Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 28, 2011
July 27, 2011
July 29, 2011
Transcript:
Prions Misshaped proteins can corrupt normal proteins at a next potential rate and become communicable diseases! A vacuum cleaner doesn't suck up dirt... It sucks up air! The dirt is merely along for the ride as the air pushes it into the vacuum from a place of high pressure too low. 17-year-old Corey Swearingen tossed a message in a bottle into the sea near Port Carnival, Fla., USA, on April 22, 2009, and it was found 3720 miles away by another 17-year-old!
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chunky77 over 13 years ago
Gee, one never tires of ‘message in the bottle’ factoids.
Jogger2 over 13 years ago
Where was it found? How long after it was tossed into the sea was it found?
purple.mug Premium Member over 13 years ago
The description of the workings of a vacuum makes no sense at all! The variation in pressure will be balanced by whatever is available to do it not just or indeed necessarily air at all. If this were not the case, vacuum pumps for water and other liquids would not work as there is no air for the liquid to ride along with.
srchief78 over 13 years ago
thats what basically a propeller does on an airplane. it creates a vacuum in front of it and the plane falls forward, and to add,,, more lift by the wings happens on top of the wing not underneath of it and a jet sucks and blows
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
Corey Swearingen is behind the times. He should get a cellphone!
Puddleglum2 over 13 years ago
“Misshaped proteins can corrupt normal proteins…”By the same token “Evil communications corrupt good manners.” I Corinthians 15:33b
tuslog64 over 13 years ago
Remember the VERY short lived commercial – Hoovers really suck?
Knightman Premium Member over 13 years ago
Darn prions.
spirit2002 over 13 years ago
The vacuum bit sucks.
Fan o’ Lio. over 13 years ago
WHERE and WHEN was it found? Those are primary points of interests in a story of this sort. Leaving them out makes this a non story.
gocomicsmember over 13 years ago
A little Googling can answer your questions for you. It got to Ireland. It was part of a science experiment, which fact was explained in the note. BTW, by the time the Irish 17-yr-old found the bottle and replied, it seems that Swearingen was 18, so though the coincidence of the ages was probably a big reason for including the story in RBIoN, the two boys are actually not the same age.
A little thought should have given a pretty good idea of where it got to, anyway, because a bottle cast in the sea off Florida that then takes a long journey, would have done so courtesy of the Gulf Stream. You can easily look up the path the GS takes.
Seems to me that the value of this strip has always been to state just enough information to get you curious and do a little research of your own. It has never been intended to tell all the details of every factoid it presents!
Seiko over 13 years ago
In the old days we got amazing shocks on BioN. Nowadays we get vacuum cleaners suck air! Be still beating heart…