Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 02, 2021

As a sports announcer, I’m often asked questions about great players in various sports. Recently, someone asked me who I thought was the greatest all-around baseball player of all time. “Oh, that’s easy,” I replied. “It has to be Willie Mays.” [Note: the late Hall of Fame announcer Ernie Harwell also held this position, so I knew I was in good company.]

My questioner persisted, however: “What do you think his batting average would be if he were playing today?”

“Oh, probably .200, maybe .220,” I responded.

“That low?” he exclaimed. “Do you think pitching has improved that much in fifty years?”

“No,” I told him. “But you have to remember he’s ninety years old.”

One time I calculated the value of pi to 62.9 trillion decimals in 107 days.

May the Lord be with you.

Coming from the Pacific Northwest, I didn’t think there’d be glaciers… unless it’s meant to say Alaska. Very nice on the worms though.

I definitely believe there is life elsewhere in this universe. I also believe they’re too intelligent to try to conquer Earth.

I love apple and chocolate cream pi.

Based on the prices in my local grocery store the value of pi ranges from about $3 to about $15 depending on the quality of the ingredients and type of pie being sold., and it didn’t take me more than 5 minutes to figure that out. Would have taken less time if all the pies were in the same area of the store.

So much time and energy to figure out pi: that is so irrational

Just make sure those ice worms aren’t ones that literally crawl under your skin and leave you feeling so pissed that you want to kill people.

Two thumbs up for anyone who gets the reference.

Canada has talking aircraft,that’s good, but they have hallucinations, that’s bad.

They were mining Bitcoins, got caught, BS their way out if it :D go, prove them wrong!

It seems that there have been more UFO sightings since so many places have legalized marijuana.

Pi with the e is much more easily calculated.

Take care, may deceased aspiring matinee physicist Carl “Bilwions and Bilwions of Necco Wafers” Saganord be with you, and gesundheit.

I figured pi would be calculated to approximately the count of every atom in the universe so I never published my findings, looks like I was right.

Give it up on the UFOs people, you seem to forget the stories that calculated the number of UFO sightings, if they were true then the sky would be think with aliens.

Guess those aliens hovered over Canada cuz they wanted to study a rational civilization..

Aha. Just what the ancient astronaut theorists had always suspected.

WOW Scientist DON’T KNOW (another way of saying that is perplexed) – that is AMAZING wow all you religious guy that scream ‘follow the science’ must be hard put for understanding life now – CUE the snarky, hating on responses LOLOLOLOLOL

Mmmmm…..pi!

That computer looks like an IBM Blue Gene. The Blue Gene was introduced in 1999.

I calculated my wife’s last apple pi to 6 places.

The way it’s written, it sounds like they finished calculating Pi, but we all know they can’t reach the end. It’s a game like trying to find the largest prime number. It just shows off the latest super computer’s capabilities.

I always knew Pi was fattening! Now how many decimals in Cake…

So what number is in the 62.8 trillionth decimal place?

And the colored lights were…? Not UFOs, since there’s no such of thing. Like ghosts.

Do the ice worms ever surface in ordinary scientists?

Wonder what kind of pie the Swiss scientis celebrated with? Apple or Pecan?

Why would the Swiss do that, nobody cares.

! suppose the worms are good for ice fishing.

One time I calculated pi to 2 decimals.

May Lord Alfred Douglas be with you.

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a British poet and journalist best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde.

There has to be something more important to use a supercomputer for than what they spent 108 days doing. What a waste of time, energy and money!! Obviously it wasn’t the scientists’ money.

Ice worm’s are for ice fishing! jeez oh Pete!

I have always questioned the accuracy of the measurements of the radius and the circumference of a circle used to compute Pi. The error of a millimicron would invalidate 62.8 trillion value.