Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 16, 2021

Here I am!

A man has been driving all night and by morning is still far from his destination. He decides to stop at the next city he comes to, and park somewhere quiet so he can get an hour or two of sleep. As luck would have it, the quiet place he chooses happens to be on one of the city’s major jogging routes. No sooner has he settled back to snooze when he hears a knocking on his window. He looks out and sees a jogger running in place.

“Yes?”

“Excuse me, sir,” the jogger says, “do you have the time?”

The man looks at the car clock and answers, “8:15”. The jogger says thanks and leaves. The man settles back again and is just dozing off when there’s another knock on the window and another jogger.

“Excuse me, sir, do you have the time?”

“8:25!”

The jogger says thanks and left. Now the man can see other joggers passing by and knows it’s only a matter of time before another one disturbs him. To avoid the problem, he gets out a pen and paper and puts a sign in his window saying, “I do not know the time!”

Once again he settles back to sleep. He’s just dozing off when there’s another knock on the window.

“Sir, sir? It’s 8:45!”

Amazing! Pillsbury created solid food for astronauts to eat.

Humans are typically born to recognize a lot of stuff that we take for granted. Even something as seemingly-simple as depth perception actually requires a lot of connections to figure out.

Is the box of the special, spatial, solid snack at the Air and Space Museum?

Research suggests that that baby has the face of a 30 year old man.

There’s a baby picture of me looking at my big sister’s face.

Babies look at faces because that’s where all the weird shmooby wooby smoochy sounds come from!

It was a consumer item, my Mom used to put them in my lunch. Maytag (the washer people) under contract to NASA made the astronauts’ food for the Apollo missions

Arby’s roast beef sandwiches taste better in space. They’re Meatier.

Looks like that baby has a full set of teeth… which would be a more amazing factoid than the information that babies are wired to look at faces is.

The right way to do a Burpee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLBImHhCXSwI remember the Space Food Sticks…

We’re all in space.

Take care, may marquee Astronomer Carl Sagord be with you, and gesundheit.

What a face on that baby…… yikes!

“Awareness advocate” is a euphemism for self-promoting narcissist

I remember space food sticks. Basically candy, and kind of a weird, doughy texture – but I did like them. I also remember they were pretty expensive.

Pre-wired? I knew it! Babies are poop and barf machines.

Oh, I remember those sticks! My favorite was chocolate.

Space Food Sticks!! remember them well! Chocolate ones were great and if you had them at lunch at school you were very popular — right up there with Snack Packs pudding-in-a-can.

The peanut butter ones were good

Space food sticks were yummy!

Who is new artist drawing this comic?

Curious about the claim about baby looking at faces. I heard of a previous study that tracked what direction the babies looked at. The first few months, they just look all over the place. Then they slowly start to look directly at faces.

I’m glad they’ve resumed the new type style. It’s so much easier on the eyes.

Not only babies! Place two dots next to each other then underline; who doesn’t see a face?

I remember space food sticks, the commercial version, very well. We thought that was very cool. They paired very well with a glass of tang…

30 in one minute? At my age, I might be able to do 5 in one minute…MIGHT.