Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 16, 2012
Transcript:
For centuries, tombs of the dead along China's Fujian coast and Japan's Ryukyu Islands have been built in the shape of a turtle shell! From the guide diagram showing positions of explosive material The United States Department of Agriculture as official published procedures for blowing up animal carcasses with explosives! When astronaut John Glenn returned from the Mercury 6 mission as the first American to orbit the earth, 3474 tons of confetti were thrown during a parade in his honor in the streets of New York City!
upanddown17 over 12 years ago
I believe it was Mercury 7.
el8 over 12 years ago
let’s not forget Ham
CHAZ.SHIELDS over 12 years ago
Grissom did receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor (posthumously)
zipperg over 12 years ago
It was the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission aboard the spacecraft named Freedom 7.
alan.gurka over 12 years ago
So, do you lay the sticks of dynamite on top of the carcass, underneath it, or do you have to insert them within for maximum effect?
ghcater over 12 years ago
Glenn was the only Marine of the Mercury 7. Carpenter was in the Navy along with Shepard and Schirra. The other three were USAF. They were kinda into political correctness even then: 3 Navy, 3 AF, 1 Marine – the Army having no jet test pilots to try out it seems.
Stagger Lee over 12 years ago
Virgil Ivan Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967), (Lt Col, USAF), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly in space, and the first member of the NASA Astronaut Corps to fly in space twiceOn July 21, 1961, Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4, popularly known as Liberty Bell 7. This was a suborbital flight which lasted 15 minutes and 37 seconds.
—Wikipedia
Mostly Water Premium Member over 12 years ago
Hopefully TSA will catch that horse before it gets through boarding.
Fan o’ Lio. over 12 years ago
I’ve heard of beating a dead horse, but this is ridiculous.
tuslog64 over 12 years ago
Just one inserted as a suppository should do the trick.
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
An explosion might destroy ‘the body of evidence’!
upanddown17 over 12 years ago
As the light bulb turns on in my head, Glenn’s spaceflight was named Friendship 7.