Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 11, 2021

Why waste a good theme? Muslims may behead you if you diss them, but the Irish will often buy you a beer. I’ll go with the odds:

A secret agent parachutes into the Irish countryside near a small village to make contact with a spy in that village. All he knew about the spy was his name, O’Brien, and the code phrase “The crows fly at midnight.” After disposing of his parachute, he stealthily enters the town. Seeing an establishment called Mick’s Pub, he decides his first stop should be orientation and refreshment, not necessarily in that order. So he goes in and orders a beer. As he sits down, a constable who happened to be in the pub says, “Hello, stranger. May I help you in any way?”

The agent figures, why not? So he says, “Yes, Constable. I’m looking for a man named O’Brien.”

“Well,” the constable starts, “There are several O’Brien in this town. See those two drunk twins at the bar? Their names are O’Brien. That beat-up man in the corner? He’s an O’Brien, as well. There’s a shopkeeper O’Brien, a farrier O’Brien…in fact, me own name is O’Brien!”

“It is?”

“Sure’n truth, it is.”

What do I have to lose? the agent thinks to himself. So he clears his throat, and says to the constable, “The crows fly at midnight.”

The constable breaks into a knowing grin. “Oh, ‘tis O’Brien the spy you’d be wantin’!”

Why does Mars make a humming noise? Hey, do I have to be the one to answer that? OK…because it doesn’t know the words. (Sigh…)

??

Maybe Mars is just in a good mood?

Also, does anyone else ever get irrationally upset by lightning? It’s like, “Good lord! The clouds are crashing into each other! Somebody do something!”

The Earth also hums.

https://www.wired.com/2009/08/hummingearth/

It’s the technology from the aliens living inside Mars.

Funny, except worker bees are female…

There’s been some YouTube videos of planets making creepy sounds. Though I don’t know what we’re supposed to do with this information.

Kilroy was there first.

Mars is just happy with what it’s doing.

In space, no one can hear you hum.

No one is sure why? Obviously it’s em aliens or martians making that sound. Just what the alien astronaut theorists had always suspected.

They say the moon rings like a bell, too! https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/15mar_moonquakes.html

Almond Joy is silent. Switch to Almond Joy.

Take care, may renowned diabetes specialist Dr. Ayta Asucarord be with you, and gesundheit.

Hardy har har

don’t know. about a hundred times? bees are electric? where do they put the batteries? so many questions with so few answers. 1 believe 1 or not? 1 I suppose it’s possible.

Hum a few bars and maybe Venus will sing along.

The bumblebees where I used to live must have been the dumb kind: I would sit on the porch and watch as they went flower to flower, then another would come along and do the same.

With 100 strikes per second, we should be able to harness lightning and get rid of those unsightly wind turbines.

BTW, Mars doesn’t hum: the electronics in the communication radios are just poorly made.

Stephanie was there. Worker bees are all female.

I have often seen bees hovering over a flower, but going on to another blossom. I always assumed it was due to fantastic eyesight, not electric fields.

It is possible that sounds these planets and satellites emit is due to the fact that they have their own magnetic fields, are rotating and spinning through their orbits around the sun. Much the same as the thrumming one hears as they spin a rock in a sling shot; or even just an ordinary rope spinning over your head as fast as you can!

Mars hums because (1). It has forgotten the words to the song, (2). Martians are giant bees and their hive is humming with activity, or (3). I have no clue.

Is it just me or did the art style change recently?

damn I thought it was Kilroy

Mars hums cos of all the generators keeping the Martians alive

Mars hums.

Earth hums.

Apparently there are several Spooky Space ‘Sounds’

https://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/features/halloween_sounds.html

Even interstellar space hums.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/faraway-nasa-probe-detects-eerie-hum-interstellar-space-2021-05-11/

What happened to John Graziano?

Mars hums like a tuning fork do. Martians on land cycles two by two.

New font is more readable, but the size… :(

Maybe Mars is really sick and has the Hum Bug

The generator for the magnetic field was left on idle when we left…

Mars likes to annoy its neighbors…

And I thought I had tinnitus, when it was Mars humming all along.