Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 12, 2011
August 11, 2011
August 13, 2011
Transcript:
When he heard the March, 2011, tsunami warning, 64-year-old Susumu Sugawara of Japan took his boat out to sea and rode out 60 foot waves, and he was the only boat from the island of Oshima to remain intact! Anthony Robles, a wrestler from Arizona State University, was undefeated champion his senior year (2010-2011) with a record of 36-0 despite being born with only one leg! The element bismuth is radioactive, but it has a half-life (the time it takes half a sample to decay) more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe!
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stevebarritt over 13 years ago
It’s not half of the sample, it’s the time radiation intensity will be half it’s max.
charliefarmrhere over 13 years ago
I thought that tsunami waves were far less in height & force farther out at sea (depending on how far you are out from shore), & generally only increased in height as the sea bed rose to meet shore level. Out at sea, most of the force is below the water surface.
bookworm39 over 13 years ago
Believe It or Not —The print is so small I can’t read it. Can you make it bigger??
Thanks
YodaNoob over 13 years ago
I just watched Anthony Robles on youtube and it’s no wonder he’s undefeated, having only one leg he has built up his torso and with wrestling being matched by weight class he’s got nearly twice the upper-body strength of his opponents (because he has to have that missing leg’s weight on his torso) and with the added flexibility of his leg and the challenge of having one less leg to grab at… he’s not at a disadvantage at all.. I’m not bashing him, he’s gotta’ have a lot of heart and spirit and has to have worked very hard to build himself up and do what he did.