Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 20, 2011
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Transcript:
Oh no you don't... That food is mine! When yellow jacket wasps compete with ants for food in New Zealand, they grab the ants and carry them away rather than kill them! Mach isn't a fixed measurement of speed! A rocket traveling at Mach 1 on earth would be going about 200 mph faster than a rocket traveling at Mach 1 on Mars! In October 2010, Daniel Collins of Raymore, MO, USA- fell into a sewer and was swept through more than a mile of pipe before he was rescued!
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ghuth over 13 years ago
That image of the guy in the pipe REALLY understates the drama. It was a 27 inch sewerage pipe. That’s not much wider than a mans shoulders! What a horrible experience.
3hourtour Premium Member over 13 years ago
..shawshank redemption pt II…
jpsomebody over 13 years ago
He has since bought the sewer and opened up a theme park.
runar over 13 years ago
Engineers and architects need to know the sound-transmitting capacities in a variety of media, incliduding air, water and various solids. There are many implications for the construction of buildings, bridges and other structures. Among other things, these equations help predict the bahavior of stuctures in winds, earthquakes and ocean activity. If you think this is useless, you’ve never heard of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It is a useful exercise to be able to compute the speed of sound in various media, temperatures and pressures; it’s something engineers and physicists learn before they get a bachelor’s degree.
Jogger2 over 13 years ago
Well, we do have to know something about the atmosphere of Mars if we want to land probes there. And we have.
oldpine52 over 13 years ago
A rocket traveling at mach at sea level will be going faster than on traveling at mach at an altitude of 20,000 feet.
mrnathat over 13 years ago
I wonder if going through all that number two made him go number two.