Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 15, 2015
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At Knight's Spider Web Farm in Williamstown, VT, Will Knight creates art by harvesting and lacquering spider webs. Are we there yet? The world's shortest commercial flight- between the Westray and Papa Westray Orkney Islands- can be completed in just 47 seconds! The red rusty planet! Mars isn't actually red- it's you is a result of iron rusting!
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
That IS a rather short plane ride. How many miles/kilometers’ difference is that?
hawgowar over 9 years ago
Wow with almost no water and a low oxygen content in a very thin and usually quite chilly atmosphere, I’m surprised there is rust.
KZ71 over 9 years ago
Just a little bit of each will do it. Those tiny levels are also why after thousands of years of existence, Mars is STILL rusting and we don’t know it as the Swiss Cheese Planet. :-)
Space_cat over 9 years ago
47 seconds for the flight, 2 hours on each end for TSA security, and 60 minutes to get your bags and get to your car.I think swimming may be faster, at least the sharks are friendlier than the TSA agents and don’t grope as much.
aimlesscruzr over 9 years ago
To drive from airport to airport, it’s an hour, including ferry.
artimusvex over 9 years ago
Iron rusting? Are you serious? Is the iron on the surface of Mars? It’s like saying Earth isn’t blue because that’s just the water in the ocean.
Jogger2 over 9 years ago
So Mars isn’t red because scientists figured out why it is red.
bmillard over 9 years ago
My truck is not red, either. That’s just the color of the paint on it’s surface… :-/ ?
Fan o’ Lio. over 9 years ago
Ok it’s not red it’s rust colored.
Tarredandfeathered over 9 years ago
Plenty of Oxygen.IN the Rust.That’s a large part of why the remaining atmosphere is so Thin..