| posted on 2004-10-11 |
| Monkeyman’ creates scare in Khanpur Meghdoot Sharon Ahmedabad, February 20: THERE seems to be a lot of monkey business going on in Khanpur Darwaja Chhapra. And it’s left residents of the slum located along the Sabarmati in Khanpur worried. Since the last 15 days, residents claim to have seen a person, dressed in black and wearing a mask. The ‘monkeyman’ whom they describe as between 25 and 20 years, dark-skinned and having curly hair reportedly can be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees, they say. However, the scared residents have still not lodged a police complaint. Sure that this is a supernatural occurrence, the residents have taken to maintaining night-long vigil. Residents of the slum reject the possibility that the person could be a thief a drug addict or even a human. He has not stolen anything, they say, adding that ‘‘when chased, the figure disappears.’’ Most of these sightings have been reported from midnight to dawn. What has heightened their fear is the claim that two youths of the area — Mehboob and Farooq — got close to the ‘monkeyman’ which reportedly disappeared. Residents say the youths have been ‘‘behaving abnormally’’ since then, and had to be taken to a Maulvi who sprinkled holy water on them. ‘‘Four days ago, we chased the man along the river bed till Cama Hotel. Then he just disappeared,’’ says Bashir Malbari, a resident of Khanpur Darwaza Chhapra. Malbari, who has a paan shop outside the Darwaza, says that he has not seen the man but has heard him running on rooftops. Convinced that this is no thief, Malbari says, ‘‘I feel someone is practicing hypnotism in our slum.’’ This also was not a case of someone playing pranks, he says, adding that no thief would try his luck at the slum. ‘‘Mehboob, who saw the man from as close as five feet and even attacked him, fainted. We had to take him to the Maulvi,’’ claims Mohammed Salim, another resident of the slum. He adds that there have been more than half-a-dozen instances in the past fortnight when residents chased the person, who disappeared. Abdul Hamid, another youngster of the slum, who claims to have seen the person, described him as a lean man who carries a sharp weapon. ‘‘I saw him from the back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised an alarm, he jumped to another roof and then on to a tree,’’ he says. Pyaare Khan, an elder at the slum, says 40 years ago there was a ‘haivan’ (demon) that appeared every time there was a funeral in Shahpur area. He says two decades ago, there was a magician who moved around Nehru Bridge with a skull in his hand. ‘‘I think this is a reincarnation of one of those two evil spirits,’’ he says, adding that policemen from Shahpur police station have tried to help them search the ‘monkeyman.’ An old woman reportedly identified the person as a drug addict, claiming she had seen him loitering around the area a few days ago. But residents say they had caught all drug addicts in the area, but not one resembled the person they were looking for. Interestingly, the Khanpur police chowky shares a wall with the slum and cops too have joined the residents in their search on at least six occasions. Constable Laxman Chavda says, ‘‘Yes, there have been cases, but nobody was found. I do not think there is anything supernatural.’’ Shahpur police station personnel said there have been cases when policeman have joined the search, but added that the sound on roofs could have been made by cats. |
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| posted on 2004-10-11 |
| Monkeyman’ creates scare in Khanpur Meghdoot Sharon Ahmedabad, February 20: THERE seems to be a lot of monkey business going on in Khanpur Darwaja Chhapra. And it’s left residents of the slum located along the Sabarmati in Khanpur worried. Since the last 15 days, residents claim to have seen a person, dressed in black and wearing a mask. The ‘monkeyman’ whom they describe as between 25 and 20 years, dark-skinned and having curly hair reportedly can be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees, they say. However, the scared residents have still not lodged a police complaint. Sure that this is a supernatural occurrence, the residents have taken to maintaining night-long vigil. Residents of the slum reject the possibility that the person could be a thief a drug addict or even a human. He has not stolen anything, they say, adding that ‘‘when chased, the figure disappears.’’ Most of these sightings have been reported from midnight to dawn. What has heightened their fear is the claim that two youths of the area — Mehboob and Farooq — got close to the ‘monkeyman’ which reportedly disappeared. Residents say the youths have been ‘‘behaving abnormally’’ since then, and had to be taken to a Maulvi who sprinkled holy water on them. ‘‘Four days ago, we chased the man along the river bed till Cama Hotel. Then he just disappeared,’’ says Bashir Malbari, a resident of Khanpur Darwaza Chhapra. Malbari, who has a paan shop outside the Darwaza, says that he has not seen the man but has heard him running on rooftops. Convinced that this is no thief, Malbari says, ‘‘I feel someone is practicing hypnotism in our slum.’’ This also was not a case of someone playing pranks, he says, adding that no thief would try his luck at the slum. ‘‘Mehboob, who saw the man from as close as five feet and even attacked him, fainted. We had to take him to the Maulvi,’’ claims Mohammed Salim, another resident of the slum. He adds that there have been more than half-a-dozen instances in the past fortnight when residents chased the person, who disappeared. Abdul Hamid, another youngster of the slum, who claims to have seen the person, described him as a lean man who carries a sharp weapon. ‘‘I saw him from the back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised an alarm, he jumped to another roof and then on to a tree,’’ he says. Pyaare Khan, an elder at the slum, says 40 years ago there was a ‘haivan’ (demon) that appeared every time there was a funeral in Shahpur area. He says two decades ago, there was a magician who moved around Nehru Bridge with a skull in his hand. ‘‘I think this is a reincarnation of one of those two evil spirits,’’ he says, adding that policemen from Shahpur police station have tried to help them search the ‘monkeyman.’ An old woman reportedly identified the person as a drug addict, claiming she had seen him loitering around the area a few days ago. But residents say they had caught all drug addicts in the area, but not one resembled the person they were looking for. Interestingly, the Khanpur police chowky shares a wall with the slum and cops too have joined the residents in their search on at least six occasions. Constable Laxman Chavda says, ‘‘Yes, there have been cases, but nobody was found. I do not think there is anything supernatural.’’ Shahpur police station personnel said there have been cases when policeman have joined the search, but added that the sound on roofs could have been made by cats. |
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| posted on 2004-10-11 |
| Monkeyman’ creates scare in Khanpur Meghdoot Sharon Ahmedabad, February 20: THERE seems to be a lot of monkey business going on in Khanpur Darwaja Chhapra. And it’s left residents of the slum located along the Sabarmati in Khanpur worried. Since the last 15 days, residents claim to have seen a person, dressed in black and wearing a mask. The ‘monkeyman’ whom they describe as between 25 and 20 years, dark-skinned and having curly hair reportedly can be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees, they say. However, the scared residents have still not lodged a police complaint. Sure that this is a supernatural occurrence, the residents have taken to maintaining night-long vigil. Residents of the slum reject the possibility that the person could be a thief a drug addict or even a human. He has not stolen anything, they say, adding that ‘‘when chased, the figure disappears.’’ Most of these sightings have been reported from midnight to dawn. What has heightened their fear is the claim that two youths of the area — Mehboob and Farooq — got close to the ‘monkeyman’ which reportedly disappeared. Residents say the youths have been ‘‘behaving abnormally’’ since then, and had to be taken to a Maulvi who sprinkled holy water on them. ‘‘Four days ago, we chased the man along the river bed till Cama Hotel. Then he just disappeared,’’ says Bashir Malbari, a resident of Khanpur Darwaza Chhapra. Malbari, who has a paan shop outside the Darwaza, says that he has not seen the man but has heard him running on rooftops. Convinced that this is no thief, Malbari says, ‘‘I feel someone is practicing hypnotism in our slum.’’ This also was not a case of someone playing pranks, he says, adding that no thief would try his luck at the slum. ‘‘Mehboob, who saw the man from as close as five feet and even attacked him, fainted. We had to take him to the Maulvi,’’ claims Mohammed Salim, another resident of the slum. He adds that there have been more than half-a-dozen instances in the past fortnight when residents chased the person, who disappeared. Abdul Hamid, another youngster of the slum, who claims to have seen the person, described him as a lean man who carries a sharp weapon. ‘‘I saw him from the back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised an alarm, he jumped to another roof and then on to a tree,’’ he says. Pyaare Khan, an elder at the slum, says 40 years ago there was a ‘haivan’ (demon) that appeared every time there was a funeral in Shahpur area. He says two decades ago, there was a magician who moved around Nehru Bridge with a skull in his hand. ‘‘I think this is a reincarnation of one of those two evil spirits,’’ he says, adding that policemen from Shahpur police station have tried to help them search the ‘monkeyman.’ An old woman reportedly identified the person as a drug addict, claiming she had seen him loitering around the area a few days ago. But residents say they had caught all drug addicts in the area, but not one resembled the person they were looking for. Interestingly, the Khanpur police chowky shares a wall with the slum and cops too have joined the residents in their search on at least six occasions. Constable Laxman Chavda says, ‘‘Yes, there have been cases, but nobody was found. I do not think there is anything supernatural.’’ Shahpur police station personnel said there have been cases when policeman have joined the search, but added that the sound on roofs could have been made by cats. |
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| posted on 2004-10-11 |
