Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 20, 2022

How nice: three astronomy-themed tidbits.

I guess Perseus doesn’t know the woords.

Any chance it was that volcano that ended life on Mars??

You like the Mount Olympus, ah?

The largest mountain noticed thus far.

…so then would that make the surrounding area the lowest valley in the solar system?

If a star eats a planet does flatulence produce a gas giant?

Begs the question: Is earth an hors d’ oeuvre?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea-hea, yea-hea, yea-hea yea-hea, The mountains high and the valleys so deep, Cant get across to the other si-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hide, Dont ya give up baby, dont you cry, Dont ya give up till I reach the other si-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-hide

Take care, may eschewed but prolific and often bruised hummer Heather “Hmmm Hm Hmmmmmmmmm Hmm Hmmm Hmm” Simpletord be with you, and gesundheit.

Supposedly, that is what will happen to the inner planets in our Solar System when the sun becomes a Red Giant. I wonder if that is what is meant…

Don’t all stars eat their planets when they go Super Nova?

Olympus Mons volcano looks more like a plateau than a mountain…

i hum in B flat

an interesting thing about Olympus Mons is that you actually can’t see it from the surface of the planet (that was the joke in Futurama when the Professor indicated they had arrived at the volcano and Fry responded “Where?”) Yes it is so tall that the peak is almost in space, but the base of it is so wide the average slope is very gentle, I think it’s around 7 degrees? Because it has such a shallow slope the peak of the mountain is actually below Mars’ horizon, so you never actually see it while you’re standing on it. “Climbing” Olympus Mons would actually be more like a very long hike where you eventually end up at the volcanic crater, and your only indication that you’ve raised in elevation would be that the sky is black because there is so little atmosphere left

Scientists have determined that the Earth has a resonant frequency, just like a black hole does.

The planet resonates at a low B note. However if you were flying away in a space ship the frequency would drop due to the doppler effect, and the Earth would B flat.

Good plan to make our planet so toxic that the sun isn’t tempted to eat it.

You obviously haven’t visited the mountains of Uranus.

Scientists have finally figured out what happened to all the water that used be on Mars.

Turns out, the planet was once occupied by Nestle.

An alien’s report to command central about finding a planet with 7.5 billion dead.

“They’re all dead but their assess are spotless, sir.”

Thanks Charmin, et al.

I thought they said that in space, no one can hear a B Flat.

Three outer space entries today. RBION is moving from Animal Planet to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.

It’s getting late - but

A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.

He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.

So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies.

The head monk, says, “We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.”

He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn’t been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot.

So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him.

He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing.

“We missed the R !We missed the R !We missed the R !’

His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is weeping uncontrollably.

The young monk asks the old abbot, “What’s wrong, father?”

Fighting back tears, the old abbot chokes out "The word was…

CELEBRATE!!!"

Until next time.

Boudreaux also went on an all expenses paid trip to New York City.

He was walking around the city and saw Emeril Lagasse’s restaurant.Thinking, now there’s a fine Louisiana man I’ll just go myself in dar and got me sumtin to eat.

He gets seated and the waitress gets his order.He’s enjoying his meal when the waitress comes by his table and ask if there is anything he needs?

Why sho day is! I would like me some a$$.The waitress gets mad and tells him, " This is an upscale establishment and we do not do those things sir," and she storms off.

About 15 minutes later she comes back to his table and ask the same thing.Boudreaux answers, That he still would like some a$$.Well, she stomps off in a huff.

She comes back a third time and ask if there would be anything else?He answers the same. She takes him by the hand and leads him to a back room.

When they are done and he’s back at his table, she ask him again if there would be anything else that he needed?

He says, Ma’am, that was something else. Sure was fine.But I would still like some a$$ for my tea.

You gots to wash your pronouncements or yous’ll end up in a fine heap o’trouble. Yessir.