Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 25, 2020

I guess that yetis don’t have cell phones.

[AAA on the phone] “Okay, hold on, could you repeat the part about the Sherpa again?”

But does that phone actually work?

If that mini moon was discovered two months ago, will NASA be able to send man to land thereon?

C’mon baby, let’s hop!

Hey, 2020 CD3, come back when you can stay longer.

Of course there is a phone booth on siachen glacier. After all Super Sherpa needs a place to change clothes.

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When you’re a frog that ugly, you need to try anything to get a mate…

Even the yeti have to call home occasionally.

[CORRECT CHANGE ONLY!]

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!”

Co-worker: If you think you are a better service tech than me, let’s see you install a phone line 20,000 above sea level in the Himalayas.

Service tech: Hold my beer!

And so, the legend began!

googled it, path matching atlasobscura com places siachen-glacier

> Soldiers sent to Siachen know they’ll be serving in a bitter and inhospitable environment. They also know that they’ll be arriving at the highest battleground on Earth, a fact recognized by Guinness World Records. They might also end up stationed at the world’s highest military base, which sits on a ridge up above the glacier at an altitude of around 19,685 feet. Other records created by this strange conflict include the world’s highest helipad and the world’s highest telephone booth, both installed on the glacier by India.

That’s right, folks. This world’s highest telephone booth is in incredible India. And the cartoonist did not mention that.

I looked up the frog to see a photo of it. I also learned something even more weird than their “hair.” They break their own bones to create retractable class! It’s nuts!

The 2nd moon is already gone:

Our (former) minimoon, known formally as 2020 CD3, was officially identified in February after it had been orbiting our planet for at least a year, astronomers estimate. This happy little surprise revealed what is most likely a small, 3-foot-wide (0.9 meters) space rock. Researchers think that gravitational forces flung the tiny space rock into our orbit, where it hung out for so long.

Now, astronomers think that our new minimoon has been flung out yet again and is back on a journey to enter an orbit around the sun. “There’s no question it was still in orbit around the Earth in early February, and there’s no question now that it’s in orbit around the sun,” Bill Gray, an astronomy-software developer, told the Atlantic. 2020 CD3 likely left our orbit on March 7, Gray told the Atlantic.

https://www.space.com/minimoon-2020-cd3-gone-earth-orbit.html