Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 12, 2019

What great idiot thought that would help a person breathe? Proof that dumb has been around since the beginning.

So that is where the phrase ‘blowing smoke up your/their a$$’ comes from.

A hydro-powered computer sounds unbelievable to me.

In 1936 Soviet scientist Lukyanov built an analog water computer

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338106

Oh, goody! More than an hour has passed, but I still get to be the first one to point out that planes don’t go very fast in the open ocean.

Was that computer installed on a boat?

Policeman: “Sir… what are you doing?” Jack the Ripper’s brother: “He’s drowning. I’m trying to resuscitate him.” Policeman: “OK. Carry on.” :D Later on, he wrote a report that ended up buried somewhere, a historian found it… then, the WWW showed up!

The birth of some or other movement.

Didn’t the Chinese use computers that ran on fingers?

Could’ve done without the graphic representation of the smoke enema…

Don’t inhale!!!!!

Amazing but the water computers solved analog partial differential equations for a variety of industries up into the 1980’s when digital computer became powerful enough to replace them.

Did the computer run on the land too? And did his shoes byte?

Smoking is injurious to health, folks. Whether inhaled from your mouth or through your posterior.

For god’s sake just don’t inhale…

Smoke enemas… I wonder what “plant” that smoke came from.

The smoke enema also originated a certain phrase used to describe one person’s attempt to lie to another.