Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 16, 2016

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    oldpine52  about 8 years ago

    The New Horizons must of caught a tail wind.

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 8 years ago

    Seeing as New Horizons made it to Pluto, now what? Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

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    Bilan  about 8 years ago

    Coincidentally, New Horizons took off just seven months before Pluto was demoted.

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    Brian G Premium Member about 8 years ago

    If it doesn’t actually land on Pluto, what is the definition of “Reaching Pluto” that is so precise as to be timed to the second?

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    J Short  about 8 years ago

    72 seconds?How far off can you get? Did the guy in charge use a slide rule?

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    Knightman Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Must caught 1 green light along the way!!!

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    Chad Cheetah  about 8 years ago

    That’s some amazing calculations right there

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    PMark  about 8 years ago

    That’s an error of 0.0000228%. Not bad.

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    tom_wright  about 8 years ago

    Set up the “New Horizons” Real Estate office. You can still get a bungalow overlooking the frozen methane lake at a reasonable price. When Pluto was re-classified as something other than a full-fledged planet Real Estate prices plummeted, but they’ve recovered nicely now.

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    Max Starman Jones  about 8 years ago

    Google Maps had predicted the extra 72 seconds, but that was an alternative route to avoid tolls.

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    Iceman47  about 8 years ago

    Ruth Graves Wakefield could be the original " chocoholic".

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    Iceman47  about 8 years ago

    Other than the fact that a bowhead and Moby Dick were both whales, they have little else in common with Melville’s book. Moby Dick was characterized as a sperm whale.

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    SeaFox10  about 8 years ago

    Ruth wasn’t too smart, was she?!

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    Julie-21  about 8 years ago

    I went to visit Pluto recently and when I got there it was gone.

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    tuslog1964  about 8 years ago

    Pluto is what Pluto is-

    regardless of how we classify it.

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    danketaz Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Must have stopped to ask directions.

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    Mariposamia  about 8 years ago

    Always better early than late!

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    chain gang charlie  about 8 years ago

    So what?Benito Mussolini made the Italian trains run ON Time!90 years ago!Try that now!

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    platyfurmany  about 8 years ago

    To have hit their target so precisely and so close to the time predicted, NASA achieved the same precision as having to shoot a bullet from Earth orbit and hit a sheet of paper orbiting the Moon edge on and split the sheet in two within a thousandth of a second of projected time.

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