Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 08, 2014
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! WHEW! The earth is slowing down! The rotation of the earth slows by 0.002 seconds per century, and in 1800 million years' time, Earth days will be 25 hours long. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Hewlett-Packard all started out in home garages. Lion tamers use chairs in their acts because they four points of the chair legs confuse the lion and deter it from a focused attack.
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
So what will the 25th hour be called as?
sarazan7 over 10 years ago
By that time I doubt we’ll have to worry about it.
Space_cat over 10 years ago
In a billion it will be 30 hours long.
stlmaddog5 over 10 years ago
When the day is 25 hours long, there will only be 350 days in a year. 50 weeks to a year. Leap year will have to be changed also. I’m not sure but I think it will about every 6 years instead of 4. But, as Cooncat said, I won’t be worrying about it.
jack fairbanks over 10 years ago
Tell it to Siegfried and Roy
Simon_Jester over 10 years ago
So did the Ramones
Marblemouth over 10 years ago
So did two of my businesses. Unfortunately, that is where they stayed. Probably why you never heard of them.
tuslog64 over 10 years ago
Who was the guy that used to stick his right arm in a lion’s mouth? Let’s see now, I remember, it’s right on the tip of my tongue, yeah, think, yeah, um, lets see – oh YES!It was Lefty!
Scott S over 10 years ago
So what does Al Gore say we need to do to stop that?
Stephen Gilberg over 10 years ago
I think I’ll carry a plush spider in case of a lion attack.
tazz555 over 10 years ago
I feel sorry for the saps who have to rework the clocks if earth is still around then. How do you work in 25 hours? I mean if it was 26 we would get a 13 o clock both ways…but 25 hours would have to rewrite everything about the clock.
Yeah you can say they’ll have 13 o clock but then it will be the only hour not repeated
spaced man spliff over 10 years ago
I feel sorry for the saps who have to rework the clocks if earth is still around then. How do you work in 25 hours? I mean if it was 26 we would get a 13 o clock both ways…but 25 hours would have to rewrite everything about the clock.Yeah you can say they’ll have 13 o clock but then it will be the only hour not repeated-Go on military ‘25-hour’ time !!
Phil721 over 10 years ago
The slowing of the earth’s rotation is all George Bush’s fault and is caused by a vast right wing cospiracy.
Phil721 over 10 years ago
That’s conspiracy