Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 19, 2011
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Transcript:
It took Alaian Spiderman Robert more than 6 hours to scale the exterior of the 2717 foot tall Buji Khalifa Tower on March 28, 2011! Coral reefs have cleaning stations which animals visit to be cleaned by shrimp and fish that specialize in eating parasites off the other marine life! The planet Venus has winds that race around it surfaced about 60 times faster than the speed of the planet's rotation!
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Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
@Gweedo Murray,“Windmills of Your Mind” – Dusty SpringfieldHere’s the song for your thought!
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
The fish are too busy eating parasites off (not off of) other marine life. They don’t have time to ‘scale’ the tower.
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
That’s even faster than the speed of all the injuries to the Red Sox’ pitching ‘rotation’.
jpsomebody over 13 years ago
How do they figure out which wind won the race?
runar over 13 years ago
Yes, but the speed of Venus’ rotation at its equator is only 6.5 km/h (for comparison, Earth’s equator moves at 1,670 km/h. Venus rotates (in retrograde) in 243 Earth days, which is the slowest of any planet in our system. The surprising thing is that Earth doesn’t have more violent winds – I suspect the reason has something to do with distance from the sun.
moe_the_cat over 13 years ago
It must be a sign of age; whenever I see someone scaling a building I think of them as a “human fly” rather than a “spiderman”
tuslog64 over 13 years ago
6 hours to go up, 10 seconds to come back down if he’d lost his grip!
strodgers over 13 years ago
@spirit2002 Yeah right, and the worst stench comes from anyone connected to the DNC.