Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 11, 2020

If Oumuamua is not orbiting something, there’s probably no way they could determine its’ mass. So how could they determine what it’s made of?

Before McD’s, what was the largest toy distributor?

Oumuamua looks disturbingly like the planet eating thing from the original Star Trek. You kno, the one where Commodore lost his starship crew and then his mind.

I didn’t know McDonalds still puts toys in their happy meals. I thought they stopped a few years ago during all that marketing to kids controversy.

A fat rat? Guess Master Splinter ate too much pizza! LOL!

Free it? Why? So that the sewer rat can go spread some plague?

Or a space turd.P.S. Sorry about grossing you out.

maybe the rat ate at mickey d’s too much?

Then they killed the rat… but in a humane way…

That team of firefighters loves their bouillabaisse.

Speaking of toys: A Barbie Dreamhouse is sold every two minutes and was first introduced in 1962. Barbie is the most diverse fashion doll on the market. More than 100 dolls are sold every minute, with a total of 58 million sold annually. Barbie is sold in 150 countries worldwide.

Does `Oumuamua sound Polynesian to you?

On this day in history on August 11 1988 Al Qaeda formed at a meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan

Put it together, scientists: Oumuamua came out of a Happy Meal bag.

Take care and gesundheit.

Cities spend thousands of dollars to eradicate rats but then they waste resources to rescue one. A pellet gun and a boot would have done nicely.

Did they use a plunger to dislodge that rat?

everytime i see picture of tha thing it reminds me of the Star Trek movie about the whales.

Sorry McDonald’s, I don’t believe it. Those aren’t toys. They’re collectibles. Nick-nacks. Mistly they’re just trash.

Definition of a toy, by Durak: Something that a child would either want for Christmas or makes himself. Not sme scrap of mass-produced trash.

Spectrum of reflected light?

For those curious, they were able to determine Oumuamua was an interstellar object by its orbital eccentricity, which is how much an objects orbit around another body deviates from a perfect circle (a perfect circle has an orbital eccentricity of zero). Oumuamua’s orbital eccentricity was the highest ever seen, and neither it nor its speed could be accounted for if it had come from inside the solar system, which led scientists to conclude that it must be an interstellar object passing through the system.

I thought that the world was trying to exterminate rats, not save them! :o0

Let the rat alone. He’ll either Die or Diet! Either way, he’ll be free!

I just find myself wondering what prodigious creature took such a prodigious…oh, never mind.

And LEGO is the world’s largest tire manufacturer.

… and possibly the world’s leading obesity and heart attack distributor !!

Giant Hydrogen Iceberg huh?

Wow, what better way to take your fuel with you on an interstellar journey, right?

Part of Oumuamua’s journey was likely isolated enough from stars to allow the freezing of hydrogen.

GOOGLE knowledge is transient, brain knowledge can be applied in many scenarios!

Oumuamua looks like a giant turd.