Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 18, 2019

The Fat Salvage Committee had a radio ad. I heard it on Radio Bloopers. It encouraged all housewives to get their “fat cans” in to donate for the troops.

I listen to old time radio and I hear ads about saving fat among other things.

Why didn’t RBIoN give the 16-year-old’s name?

That’s why a half hour on the treadmill takes so long

At first I thought Kansas boy was John Lennon. Looks a little bit like him.

Twenty years after the end of the war my parents still had a yellow ceramic crock in the back of the fridge for rendered bacon fat.

Speaking of saving cooking fat, did anyone of you have a bowl of excess bacon grease from frying bacon in a bowl on top of your stove to use for frying? Sure made food taste better than olive oil, but not good for you.

I wonder if the explosives smelled like bacon?

3 days ago, the R’sBION comic mentioned in the comments about urine’s value for making explosives.

the Ulyssesite must be a modern-day Dougie Howser or something

Time (t) is a constant factor, as is Distance (d). Velocity (v) is a variable calculated as v=d/t. So according to Einstein’s theory of space time, the faster you travel the slower time APPEARS to pass from the perspective of the traveler.

As a set of examples:

I can walk 1 mile in 14 minutes. If I run that same mile I can travel the distance in 8 minutes, but driving takes less than one minute (local highway speed limit is 70 mph)

Distance and time remain constant measurements 1 mile and time still passes as 1 second per second ONLY the velocity of my passage alters. I have not “slowed” time down or altered anything other than the amount of time I used to get from point A to point B.

Time doesn’t slow down for anyone even going near light speed—all clocks in all relatively moving inertial frames go at the same rate. Others who measure superspeeders will see their (the superspeeders’) clocks run slower—but the superspeeders themselves will notice no time changes at all. I’d rate this part of the strip deceptive.

If fat is explosive, I’m going on a diet.

Harvard just ain’t what it used to be.

That bit about time is misleading, tho I’ve seen it before. If you traveled super fast for one minute, your watch would register less than a minute. From an outside perspective, yes, that’s a slowing of time, but to you, it would be just the opposite.

Wrong. Time is relative. For you, time doesn’t pass any faster or slower. You won’t find any difference in passage of time in your frame of reference. If you’re moving fast enough, and you compare your clock with a similar clock of same accuracy which is in another frame of reference which moves slower than yours, then, in comparison, your clock would be slower than the other one, as more time would’ve elapsed on that clock in the slower frame of reference. This is the time dilation effect that Einstein explained in his special relativity. Add gravitational effects to it, and that becomes the general relativity.

Glycerine was isolated from the fat to produce nitroglycerine and its analogs. The soap also produced had value in the production of lubricants such lithium grease.

So think about that the next time you’re tempted to light your bacon…

That boy may be the reincarnation of William James Sidis, who also graduated from Harvard when he was very young. His full story’s on Wikipedia.

That kid is smarter than that loser Governor of Kansas.

I (Born in 1936) remember seeing a sign in the butcher shop we frequented reading, “Ladies bring your fat cans in here.”

So that’s why every commercial airline flight I’ve ever been on seems to take forever to arrive at its destination.