| Monkeyman’ creates scare in Khanpur Meghdoot Sharon Ahmedabad, February 20: THERE seems to be a lot of monkey business going on in Khanpur Darwaja Chhapra. And it’s left residents of the slum located along the Sabarmati in Khanpur worried. Since the last 15 days, residents claim to have seen a person, dressed in black and wearing a mask. The ‘monkeyman’ whom they describe as between 25 and 20 years, dark-skinned and having curly hair reportedly can be seen hopping from roof to roof and also on to trees, they say. However, the scared residents have still not lodged a police complaint. Sure that this is a supernatural occurrence, the residents have taken to maintaining night-long vigil. Residents of the slum reject the possibility that the person could be a thief a drug addict or even a human. He has not stolen anything, they say, adding that ‘‘when chased, the figure disappears.’’ Most of these sightings have been reported from midnight to dawn. What has heightened their fear is the claim that two youths of the area — Mehboob and Farooq — got close to the ‘monkeyman’ which reportedly disappeared. Residents say the youths have been ‘‘behaving abnormally’’ since then, and had to be taken to a Maulvi who sprinkled holy water on them. ‘‘Four days ago, we chased the man along the river bed till Cama Hotel. Then he just disappeared,’’ says Bashir Malbari, a resident of Khanpur Darwaza Chhapra. Malbari, who has a paan shop outside the Darwaza, says that he has not seen the man but has heard him running on rooftops. Convinced that this is no thief, Malbari says, ‘‘I feel someone is practicing hypnotism in our slum.’’ This also was not a case of someone playing pranks, he says, adding that no thief would try his luck at the slum. ‘‘Mehboob, who saw the man from as close as five feet and even attacked him, fainted. We had to take him to the Maulvi,’’ claims Mohammed Salim, another resident of the slum. He adds that there have been more than half-a-dozen instances in the past fortnight when residents chased the person, who disappeared. Abdul Hamid, another youngster of the slum, who claims to have seen the person, described him as a lean man who carries a sharp weapon. ‘‘I saw him from the back. He had a sword in his hand and when I raised an alarm, he jumped to another roof and then on to a tree,’’ he says. Pyaare Khan, an elder at the slum, says 40 years ago there was a ‘haivan’ (demon) that appeared every time there was a funeral in Shahpur area. He says two decades ago, there was a magician who moved around Nehru Bridge with a skull in his hand. ‘‘I think this is a reincarnation of one of those two evil spirits,’’ he says, adding that policemen from Shahpur police station have tried to help them search the ‘monkeyman.’ An old woman reportedly identified the person as a drug addict, claiming she had seen him loitering around the area a few days ago. But residents say they had caught all drug addicts in the area, but not one resembled the person they were looking for. Interestingly, the Khanpur police chowky shares a wall with the slum and cops too have joined the residents in their search on at least six occasions. Constable Laxman Chavda says, ‘‘Yes, there have been cases, but nobody was found. I do not think there is anything supernatural.’’ Shahpur police station personnel said there have been cases when policeman have joined the search, but added that the sound on roofs could have been made by cats. |
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| Drunken elephants die in accident posted on 2004-03-04 |
| By Subir Bhaumik BBC correspondent in Calcutta Friday, 23 January, 2004, 16:29 GMT Four wild elephants drunk on rice beer have been electrocuted in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya, wildlife officials report. The elephants are known to have a taste for rice beer brewed by tribal communities across north-east India. But this is the first time some of them have died after consuming the drink. A herd of about 20 to 25 elephants went on the rampage in a remote area in the West Garo Hills district earlier this week after getting high on the beer. As panicky villagers fled for cover, leaving behind their freshly brewed beverage, the elephants drank to their heart's content. The inebriated elephants then struck an electric pole and brought it down. But their trunks took the brunt of the shock from the high-tension wire. Four of the elephants were killed instantly. Assam's elephant expert Kushal Konwar Sharma, a lecturer, said these elephants frequently consume rice beer and cause devastation when they become intoxicated. Wildlife officials say in the last two years elephants have killed at least 180 people in Assam and Meghalaya. And more than 200 elephants have been killed by angry villagers during the last six years in the two states, in what is developing into a fierce conflict between man and beast. |
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| 11-YEAR-OLD BALLET DANCER TERRORISES DOCTORS posted on 2004-01-25 |
| 16:32 2001-05-08 A student of Russian Ballet Academy, 11 was detained in St Petersburg. The girl phoned to the city ambulance and reported that the office of the ambulance was mined. The bomb was not found. The police determined the ?telephone terrorist¦ soon. The girl said that it was a joke. The action was not brought against her because of her age. |
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| "MONKEY-MAN," "DOG BOY," AND OTHER posted on 2004-01-25 |
