Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 23, 2021

Hill Bare

One time I survived being shot out of a gun at 3,001 feet per second.

May the Lord be with you.

OK, Silver, you aren’t the only one who can tell golf jokes…

Seems there was this man who went out on the links, and on his first shot hit the ball badly sliced. It bounced off the clubhouse roof, hit a tree, and finally caromed onto the green, where it rolled into the hole for an ace.

His golfing companion remarked, “You didn’t tell me you’d been practicing.”

Not only can tardigrades survive high velocities, but they can also survive extreme pressure, temperature, low moisture, low oxygen, radiation and even the vacuum of space. However, they can only do this by entering a compressed, dormant state.

Tardigrades can survive even the vacuum of outer space and other extreme conditions.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-does-the-tiny-waterbear-survive-in-outer-space-30891298/

Regarding the moon, just what we need: a second rusty celestial body (the first being the planet Mars)

I’m just intrigued whether the tardigrades will survive if they is shot outta gun in metres per second.

I’m so conditioned to think than man causes every thing bad to happen to the natural world that I figured that the moon landing had something to do with the moon rusting.

Tardigrades- probably another valuable university study paid for with grants from the US Govt

Some people would die to be Bill Hare. Other people would die to AVOID being Bill Hare.

24 years ain’t a big deal when lots of Irish folk got dressed up to be in the parade for way longer. My grandad did his St. Paddy’s day parade walk for 50 years. Not as a leprechaun. He was too tall for that.

How do you shoot a tardigrade out of a gun and then find it to see it survived??

On an episode of south park, when the NFL was looking for new fans, didn’t they use the Tardigrades as their new fan base.

Water Bears appear in the episode “Moss Piglets” as part of Jimmy and Timmy’s science fair project. They are shown to enjoy Taylor Swift and are later inadvertently altered by Nathan and Mimsy (who were actually trying to kill them), learning to do the “Hokey Pokey” as accurately as their physiology allows.

They are later used by the NFL to fill the seats at Super Bowl games due to declining attendance.

Who says South Park is not educational?

I learned who Taylor Swift is…and she used to date Loki

The Bill Hare entry isn’t quite at the same level of “Believe It or Not!” as the other two.

Bill Hare, seriously? That wouldn’t even make 6th grade show and tell.

Bill Hare: 6’ 3" tall, right?

Here’s the tardigrade article from about a month ago:https://www.sciencealert.com/tardigrades-can-survive-high-velocity-impacts-after-being-fired-from-a-gun

I guess we better cancel oxygen: we don’t want the moon to rust.

There is no natural altitude that is the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space. The atmosphere just gets thinner and thinner as altitude increases. Humans arbitrarily picked a distance.

So the grey moon will eventually resemble Mars?

Greetings Steve ,Eromlig and other joke telling friends! my story is about three wealthy young men from Texas who are visiting The Big Apple and meet three very attractive young women. The gals are immediately attracted to the guys with their ten gallon hats, expensive hand made boots and their Texas drawl! The first young lady asks her guy “What does your family do in Texas?” He says “my daddy in the cattle bidness. He own four thousand acres of the best grazing land and has ten thousand of the finest hereford cattle in Texas!” Ooooh swoons the young gal “What does he call his place?” He responds “It’s the Big J Ranch and Cattle company!” The second gal asks her date “How bout your family, what do they do?” He says “My daddy own six thousand acres of the richest oil fields in Texas which produces a million gallons of crude oil each day!” Aahh “What is his place called?” He says " It’s called the Big T Petroleum Company and Refinery!" The third young lady can hardly wait to learn more about her guys family’s wealth and asks “What does your family own?” He responds “My daddy own seventy five acres in Texas!” “SEVENTY FIVE ACRES?” What does he call that little place?" The boy says “It’s called downtown Dallas!” So long pahdnas!

Wow, who makes those tini guns??

When I was a kid I ate Quaker Puffed Rice that was shot from guns. Or was it?

It’s more likely the moon buggy. Was it built in Detroit?

After grabbing Hare’s leg and refusing to let go, Patrick McLeahy is currently serving 1 – 3 years for assault.

And did you know that giant Tardigrades powered the jump drive on the “woke” Star Trek show “Discovery?”

Whadda ya mean “dressed as”? He is a leprechaun!

If they believe that the oxygen on the moon came all the way from Earth, then where did the oxygen in the water come from?

Can tardigrades survive on moon rust?

About that leprechaun, why “more then 24 years”? Isn’t the exact number known?

So why did he stop going to the bar to celebrate the St. Pat’s day?