Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 02, 2024

If you took all the PB I’ve ever consumed in 74 years, it wouldn’t coat a knife…I dislike the smell of PB

However, no one knows how to get enough jelly and bread into the canyon to make it worthwhile.

" He ain’t heavy…he’s my son…"

Since the oceans cover 71% of Earth, is it surprising that about 80% of the volcanoes happen there?

How many years would it be before there was no canyon?

What depth would the peanut butter be? 5mm or a 10 feet?

Walk it off, boss;)

The water of a small pool, 163 gallons, is more than enough to cover the whole surface of the Grand Canyon… one molecule deep :D

I was going to make a percent of earth covered in ocean / how thick was the PB but others beat me to it.

One hopes the park rangers would stop anyone from leaving a mess like that on the canyon floor.

PB and the Grand Canyon: what is the mathematical formula relevant to this analogy; and who is it who has so much time on their hands that they generate these irrelevant illustrations for us?

And – how much jelly was consumed with that peanut butter?

Creamy or chunky?

How thick would the layer of peanut butter be. I mean this doesn’t really tell me how much peanut butter we eat.

You could coat the floor of the Grand Canyon with the peanut butter from one sandwich if you spread it thin enough.

Okay, peanut butter settled. Now about all that cream cheese….

You get the peanut butter, I’ll get the pretzels!

Saying there is enough peanut butter to cover the floor of the Grand Canyon has little meaning without including the thickness of said peanut butter.

That having been said, I wonder what is the minimum thickness of a layer of peanut butter?

Challenge accepted. starts amassing PB

BTW, today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.

Americans eat approximately 3 pounds of peanut butter per person per year. That’s about 700 million pounds per year, enough to coat the floor of the Grand Canyon! It takes almost 850 peanuts to make an 18 oz jar of peanut butter. One (1) acre of peanuts will make 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches!

Volcanoes erupt when fresh magma produced in the Earth’s mantle reaches the surface, either via an open vent or by breaking the rock above it.

This actually happens all the time, with about 70 volcanoes erupting every year – of these, around 20 erupt each day. Iceland has an estimated 30 volcanic ‘systems’, discrete zones where an eruption can occur, either from an established cone or from new fissures (cracks in Earth’s surface).

In fact, Iceland – which straddles the join between the North American Plate to the west and the Eurasian Plate to the east – is built entirely from volcanic rock.

The plates are moving apart at about the same rate as your fingernails grow, allowing new magma to rise and feed eruptions that happen somewhere on the island every few years. Elsewhere, many of the currently active volcanoes are located above so-called subduction zones, where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another.

As the subducting plate pushes further into the Earth, it begins to melt, sweating out the magma that feeds the volcanoes above. Typically, these magmas are stickier and more gas-rich than those that erupted in Iceland – and they can feed far bigger, explosive, and deadlier eruptions.

Submarine volcanoes are underwater vents or fissures in the Earth’s surface from which magma can erupt. Many submarine volcanoes are located near areas of tectonic plate formation, known as mid-ocean ridges. The volcanoes at mid-ocean ridges alone are estimated to account for 75% of the magma output on Earth. Although most submarine volcanoes are located in the depths of seas and oceans, some also exist in shallow water, and these can discharge material into the atmosphere during an eruption. The total number of submarine volcanoes is estimated to be over one million (most are now extinct) of which some 75,000 rise more than 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) above the seabed. Only 119 submarine volcanoes in Earth’s oceans and seas are known to have erupted during the last 11,700 years.

Last time I was at the Grand Canyon the water was so muddy it looked like chocolate milk so It doesn’t surprise me about the peanut butter.