Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 24, 2015
Transcript:
According to the University of Leicester, printing the entire Internet would require 136 billion pages of paper. The Mars Rover Opportunity has recently completed the first extraterrestrial marathon- traveling 26.219 miles on the surface of Mars in 11 years and 2 months. Sweet Kiss of death! In 1923, Sweet Kiss, written by Frank Hayes, came in first- but Hayes' heart beat its last before they crossed Belmont Park's finish line, making him the only jockey to win posthumously.
johnt204 over 9 years ago
Hayes died with his boots on.And he wasn’t even a cowboy.
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
Okay, they say how much paper to print the entire Internet, but how much ink would that require?
Bilan over 9 years ago
According to Wikipedia, Frank probably suffered a heart attack from losing too much weight in a short time, in order to qualify.
Space_cat over 9 years ago
136 billion pages and 95% is NSFW..
billsarar over 9 years ago
135 out of 136 billion pages would cover just the internet porn
hankgillette over 9 years ago
If the jockey was dead, shouldn’t the horse have been disqualified for not having a jockey?
Of corpse not!
Charlie Fogwhistle over 9 years ago
And if everybody on Earth wanted their own copy, that would be approximately 1 Sextillion pages. At 16 pages to the pound, that would be about 62.5 Pentillion pounds, which fortunately, is only a fraction of what the entire Earth weighs, which is 13.17 Septillion pounds, more or less. When do we start?
francisrossi over 9 years ago
How many pages would YouTube need?
And yeah, cutting weight the wrong way can do serious damage.
spaced man spliff over 9 years ago
About 24,000 miles high, for an 8.5 × 11 inch stack
Lamberger over 9 years ago
Does that include the dark net?
Artie Adams over 9 years ago
Of course, that calculation doesn’t really count, because they’d be using A4 paper, instead of 8.5×11 like the good Lord intended.