Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 22, 2023

Selia Lalgado One time I was 21 years old altogether.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

Maybe there were over 2 million trees planted, but I don’t think they did it by themselves. That would be over 270 trees per day on average. They probably had help from others.

That antelope’s life span must be around three days? OK, the dessert rat is in the same boat. It gets the water it needs from the food it eats and I presume it is the same for that species of antelope. I know, biology majors are a pain,

274 trees per day. Used a machine. Diesel powered sapling plugger.

A factoid similar to the Greenbank telescope: The island of Hawaii allows only sodium street lamps on the island so that they don’t interfere with the telescopes on Mauna Kea.

Greenbank, WV can ban cell phones and wifi because only 74 people live there!

That’s nothing. I planted over 2.7 million blades of grass in just one season. ~ Davey “Divot” McGolfcourse, seedy but dedicated

May the shored be with you as they are with me. And gesundheit.

The Salgados could give a lesson to Justin Trudeau who promised to plant two BILLION trees. He’s only got 1,975,000,000 to go.

Greenbank WV doesn’t allow microwave ovens either.

Pearl et al, when we acquired this baren old farm, we planted over 1000 conifer seedlings a day for several weeks. We were bushed but it is possible.

I’m pretty sure everyone can survive their entire life without drinking water. Granted, their lives might not be very long…

I guess that antelope gets all the moisture it needs from its food.

West Virginia? That tells you all you need to know.

W.C. Fields also survived his entire life without drinking water

That’s because Generic Antelopes prefer their scotch without water

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Look up the United States National Radio Quiet Zone on Wikipedia. System won’t let me post link.

The gerenuk antelope? Big deal. I can survive my entire life without ever taking a drink of water, too. True, I might not live very long, but I could do it.

But what if aliens prefer to make first contact with a cell phone and not a satellite dish?

Any living being can go its entire life without taking a drink of water. :)

Had to lookup how the Gerenuk Antelope could live without water …… found …… They do not eat grass and do not require water. They can get enough moisture from the plant life they eat and can survive in dry thornbush country and even in the desert. ………….. :)

When it started, the SETI@home project sent work units that were created using data from the Arecibo radio telescope. At some point, they added work units that were created from the Green Bank observitory.

This cartoon is somewhat misleading. The telescope in Greenbank is a RADIO telescope: Ergo, the need for a radio quiet zone. This is not made clear in the cartoon.