy.

Take care, may famed felinologist Purrrvis McSkritchord be with you, and gesundheit.

Good job, much more readable.

As I understand it “handful” is a unit in the WnC measurement system. Weed n Crack.

https://earthsky.org/space/neutron-star-mountains-are-tiny-but-still-cant-climb/

Neutron stars are covered with “mountains” only fractions of a millimeter tall, new research shows, meaning these bumps are hundreds of times smaller than previous estimates had suggested. …

I love that this can be a place to share my jokes. These babies are original. Happy to be here Y’all! More to come. I heard the Republican Party is considering renaming itself as the National Conservative party or Nat-C for short.

Whoa! And we think our weekends are too short, hate to spend one on Jupiter!

If I lived on Jupiter, I’d only be 5 and a half years old. Cool.

…And if they had leap days, you could still be waiting for your first if you happened to be born on that day.

And Floki was thrilled every minute.

At first I like the new type and graphics. But this is more like some “interesting facts”, then RBION. Where we were reviled with some unusual events or things that made question or go “erm?”. The type set is inconsistent with spacing, making difficult to read on some days. Guess that’s what I get for hoping for a positive change for once.

Floki would be a good name for a Flerken.

See the two SiFi books: Dragon’s Egg and Starquake, by Robert L. Forward.

About Earth sending a manned expedition to a passing neutron star, and discovering life on it.

New Hampshire has tall mountains???

Space Cat!