Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 25, 2013
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The British Navy's Astute-class nuclear submarine can hear a ship leaving port from over 3000 miles away! In the 1940s, surrealist artist Salvador Dali worked with Walt Disney on a film that was not released until 2003. When a B25 bomber crashed into the Empire State building in 1945, elevator attendant Betty Lou Oliver survive not only being injured in the crash but also in an elevator fall of 75 stories!
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On the Astute-class thing: that’s entirely unbelievable, and here’s why: the ocean is a very noisy place, with biological and mechanical noises, and there is no way it would be able to pick out a target 3,000 miles away out of all the clutter that exists, even with the advanced software and distributed architecture the submarine has. There simply wouldn’t be enough computing power, for one thing!
Add in the thermocline/convergence zones, the landmasses, the rather-noisy geo-processes Earth has… forget it.
I call bollocks on Ripley’s claim here.