Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 16, 2016
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Bowhead whales can live to be over 200 years old, meaning there could be some alive today that existed before Herman Melville published Moby Dick in 1851. The inventor of the Toll House chocolate chip cookie, Ruth Graves Wakefield, sold her recipe to Nestle for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate. After spending 10 years traveling through space, the New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto just 72 seconds earlier than was originally predicted.
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oldpine52 almost 8 years ago
The New Horizons must of caught a tail wind.
Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
Seeing as New Horizons made it to Pluto, now what? Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
Bilan almost 8 years ago
Coincidentally, New Horizons took off just seven months before Pluto was demoted.
Brian G Premium Member almost 8 years ago
If it doesn’t actually land on Pluto, what is the definition of “Reaching Pluto” that is so precise as to be timed to the second?
J Short almost 8 years ago
72 seconds?How far off can you get? Did the guy in charge use a slide rule?
Knightman Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Must caught 1 green light along the way!!!
Chad Cheetah almost 8 years ago
That’s some amazing calculations right there
PMark almost 8 years ago
That’s an error of 0.0000228%. Not bad.
tom_wright almost 8 years ago
Set up the “New Horizons” Real Estate office. You can still get a bungalow overlooking the frozen methane lake at a reasonable price. When Pluto was re-classified as something other than a full-fledged planet Real Estate prices plummeted, but they’ve recovered nicely now.
Max Starman Jones almost 8 years ago
Google Maps had predicted the extra 72 seconds, but that was an alternative route to avoid tolls.
Iceman47 almost 8 years ago
Ruth Graves Wakefield could be the original " chocoholic".
Iceman47 almost 8 years ago
Other than the fact that a bowhead and Moby Dick were both whales, they have little else in common with Melville’s book. Moby Dick was characterized as a sperm whale.
SeaFox10 almost 8 years ago
Ruth wasn’t too smart, was she?!
Julie-21 almost 8 years ago
I went to visit Pluto recently and when I got there it was gone.
tuslog1964 almost 8 years ago
Pluto is what Pluto is-
regardless of how we classify it.
danketaz Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Must have stopped to ask directions.
Mariposamia almost 8 years ago
Always better early than late!
chain gang charlie almost 8 years ago
So what?Benito Mussolini made the Italian trains run ON Time!90 years ago!Try that now!
platyfurmany almost 8 years ago
To have hit their target so precisely and so close to the time predicted, NASA achieved the same precision as having to shoot a bullet from Earth orbit and hit a sheet of paper orbiting the Moon edge on and split the sheet in two within a thousandth of a second of projected time.