Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 15, 2015
Transcript:
The sea otter has the thickest coat of any mammal, with a million hairs covering an area the size of a postage stamp! The pressure of water at the bottom of the ocean can crush a foam cup to the size of a thimble. When villagers near Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, India, thought vampires were killing their cattle in early 2012, officials offered a $2000 cash reward to anyone who could prove vampires exist.
Templo S.U.D. about 9 years ago
Good luck with that $2000.
Rob Rex about 9 years ago
And when no one could prove that vampires exist the farmers realized it was aliens all along.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member about 9 years ago
I remember a picture years ago in National Geographic of a styrofoam head that had been shrunk down to the size of an apple from pressure at the bottom of the ocean.
Bilan about 9 years ago
Would the styrofoam cup really be crushed, or would the air just leach out of it?
Tossle Premium Member about 9 years ago
That Vampire reward is rubbish and will never be claimed, we all know it was actually Werewolves killing the cattle.
therese_callahan2002 about 9 years ago
“Hello, Buffy? We need you here in India!”
Praetor-Max about 9 years ago
Jogger2 about 9 years ago
Technically, those coffee cups are made of expanded polystyrene foam. Styrofoam is extruded, and the word is a trade mark owned by Dow Chemical.
djbrunsfam about 9 years ago
How did they count the hairs on the sea otters?
comixbomix about 9 years ago
On the plus side, you are fairly unlikely to require a styrofoam drinking cup on the ocean floor…
rduff about 9 years ago
I was at a seminar with Bob Ballard, the seminar on which he was talking about finding the Titanic. On one dive, for giggles and grins, they put a 20 ounce styrofoam cup in the ballast tank of the robot sub Alvin before the dive. When Alvin returned, the ‘cup; was now the same size as a thimble, but it still weighed the same as before. He passed around the ’cup’. It was neat to see and feel it on your finger.
Stephen Gilberg about 9 years ago
I wanna pet an otter.
mavsrcheap about 9 years ago
Holy Cow.
artegal about 9 years ago
Let’s hope the vampires don’t get their hands on India’s nukes.
Petemejia77 about 9 years ago
Are there otter coats?Must feel nice!
louieglutz about 9 years ago
freshly imported from south america… where’s my $2k?
flowergirl19 about 9 years ago
Otters are soooooo cute!
flowergirl19 about 9 years ago
A long time ago like a hundred to two hundred years ago, otters were hunted almost to extinction for their soft furry pelts. Thank God for more people’s awareness nowadays of the horror of trophy hunting and the killing of animals for their fur.
EdDBarrow about 9 years ago
We used to occasionally place styrofoam cups from the galley onto the ROV before diving then recovering them when it came back on deck. They didn’t lose their shape – just shrunk down a lot. But we used to only dive to 2000m.
tuslog64 about 9 years ago
Styrofoam cups can’t be used to hold gasoline either!(I needed a bit of gas for a lawnmower once and all I had was a styrofoam cup. It went through the bottom without slowing down!)