Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 14, 2018

Well, who’s going to clean up those 40 tons of lunar rubbish? (Why did the Chinese man swallow a cigarette lighter in 1998 anyway?)

So, that’s what the hyoomans did after going to the moon. Hyoomans — trashing earth and space alike.

Yes, and all that trash only weighs around 6700 lbs, since the weight of an object depends upon local gravity, and the Earth’s gravity is six time that of the moon.

Yeah, but where we go, real trash goes. ~ Kanye West

Yes, I know… it’s made in China but still a spacecraft. Be nice, don’t call it trash :D

You know what they say, one moon’s junk is another moon’s treasure…….

I have my don’t believe that lighter story. Many other nondigestible items such as marbles, coins, keys, small toys, etc. have been swallowed and passed out of the body in one to two days so I sincerely doubt the lighter could have stayed in the patient’s for 20 years

BTW, it isn’t 20 tons of garbage, exactly – a great deal of the weight is crashed space vehicles, or parts thereof.

There “is” 40000 pounds?

. . . this fawn was found and it had died. :’( https://www.livescience.com/62571-two-headed-deer-minnesota.html

:-( (and they think rocket scientists are so smart)

Well, trash pickup day is Friday.

Re the Chinese guy – I am 1 of 9 kids, so my theory is that one of his siblings wanted to use the lighter and he swallowed it rather than hand it to the sibling. :-D

How much moon trash is on our planet? (Trick question?)

I think he was probably lit at the time.