Man survives 1 000m fall

A man from Bloemfontein survived a 1?000m fall by landing in a ploughed field after his parachute failed to open properly while he was executing his first jump. Shocked family and friends stood watching at Tempe airport in Bloemfontein as Benno Jacobs, 35, struggled to disentangle the ropes of his parachute while hurtling through the air at a dizzying speed. “As it was my first jump, I thought it was only a bad jump, and not a fall,” said the father of two. Jacobs didn’t even break a bone or tear a ligament. He suffered a few bruises, a bruised lung, a swollen lip and an aching body. – news24

Madonna’s Nucelar Powers

“MADONNA and her husband Guy Ritchie have been lobbying the government and nuclear industry over a scheme to clean up radioactive waste with a supposedly magic Kabbalah fluid.

The couple, both followers of the Jewish spiritual movement, approached Downing Street, Whitehall and British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) promoting a ?mystical? liquid tested in a Ukrainian lake.

The response?

?It was like a crank call . . . the scientific mechanisms and principles were just bollocks, basically,? one official said.

Which other country in the world would provide an official response which was so concise, accurate and to the point?” – worstall

Team finds ‘proof’ of dark matter

US astronomers say they have found the first direct evidence for the mysterious stuff called dark matter. Dark matter – which does not emit or reflect enough light to be “seen” – is thought to make up 25% of the Universe. By contrast, the ordinary matter we can see is believed to make up no more than about 5% of our Universe. …

WHAT THE UNIVERSE IS MADE OF

70% – dark energy

25% – dark matter

5% – ordinary matter

What the researchers have done is, in effect, to identify the gravitational “signature” of dark matter. This signature was created by dark matter and ordinary matter being wrenched apart by the immense collision of two large galaxy clusters.

Study leader Doug Clowe, from the University of Arizona, said: “This provides the first direct proof that dark matter must exist and that it must make up the majority of the matter in the Universe.”? – bbc

UFO: Green, lighted ball with a tail that flew low

I subscribe to a service that sends me all the day’s UFO reports from around the world. The ones that really stand out or that have good pictures, I post on this blog. Here is a report of a UFO that caught my attention because I saw TWO just like this, one about a minute after the other. This was here in California a few years ago. The green tails were “swirving” on the two I saw when I was out in the woods.

“Calls streamed in to local police stations during the night after an unidentified flying object darted over the night skies in northern Norway. A top astronomer, though, thinks it was another meteorite. … “It was colored white, green and gold, and lights seemed to blow off it like it was a sparkler,” said one observer, Andre Gr?nmo. “It looked like it was a comet, and it was around four- to five times larger than a plane, and it flew much faster.”

Slettli said others described a “green, lighted ball with a tail” that flew low. He said neither the Defense Department’s radar station or its rocket facility at And?ya, nor the tower at Evenes airport, which serves Harstad and Narvik, had picked up the object.” – aftenposten