Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 22, 2023

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    pearlsbs  over 1 year ago

    Maybe there were over 2 million trees planted, but I don’t think they did it by themselves. That would be over 270 trees per day on average. They probably had help from others.

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    Cool Hand Luke Premium Member over 1 year ago

    That antelope’s life span must be around three days? OK, the dessert rat is in the same boat. It gets the water it needs from the food it eats and I presume it is the same for that species of antelope. I know, biology majors are a pain,

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    Zykoic  over 1 year ago

    274 trees per day. Used a machine. Diesel powered sapling plugger.

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    Bilan  over 1 year ago

    A factoid similar to the Greenbank telescope: The island of Hawaii allows only sodium street lamps on the island so that they don’t interfere with the telescopes on Mauna Kea.

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    txspencer  over 1 year ago

    Greenbank, WV can ban cell phones and wifi because only 74 people live there!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 1 year ago

    That’s nothing. I planted over 2.7 million blades of grass in just one season. ~ Davey “Divot” McGolfcourse, seedy but dedicated

    May the shored be with you as they are with me. And gesundheit.

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Salgados could give a lesson to Justin Trudeau who promised to plant two BILLION trees. He’s only got 1,975,000,000 to go.

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    Anon4242  over 1 year ago

    Greenbank WV doesn’t allow microwave ovens either.

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    khmo  over 1 year ago

    Pearl et al, when we acquired this baren old farm, we planted over 1000 conifer seedlings a day for several weeks. We were bushed but it is possible.

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    chroniclecmx  over 1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure everyone can survive their entire life without drinking water. Granted, their lives might not be very long…

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    I guess that antelope gets all the moisture it needs from its food.

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    DawnQuinn1  over 1 year ago

    West Virginia? That tells you all you need to know.

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

    W.C. Fields also survived his entire life without drinking water

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    oish  over 1 year ago

    That’s because Generic Antelopes prefer their scotch without water

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    MichiganMitten  over 1 year ago

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    MichiganMitten  over 1 year ago

    Look up the United States National Radio Quiet Zone on Wikipedia. System won’t let me post link.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 1 year ago

    But what if aliens prefer to make first contact with a cell phone and not a satellite dish?

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    jkn1027  over 1 year ago

    Any living being can go its entire life without taking a drink of water. :)

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    bwswolf  over 1 year ago

    Had to lookup how the Gerenuk Antelope could live without water …… found …… They do not eat grass and do not require water. They can get enough moisture from the plant life they eat and can survive in dry thornbush country and even in the desert. ………….. :)

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    Jogger2  over 1 year ago

    When it started, the SETI@home project sent work units that were created using data from the Arecibo radio telescope. At some point, they added work units that were created from the Green Bank observitory.

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    Arthur Anderson Premium Member over 1 year ago

    This cartoon is somewhat misleading. The telescope in Greenbank is a RADIO telescope: Ergo, the need for a radio quiet zone. This is not made clear in the cartoon.

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