Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 30, 2022

Out of this World!! HAPPY upcoming NEW YEAR

Let me guess: Jason’s first outer space flight was sixteen minutes and twenty-nine seconds. (What is Point Nemo anyway?)

They found Nemo and they are pointing him out.

Back in elementary school we were gathered into the auditorium to watch that first manned space flight on TV.

Boudreaux was sitting in his rocking chair on this nice Sunday morning leafing thru the newspaper, when he commented to Marie, “Cher, we sure gots us a smart dog, yeh. I tells him to go fetch da paper and he brings it right to me.” Marie tells him, “Oh yeh, he sure is smart, Boudreaux. We don’t even subscribes to da paper !”

for the record, that was Alan Shepard in his suborbital flight on May 5, 1961.

Their are far more atoms in a cup of water, than their are cups of water on the entire , PLANET ! ( THAT IS HARD TO BELIEVE ! )

After watching Finding Nemo, a man runs out to the pet store and buys a clown fish.

He brings the fish home and puts it into the tank, but after a few days notices that it doesn’t seem at all settled in its new home.

He remembers that in Finding Nemo, the clownfish live in an anemone, so he returns to the pet store and asks the clerk if they have any for sale. The clerk tells him they do, but explains there is a far less expensive solution. The clerks says to go down to the flower shop and buy a fern, pull off a few of the fronds and arrange them in the tank. He says the clownfish really just wants to feel hidden and this will do the job for a fraction of the price.

So the gentleman follows the clerks advice, buys a fern, arranges the fronds in the corner of his tank and sure enough the clownfish swims right in and seems completely happy.

He steps back, satisfied with the solution and thinks to himself, “With fronds like these, who needs anemones?”

i got a time share at point nemo

Another good one. Thanks

Alan Shepherd

Of the 15-minutes, 28-seconds flight, only about 5 minutes of it was in space, above the atmosphere. Plus he splashed down 300 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral, thus not in orbit at all. Even so, being shot out of the atmosphere and traveling 300 miles in 15 minutes is pretty darn fast!

Ancient philosophers also contemplated their navels

Okay, the factoid about the Space Station is a good one worthy of the BION! title.

The word “atom” is from Greek, and refers to something that can made smaller (“un-cuttable”). Take some material, say iron. Imagine cutting into smaller and smaller pieces. Some of the ancient Greek philosophers felt that, if that was done enough, one would reach the smallest possible particle that would still be iron — an “atom” of iron. If that atom were cut to be even smaller, the pieces would no longer be iron.

The word “atomic” is used outside of chemistry and nuclear physics. For example, in information technology, it is said a transaction must be atomic: If any step in processing the transaction is omitted, it’s not a transaction. It never happened.

From “The Ghost who posts”, Chihal.

https://www.gocomics.com/profile/2018972

baker and finny. Caught your late posts before I turned the page. :-)

Last one for 2022:-

Three engineers and three accountants were traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three accountants each bought tickets and watched as the three engineers bought only one ticket.

“How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asked an accountant.

“Watch and you’ll see”, answered an engineer.

They all boarded the train. The accountants took their respective seats, but the three engineers all crammed into a rest room and closed the door behind them. Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around collecting tickets. He knocked on the restroom door and said, “Ticket, please”.

The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.

The conductor took it and moved on.

The accountants saw this and agreed it was a quite clever idea. So, after the conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they got to the station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the engineers didn’t buy a ticket at all.

“How are you going to ride without a ticket”? said one perplexed accountant.

“Watch and you’ll see”, answered an engineer.

When they boarded the train, the three accountants crammed into a restroom and the three engineers crammed into another one nearby. The train departed. Shortly afterward, one of the engineers left his restroom and walked over to the restroom where the accountants were hiding. He knocked on the door and said, “Ticket, please.”

……….Birdman out.

One time I was 15 minutes and 29 seconds old altogether.

Good ones

The RBION drawing of the Mercury capsule looks an awful lot like a shuttlecock, doesn’t it?

(Shuttlecock = badminton birdie)

I remember the first manned space flight. I was in elementary school at the time. It was a big moment for America. But if it happened today, millions of people would deny it happened, hollering “FAKE NEWS”.