Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 04, 2013
September 03, 2013
September 05, 2013
Transcript:
The wheel spider of Africa's Namib Desert curls its legs into a ball and rolls down sand dunes in order to escape predators! NASA has drawn up plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid from deep space in a giant bag and toe it into lunar orbit so that astronauts can land on it! In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson offended the British ambassador by greeting him in pajamas and slippers!
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Near Earth asteroids are a constant hazard to the planet..There is no need to get an asteroid moving because they are always in motion, you just need to guide it.If they can find a way to guide an asteroid into orbit around the moon, the mining prospects would be awesome..Also an asteroid would make a dandy space craft..\\//_