Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 11, 2021

Were the second animals (as in insects) in space the Russians’ dog Laika’s fleas?

An important fact about spaceflight: The Soviet Sputnik missions of 1957 (including the dog Laika) were the first spacecraft to enter orbit. There were hundreds of sub-orbital unmanned spaceflights before then.

By convention, “outer space” begins at 100 km (62 mi) above the Earth. The first rocket to reach this height was a German V-2 on 20 June 1944, which is considered the first spaceflight. The first with animals (the fruit flies) was a captured V-2 launched from White Sands NM on 20 February 1947, reaching 108 km altitude. There were other animal spaceflights before 1957, to test the effects of radiation, weightlessness, etc.

It’s a fecal matter baby.

A fecal matter from now on.

Sarl Cagan. Cute.

;)

See I told you the coffee in this office tasted like sh*t!

I rarely post an open comment here but I find today’s RBION a bit disgusting. :-{

And the harnesses last a lifetime.

Take care, may overworked grave digger Igor “It’s a Dirty Job But Somebody’s Got To Do It” Hunchord be with you, and gesundheit.

Workplace mugs? Try toothbrushes at home. We all live in a cloud of poo according to Mythbusters.

I can’t believe it! No comic I read today mentioned that today is Veterans Day (or Armistice Day)! Don’t we honor the Vets anymore!

My Great-uncle was a geneticist at Oak Ridge National Labs and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Go ‘Heels!). Usual Christmas gifts were “thinkers” like a Chess or Go set. The absolute best gift from him was a large capped test tube chock full of his test subjects – fruit flies. Did you know that it’s damn near impossible to get just one fruit fly out of a test tube full of them?

For some reason, just gift certificates from then on.

Someone tell me how does a lamp rot???

Ooo! Soylent Green coming soon!

People go to school and get degrees and then examine coffee mugs for poop. Why?

One thing to say!Government: Soylent Green!

can you imagine how well lit the graveyards would be IF – and we could absolutely light up the darker parts of the big cities – come on Elon let’s get cracking!!!! by the way, don’t ask about your uncovered toothbrush in the bathroom. myth busters did a great show on that.

It’s nice to know that as we perish as a species from climate change, our dead bodies will be able to produce green electricity for the few remaining survivors.

The first image is really scary honest

Who needs oil pipelines when you have dead bodies? Energy crisis solved!

Wasn’t that more or less the plot of The Matrix?

Converting corpses into electricity, shocking!

Does the presence of fecal matter imply the drinker is/was an a$$hole, or just using the wrong orifice?

Or you could just burn the bodies.

How does anyone expect that bacteria to make it into your fecal material, if you don’t ingest it first?

So 20% of office worker don’t wash their hands after wiping their backside. Do we really need to know this?

Have you never heard of the Matrix? We’re all just batteries for the machine, man. I know, because I took the red pill, man.

Back when I worked in an office, there were times I would want to fill my mug and go to the restroom in one run. I opted to leave my mug in the kitchen, because it would look wrong to take the mug into the restroom. This sometimes meant forgetting my mug until long after I returned to my desk, but I feel better now about not doing the implied alternative.

Just what we need; Soylent Green electricity!

Here is the video that the last panel is referring to. By the great Carl Sagan. https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g

According to Google, the first animal in space was the dog Laika aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on November 3 1957.

Nothing like a nice, hot cup of fecal to start the day.

“Sarl Cagan”??? Looks as though author John Graziano has been reading JasonF*rtSmeller.