Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 03, 2012
January 02, 2012
January 04, 2012
Transcript:
To emphasize a lesson about cooperation at his church, Kirk Mullenix of Greencastle, PA, USA, rested his 2 ton truck on supports made only of 150 paper cups! The kilogram is the only international measurement still officially defined by a man-made example- a cylinder of metal! Gold Farmers The business of collecting and selling in game currencies for massive multiplayer online games is worth $3 billion US dollars a year!
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Veridian almost 13 years ago
We’re GAMERS….We Have Lots of Lives! And remember Boys and Girls: Once you pull the Pin from Mr. Grenade He is No Longer Your Friend! :-)
milano99 almost 13 years ago
90% platinum, 10% iridium. At least, that was the original cylinder.
Greg Y almost 13 years ago
The Kilogram is losing weight! (or is it mass?)http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_kilogram/all/1
i_am_the_jam almost 13 years ago
Odd, I thought the kilogram was defined as 1 cubic decimeter/1 liter of pure water at 0ºC.
oldpine52 almost 13 years ago
Or tax them.
Puddleglum2 almost 13 years ago
What happens if the church has 150 members with more than 2 tons of ‘weight’ on them, and it isn’t evenly distributed?Okay, I get the point; it’s the principle of the thing.
Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Some of those “game geeks” are living in houses bigger than all of ours and their bank accounts look like someone who found oil in their backyard! More power to them! That’s what free enterprise is about.
iced tea almost 13 years ago
They must’ve been really durable paper clips!
Terinmo almost 13 years ago
In China these gamers are small children payed very little money to make the Chinese government lots of money. And its not just children Chinese prisoners are put at a computer to make money for their government also,
Terinmo almost 13 years ago
The game that is being referred to is World of Warcraft. So anyone out there buying gold on the site through one of the spam links, just remember where your money is going.
hossblacksilver almost 13 years ago
Yeah, and a good chunk of that farming is hijacking other people’s accounts and selling off anything of value, liquidating the in game currency for real world currency and dumping the account before the powers that be catch them.