Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 18, 2014

I have one word concerning torpedo juice: yuck.

The suits were not left outside the lander, you know.

Every time they re-entered the lander, they brought moon dust inside.

An ex-navy man once told me told me of sailors who drank shoe polish after filtering it through a piece of bread.I’m not sure I believe that.

Does moon dust smell like black powder, or smokeless?

I had a professor once who had been on a submarine in WWII who regaled the class (early 1970’s) with tales of him and/or his shipmates drinking just about everything, including Aqua Velva aftershave. Not sure whether I believed him, but I sure wouldn’t recommend it.

And here I thought our love of gunpowder was true and genuine.

Not ’til it gets to Europe… Pa-Rump-Pump!

We put gyro cleaner alcohol in the coke cup dispenser, it was also 180 proof. It was used because it left no residue on the segments. We were allotted 5 gallons per month, more than enough to clean the Sperry compass and repeaters. Remember this, the British Navy got Rum Rads so we had to adapt and compensate at sea

NOTE: 180 proof is 90%

I once worked at a radio station where the staff had convinced management that we needed pure grain alcohol to clean the tape heads. Heee heee heee.

on tin cans we would open a #10 can of peaches and put it behind the boiler.

Buzz Aldrin commented about that in a Readers Digest article. He said the interior of the Eagle smelled like gunpowder, it was very cramped, & sleep was impossible.

But they still needed to be on top of their game in a few hours when they would lift off to rejoin the CSM orbiting the moon.

http://jalopnik.com/mans-stolen-jaguar-e-type-miraculously-found-after-46-y-1636284844

The begining of the film"The Master" showed Joaquin Phoenix as a sailor in the navey after WW2 making that crazy drink. Couldn’t believe guys did that.

as long as the ethanol was not denatured it is drinkable. 180 proof is 90% alcohol—-pretty potent. Even a 1:1 dilution with fruit juice would make a 90 proof drink….

Um, weren’t the astronauts wearing their helmets?

True, but when the galley hands conspire to supply the ingredients to run a still back aft it is darn near mutiny of Navy Regs!

totally agree