Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 04, 2013
September 03, 2013
September 05, 2013
Transcript:
The wheel spider of Africa's Namib Desert curls its legs into a ball and rolls down sand dunes in order to escape predators! NASA has drawn up plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid from deep space in a giant bag and toe it into lunar orbit so that astronauts can land on it! In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson offended the British ambassador by greeting him in pajamas and slippers!
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joe piglet Premium Member about 11 years ago
Why not put it on the moon? That right they have on been there.
Dkram about 11 years ago
Near Earth asteroids are a constant hazard to the planet..There is no need to get an asteroid moving because they are always in motion, you just need to guide it.If they can find a way to guide an asteroid into orbit around the moon, the mining prospects would be awesome..Also an asteroid would make a dandy space craft..\\//_
loner34 about 11 years ago
Since you don’t know what you are talking about, who is the idiot?
6turtle9 about 11 years ago
What about attaching a probe/robot to an asteroid that passes by earth every few/ten/twenty years and collect it again the next time it came around? Imagine the data, pictures it would collect during it’s time out in deep space.
XianProf about 11 years ago
Americans…not caring who we offend since 1776
finnygirl Premium Member about 11 years ago
http://www.webtvhub.com/awesome-nature-video-golden-wheel-spider-escapes-predators-fast/
This site shows a wheel spider escaping a parasitic wasp, at a speed equal to a car going 300 km an hour!
drexelgal about 11 years ago
You didn’t read the panel. It says that NASA intends to tow the asteroid into a LUNAR orbit, not “get it to earth”. Anyway, B. Hussein Obama has announced that NASA is now a “Muslim outreach” program, so, it will only tow CAMELS.
Stephen Gilberg about 11 years ago
Wow, I’d just heard about the wheel spider from a Vsauce video the same day.
Ulo about 11 years ago
It’d be great if the writers of the strip would wait, say, at least a year before regurgitating something that was on Yahoo news.Doing it the same week is just dumb and doesn’t take much skill.