Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 28, 2023

You can cut me wide open to get that kidney stone, imagine passing that?

Which was more expensive and/or futile, the sample of the Earth’s mantle or the sample of an asteroid a billion miles away?

Is it me or does that stone house look like a hippo?

In theory, physicists knew that antimatter should behave just like matter under gravity’s pull. But until now, no one had ever seen it happen.

BION Scientific American and the BBC

That 5.26 in. (133.604) mm stone had to be surgically removed, as a 4 mm stone has an 80% chance of passing on its own, and a 5 mm stone has a 20% chance of passing without assistance. I know, not just from nursing school, but I’ve had over five stones. One was 10 mm, but it broke up before I could schedule lithotripsy. BTW, they hurt.

Having had two tiny but incredibly painful kidney stones, all I can say about Officer Coonghe is Yeeeeooooooooow!

Oh no! Now the earth is deflating!

Rocky Mantle – Mickey’s brother, never made the big leagues

Who’s Rocky Mantle?

Do you paint the rest of the house to match or contrast the boulders?

And what is their insulation R value?

After the sample of the Earth’s mantle, the Mole Men came up the hole and Luke Benson went rabid.

I hope the poor man got to keep his kidney stone. Seems only fair.

I dunno about Portugal, but there’s a Casa de Pendejo right across the street from me here in the US

I thougft it was Mickey’s Mantle!

They found a 90 mile long 5 billion ton kidney stone in the earth’s mantle. That’s why we’ve been having all these earthquakes.

Canistus’ kidney knew how to rock! Heavy dude! Uber-tubular! ;-p

Canistus needs to drink more water to keep his plumbing clean.

We have an inherited old mantle clock that we have named “Mickey”.

STRANGELY BELIEVE IT

When Beavis and Butthead saw the sectional diagram of the subterranean Earth, one said to the other…. “Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core.”

The other answered…. “Heh heh heh…. You said ‘inner core’….”

I’m surprised they didn’t use the ultra-sonic probes to shatter the stone so it could be extracted laparoscopically

Doesn’t the Earth spit those out every time a volcano has an eruption?