Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 10, 2017

Where’s the science behind the car in the space thing? Where does even one find Bradley’s knife angel?

Angel? Looks more like a gorilla to me.

What’s that statue all about, Alfie?

Since the knife angel appears to be a recent creation, why is the person in the drawing dressed like someone from the 18th century?

Angel has a creepy looking face…lol

Finally! A dependable way to tell lemons and limes apart!

Are we talking wide open in a sports car or highway speeds in a Civic?

Better hope that statue doesn’t topple over on top of you!

To drive at constant speed straight up, ignoring initial acceleration, you have to apply constant force equal to cancel the local gravitational field. A very powerful car has 373,000 joules per second of power. The energy to get a car mass of 1500 kg into space is roughly 1.5 times 10^10 Joules. (divide 1.5 X 10^10 by time T seconds to equal 3.73 X 10^5 power units to yield time required for trip. T = (1.5)/(3.73) X 10^5 = 5 X 10^4 seconds. = 8 X 10^2 minutes. = 13 hours . This actually moves out to orbital distance. So car could go no faster than 70/13 = 6 mph. To go at 70 requires 13 X 373,000 joules per second or 6500 horsepower. The most powerful production car is 1500 hp. so maximum speed about 25 mph. it would take about 3 hours to get to orbital height. About 2 hours to get to outer space. Off by factor of two.

I don’t like it when fruit drowns in my comics. :(

Now that’s an Angel of Death.

Lemons have a thicker peel than limes. The white part on the inside of the lemon peel holds enough air to make the lemon float.