Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 18, 2014
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A Jaguar E-Type convertible stolen in New York in 1968 was seized on route to Europe via California on September 2014 and returned to its original owner, who is now 82 years old and living in Florida! U.S. Navy servicemen in the Pacific theater in World War II, drank torpedo juice, made from fruit juice and the 180 proof grain alcohol that fueled torpedoes! Moon dust smells like used gunpowder, according to astronauts who have walked on its surface.
Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
I have one word concerning torpedo juice: yuck.
Sidhekin about 10 years ago
The suits were not left outside the lander, you know.
Every time they re-entered the lander, they brought moon dust inside.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member about 10 years ago
An ex-navy man once told me told me of sailors who drank shoe polish after filtering it through a piece of bread.I’m not sure I believe that.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member about 10 years ago
Does moon dust smell like black powder, or smokeless?
Charlie Fogwhistle about 10 years ago
I had a professor once who had been on a submarine in WWII who regaled the class (early 1970’s) with tales of him and/or his shipmates drinking just about everything, including Aqua Velva aftershave. Not sure whether I believed him, but I sure wouldn’t recommend it.
jack fairbanks about 10 years ago
And here I thought our love of gunpowder was true and genuine.
jack fairbanks about 10 years ago
Not ’til it gets to Europe… Pa-Rump-Pump!
Brown Leghorn about 10 years ago
We put gyro cleaner alcohol in the coke cup dispenser, it was also 180 proof. It was used because it left no residue on the segments. We were allotted 5 gallons per month, more than enough to clean the Sperry compass and repeaters. Remember this, the British Navy got Rum Rads so we had to adapt and compensate at sea
loner34 about 10 years ago
NOTE: 180 proof is 90%
linsonl about 10 years ago
I once worked at a radio station where the staff had convinced management that we needed pure grain alcohol to clean the tape heads. Heee heee heee.
louieglutz about 10 years ago
on tin cans we would open a #10 can of peaches and put it behind the boiler.
Scott S about 10 years ago
Buzz Aldrin commented about that in a Readers Digest article. He said the interior of the Eagle smelled like gunpowder, it was very cramped, & sleep was impossible.
But they still needed to be on top of their game in a few hours when they would lift off to rejoin the CSM orbiting the moon.
paulsub63 about 10 years ago
http://jalopnik.com/mans-stolen-jaguar-e-type-miraculously-found-after-46-y-1636284844
Petemejia77 about 10 years ago
The begining of the film"The Master" showed Joaquin Phoenix as a sailor in the navey after WW2 making that crazy drink. Couldn’t believe guys did that.
cb795 about 10 years ago
as long as the ethanol was not denatured it is drinkable. 180 proof is 90% alcohol—-pretty potent. Even a 1:1 dilution with fruit juice would make a 90 proof drink….
sdjamieson Premium Member about 10 years ago
Um, weren’t the astronauts wearing their helmets?
Brown Leghorn about 10 years ago
True, but when the galley hands conspire to supply the ingredients to run a still back aft it is darn near mutiny of Navy Regs!
rqs1123 about 10 years ago
totally agree