Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 29, 2012
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January 30, 2012
Transcript:
Smallpox is extinct as a natural disease, and the World Health Organization has debated for 25 years whether or not the world's last laboratory stockpile should be destroyed. James Henry Smith, a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team, was presented at his 2005 funeral in his recliner- while Steelers game highlights ran on a television! Far out and cool! Wise 1828+2650, a brown dwarf star about 30 ly away, has a surface temperature of only 80F (25C)!
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Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
That dwarf star might look good on the surface, but don’t get your hopes up!“The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s, but the earth has he given to the children of men. Psalm 115:16
hokiebird6552 over 12 years ago
Needs more debate at 6 star hotels in Switzerland, Paris, etc.
Sirzanne over 12 years ago
Sheesh… this strip is so small today that it’s hard to read the text!! What the…?!
silvrGrl123 over 12 years ago
If you’re suggesting that AshburnStadium’s comment that remaining smallpox virus stockpiles should be eradicated is outdated, then it’s you who should be paying attention: “UN Decides Not to Destroy Last Known Smallpox Stockpiles”
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/un-decides-not-to-destroy-last-known-smallpox-stockpiles/239382/
walruscarver2000 over 12 years ago
Even here, we can’t get away from the constant flow of rightwing misinformation…Believe it or not.
engineman over 12 years ago
It’s the Goldilocks star!!!!
PappyFiddle over 12 years ago
I’m gonna have my dead body fitted up with a hinge, and at the viewing my wife will have a remote. When somebody we don’t like comes thru she’ll push the button and sit me up
iced tea over 12 years ago
That was great to hear about a devoted Steelers fan and his funeral. I live near Pittsburgh and those are our boys! I heard the smallpox stockpiles are in the hands of the Russians. I even heard some years back, they destroyed the entire stockpiles.
Pygar over 12 years ago
Smallpox is still out in the wild, so a ready supply of it needs to be kept for quick manufacture of vaccine, should it be needed. All we need is for someone to dig up an unusually well preserved smallpox grave, or, as happened not so long ago, find samples of smallpox scabs tucked away in a book, anything like that… and smallpox will be out again. It’s not extinct in the wild- we’ve just been lucky. So far.
Pygar over 12 years ago
The embalming of today is intended to keep the corpse looking good long enough to get it in the ground. It’s not as if they preserve people with arsenic any more, like Elmer J. McCurdy. When they dug up Oswald, he was a mess, after no more than decades.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
the organic material being buried is only a small fraction of the “through-put” during a person’s lifetime. I’m considering cremation – why take up 1/100 of an acre for eternity?