Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 07, 2011
October 06, 2011
October 08, 2011
Transcript:
Our solar system rotates around the Milky Way galaxy at a speed of 137 miles a second, but takes 250 million years to make a single round-trip! All of the world's tiny, shrimp like Antarctic krill outweigh Earth's entire human population! Richard Gibson of Lafayette, LA., USA, has been featured as a submitter and more than 600 incredible facts to Believe it or not! If you would like to submit, you can do it online at: //www.ripleys.com/submit/
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FatTonyBalducci about 13 years ago
Wake me when we pass this spot again!
Tog about 13 years ago
I always knew I’ve spent my life just going round in circles.
benklaz about 13 years ago
Did Richard Gibson submit this one?
StelBel about 13 years ago
No one wants to comment on the Antarctic krill? I, for one, find that pretty amazing and am not sure I do believe it …….or not.
jonvuk about 13 years ago
MATH!!!!137miles/sec and it takes 250 million years to make a round trip.Then…In 250M yr there are …(250M yr. × 365.25 day/yr x 24 hr/day x 60 min/hr x 60 sec/min) = 7 889 400 000 000 000 secondsAnd at 137 miles/sec then we have traveled.(137 miles/sec x 7.8894×10^15) = 1.0808478×10^18 miles.That is1 080 847 800 000 000 000 milesNote.The distance from Earth to the Sun is 93 000 000 milesThe distance from Earth to Pluto is 2 907 000 000 miles The distance from Earth to nearest star 24,925,000,000,000 milesThe distance from Earth to the nearest galaxy is 1.05225147 × 10^18 milesLOOK OUT WE ARE GOING TO CRASH!
josietn about 13 years ago
Wouldn’t it be that our solar system REVOLVES around…..instead of rotates??
dickn2000c about 13 years ago
I would have to say Richard Gibson needs to get a life!
Puddleglum2 about 13 years ago
And it came to pass…Btw, we only have about about 249,994,000 years to go, according to Archbishop Ussher’s chronology.
Puddleglum2 about 13 years ago
But the whales that eat the krill don’t outweigh the earth’s entire human population?
Puddleglum2 about 13 years ago
Strictly speaking, isn’t a round trip straight out and back, more or less, (rather than an orbit)?
Puddleglum2 about 13 years ago
Maybe I’m too picky; perhaps it’s round trip either way.
Stephen Gilberg about 13 years ago
Gibson is Major Healey?
Tracy King about 13 years ago
anyone have any old bay seasoning? i’m off to the Antarctic!
iced tea about 13 years ago
Are Antarctic krill those sea monkeys kids used to send for and get jipped on?
tuslog64 about 13 years ago
Read somewhere that insects also outweigh us.