Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 14, 2023

So before π, what did people before Jones’ lifetime had been using? Just 3.14-etc.?

I would have thought the usage of Pi would be much older than 300 years.

Eat, drink and be merry this week—- which includes Pi Day, the Ides of March, and St. Patrick’s Day.

Happy Pi Day, everyone. I trust you all know how to celebrate it properly.

Kip Thorne had a big rivalry with Stephen Hawking about black hole theories, which happened to involve a salacious magazine as an informal prize. Thorne eventually won a Nobel Prize, although the more famous Hawking didn’t.

After about another 16 to 18 revolutions of the Sun around the Milky Way, the Earth may be uninhabitable because the Sun will grow into a red giant. That’s if current climate change trends have not killed us off already.

Having a special day for Pi is so irrational.

This used to be the best comic to read every day but some people hate to see others enjoying themselves so had to get the people who made it worth reading. Now it’s back to the same old same old. I still come here twice a week just in case.

Pi are not square Pi are round.

I just don’t know why a person would have to orbit around a Milky Way or Snickers or Abba Zabba or any other kind of candy bar. Just go ahead and partake of … oh, you mean the galaxy in which our planet and solar system reside. Never mind. ~ Emily Litella, well, truth be told science and various confections do overlap at some point in time

Take care, may Master Bakery Chef Geoff “Yeah My Name Rhymes With Chef And Yes I Do Measure The Circumference Of My Pies Using The Pi Formula So Let’s Just Dispense With The Silly Puns Especially About My Buns” McSiftord be with you, and gesundheit.

actually 317 years ago so pi jokes not working

I always understood that our solar system has not made it one cycle around the Milky Way.

Fred MacMurray was happily married to the actress June Haver for many decades.

They were married after he LITERALLY rescued her from a convent.(She had become disillusioned with showbusiness)

One thing about Interstellar I didn’t like was the scene with the time dilation planet. The idea is that the planet was so close to the black hole that gravitational time dilation made only 1 hour pass on that world for every 7 years the rest of the universe experienced, but at THAT point extreme radiation or gravitational sheer would have torn the planet to incandescent dust, yes the planet had tidal waves the size of mountains but that was nothing compared to what should have been happening.

May I have a slice of apple? Please?

A solar system year (time to orbit the core) is 230 million of our years? So – what season would it be?

So … in 115 million years we can see what is hiding behind the other side of the galaxy? Awesome! I can’t wait, literally.

That would cut down on the candles on birthday cakes.

Isn’t the solar system orbiting around a black hole at the center of the galaxy? There has to be a central point for bodies to revolve around

Wait, I missed the celebration at the 314.5926… year anniversary? Why didn’t anyone wake me?

We humans prefer measurements that are represented by numbers that are close to smaller integers. We’d rather deal with “3.8 miles” than "20064 feet. Keeping that in mind, some have proposed a unit for cosmic time scales: The Galactic Year

The Big Bang was about 61 GY ago. Our galaxy is 54 GY old. The Sun is 20 GY old. The extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs occurred about 0.29 GY ago.

So it’s safe to say that it took us 230 million years to get where we are now…

The Milky Way looks like a spiral. How does a solar system orbit around a spiral?

Did somebody at Go Comics miss out on Daylight Savings Time? Fully three-fourths of the 40 or so comics I read came up with the March 13th comic.