Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 16, 2023

how can you harvest water from fog? with tarps?

The Fog was a scary horror movie 40 some years ago. That fog was thick enough to make lots of water, but you couldn’t linger very long inside it.

There were long delays in unloading shipping containers during the height of the pandemic. Wouldn’t want to get stuck in one back then.

I love when they say “may have”, they have their studies and facts. Sounds convincing

Fog season is coming up in Spring, I think.

I wonder if we can genetically engineer (fill in the blank) to make them (fill in the blank) so that we can have (fewer/more) of those (fill in the blank) we (love/hate) so much. Now that would be worth spending our tax dollars on.

Take care, may incessantly day dreaming student Pat “Oh Hello Where Am I” Doodleord be with you, and gesundheit.

They have a condensing machine now that extract moisture from low humidity air.

And that teenager might have gotten stuck in the Suez Canal, like a big container ship did not long ago.

That stowaway will make a fortune selling the movie rights.

Fred Astaire’s famous “DANCING ON THE CEILING” NUMBER IN “ROYAL WEDDING”(1951) was done to t he tune of teh song “You’re All The World To Me”.

But it’s the SAME melody as “I Wanna Be A Minstrel Man” inEdie Cantor’s KID MILLIONS by a different composer,Irving Berlin.

So – we need to send lots of frogs to California?

Those mosquitoes released contained the CRISPR gene, which is fascinating

https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/CRISPR

…and the Hide-‘n’-Seek Olympics continue to this day.

Coverage excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sqTmhB0BNQ

Even better? A movie about a real-life group of adults who play a kids’ game to stay young:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_(2018_film)

If I recall correctly (I’m too lazy to look it up) , the mosquitoes were engineered to not be able to reproduce. That made the total number of them much lower, and caused the very beneficial drop in disease spread.

6 days without food and water? To me, this is an “OR NOT”.