Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 07, 2021

Was Laika able to make it back to see the other James Dean movies?

Dean only starred in three movies: East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant.

East of Eden was the only movie released before his death (September 30, 1955).

Deixa-nos saber, senhor Bowers, quando você encontra ágatas que parecem-se o Pássaro Grande.

Poor doggie. It was sent to die in space.

Hey! I brought up the Cookie Monster geode a few strips ago! I’d really like to think Graziano reads the comments, but it was a fairly big story online anyway.

The bigger story is that there was an owl on a stick coming out of James Dean’s head.

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And we all Laika these-a comments-a.

Take care, may Vladivostok flea circus performer Itsa Bitta Itcha Horde be with you, and gesundheit.

Owls have three sets of eyelids, and as we learned last week in RBION, they have eye cones that don’t move (tunnel vision) rather than eyeballs that can move, which is why they have to twist their head around to see in different directions. Too bad they weren’t in the same BION.

Robert Francis, Ensign Willie Keith in the Caine Mutiny, had a similar fate as James Dean except he liked small airplanes.

My “Joke du Jour” goes like this. The Husband is leaving the house for an extended business trip and, as he approaches the door having kissed the wife goodbye, the phone in the hallway rings. He picks it up, says " hello, huh? How the hell should I know, call the Coast Guard!"His wife says “Who was that, Honey?” He says “I don’t know…some fool asked me if the coast was clear!”So long Joe’s gonna leave ya now!

> ..Laika became an international celebrity. The satellite and its passenger soon acquired the journalistic nickname of “Muttnik.” Contemporaneous Soviet accounts implied that the dog was kept alive for six or seven days into the mission and then euthanized with poisoned food before her oxygen supply could run out. The satellite was destroyed reentering Earth’s atmosphere on April 14, 1958. Laika’s sad fate aroused worldwide concern and sympathy.

The Russians had not yet developed the technology to come safely back down when they launched Laika in Sputnik 2, so they knew it was a one way trip. She reached orbit alive, but by the fourth orbit, the heat shielding was found to be insufficient, and she died from overheating. Five months later, after 2,570 orbits, Sputnik 2 — including Laika’s remains — disintegrated during re-entry on 14 April 1958.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

The agate rock that looked just like PeeWee Herman didn’t get near the attention that the one resembling Cookie Monster did.

I saw that agte in my newspaper. The actual picture looks a lot better and more accurate than that drawing.

Laika – “Dang, I was just sitting here, minding my own business, then whooooooosh!”

As a reward for the achievement Laika died from fear-induced heart failure. (true)

Laika did not survive the trip.

So, what you’re all saying is that the dog died…

What an elaborate plan to remove strays from the street!