Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 03, 2024

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967: “outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”

What makes a robotic shark smart? Can it do mathematics equations?

“You’re gonna need a bigger ocean.”

“Little Lady.”

“Once I was the 52nd state,”

Dunno, kinda miss that guy…..

How smart is it to make a smart shark? And when will it visit Sherman’s Lagoon?

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A Kung Fu student asks his teacher, “Master, why does my ability not improve? I’m always defeated.”

And the master, pensive and forever patient, answers…

“My dear pupil, have you seen the gulls flying by the setting sun and their wings seeming like flames?”

“Yes, my master, I have.”

“And a waterfall, spilling mightily over the stones without taking anything out of its proper place?”

“Yes, my master, I have witnessed it.”

“And the moon, when it touches the calm water to reflect all its enormous beauty?”

“Yes, my master, I have also seen this marvelous phenomenon.”

“That is the problem. You keep watching all this sh!t instead of training.”

I call BS on the 2012 moon, being a the 51st state (although it IS stupid enough to have possibly been proposed during the Obama years) By international Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 ( two years before the first moon landing) no country may claim the moon or any other celestial body as solely that country’s property.

So the moon would get 2 senators and a representative? (Minimum for a state) . Don’t remember that. Had to be a joke.

I could name several politicians and other nonentities… I’d happily send to the moon… ONE WAY…

The bells, the bells! The tintinnabulation of THE BELLS! ~ Morty Martian, hiding from the intruders.. plus influencing poets of the past, I can do that

The moon should be named “Alice.”

So how does one play a harmonica in a space suit?

Stick your hand out the window during lift off?

Idea for Robotic Shark stolen from SYFY Channel low budget movie

Making the moon a US state is not possible. A UN resolution made the moon available to ALL countries, no one country can claim ownership.“While United States astronauts were the first to visit the Moon, this does not mean that the United States owns it. In fact, under the 1967 Outer Space Treaty no country has a unique ownership in the Moon and all nations are accorded equal rights and access.”

Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico should be the 51st and 52nd states.

We had a whale shark follow us for days while doing “surveillance” work in the Tonkin gulf back in "65….Was he feeding off the plankton from our prop wash or a Proto-type?

I wonder if the Harmonica sounds the same in the spacecraft with its lowered pressure and different gas mixture.