| Pravda, Russia June 27 2001 First there were reports of a steel-clawed "monkey-man'" in India, then a 10-year-old ``dog boy'' in Chile, and now residents of Canada's wilderness are reporting that "Bigfoot," a hairy ape-man, might be on the prowl in northern Ontario, the National Post reported. Residents of a native Indian reserve 1,000 miles north of Toronto have discovered 14-inch-long footprints; the newspaper is quoted by Reuters as saying. "It's definitely not a bear," Abraham Hunter, chief of the 260-member band, told the Post in Monday's editions. This is not the first Bigfoot report at the reserve. Two elders claim to have spotted the creature 20 years ago, Mr. Hunter said, and stories about it have been told for hundreds of years. "These things happen all the time, but we're surprised because we underestimate the power of imagination and the power of belief,'' Laurence Kirmayer, director of McGill University's division of social and transcultural psychiatry, told the paper. Such sightings are typically cultural-specific, he said. On June 14, a government officer with 31 years of experience also came across an odd-looking track 95 miles east of the reserve, the newspaper said. "I couldn't explain what it was. I naturally thought it might be Bigfoot because of the shape of it,'' he told the Post. Tales of a huge apelike creature are not unusual in Canada. In the western Rocky Mountain regions of British Columbia reports of a mysterious ape-man called Sasquatch - similar to the Yeti of the Himalayas - have existed for generations. |
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| 'Critter' Kleptomaniac Convicted posted on 2004-01-25 |
| Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:29:53 -0400 PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - A man who testified he was a kleptomaniac when it came to ``critters'' was convicted of stealing a baby monkey from a zoo. Angel Wayne Pratt, 22, was found guilty Wednesday and sentenced to six months in jail. Pratt, who said he had 13 snakes, 20 dogs, a bird, tarantulas and other creatures, had testified he paid $500 to buy the monkey on a roadside. He said he was a kleptomaniac ``as far as critters are concerned,'' but later said he meant he was an animal collector. The Patas monkey, stolen when it was 14 days old, was returned in poor health and had mental problems, said Highway 77 Zoo co-owner Karin Koll. Police found the monkey in July after an officer who had been called to Pratt's home over an unrelated dispute spotted an empty cage with a blanket, pacifier and grapes. Pratt said the grapes were for his Chihuahua. ``You should have seen him trying to feed grapes to that Chihuahua,'' Officer Tony Meekins said. |
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| MONKEY-MAN ATTACKS RUSSIAN AIRLINER posted on 2004-01-25 |
| 14:12 2001-06-11 PRAVDA.Ru has already reported of an outrageous behaviour presumably displayed in the Indian capital city-s outskirts by some huge and impudent apes. One starts to involuntarily believe in such things in the light of the recent incident aboard a Aeroflot airliner flying from Delhi to Moscow. One of the passengers, resident of Delhi, behaved very strangely. So strangely that in Moscow he arrived heavily guarded by security personnel with his arms and legs tied (before he was tied he managed to bite a stewardess). The Indian started to behave inadequately immediately after the plane took off, the passengers say. мЕ shouted something crazy and made indiscriminate assaults on other people. First, stewardesses tried to subdue him, but he offered resistance, having bitten one of them. Other passengers interfered, and, finally, the trouble maker was tied with adhesive and placed in the plane-s rear compartment. On the arrival in the Sheremetyevo airport, the man was detailed by the local police. When his documents were checked, his entry visa proved invalid. So, the strange passenger was deported back to his home town. |
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| MONKEY-MAN:¦ MYTH DEFLATED, RUMOURS GROW posted on 2004-01-25 |
| 12:59 2001-06-20 The story of a mysterious ?monkey-man¦ allegedly terrorizing the residents of the Indian capital-s suburbs has attracted forensic psychiatrists. They have recently expressed their expert opinion. The psychiatrists, having talked to the alleged ?victims¦ of the ?monkey-man,¦ have come to an unequivocal conclusion that the monkey-man is a fruit of Delhi suburban residents- imagination. In reality, there is no such a monster in ape-s clothing or a gorilla-like extraterrestrial, or some earthly humanlike species unknown to science. In the meantime, rumours of the monkey-man keep on growing like a snowball. The ?epidemic¦ of attacks on sleeping people has spread onto other Indian districts. Police are besieged by phone calls from people claiming that they had seen a 'monkey-man' in their locality. Every morning news pours in that such a creature had injured several people with his iron claws. The rumours have kept people awake the whole night, keeping watch and firing shots in the air. |
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| MODERN-DAY ROMULUS: BOY REARED BY DOGS posted on 2004-01-25 |
An 11-year-old boy has been discovered in a cave in southern Chile, living with a pack of wild dogs, which reared him as one of their own. His ?mother¦ was a bitch who fed him with her milk. The boy lived in a cave with a pack of 15 wild dogs. It seems that one of the bitches, a leading member of the pack, played the role of the boy-s mother, in a modern-day version of Romulus and Remus, the founders of Ancient Rome, who were said to have been brought up by a she-wolf. The boy was so hungry and ill that he was taken to hospital. It is believed that he lived with these animals since he was very young, because he was terrified of the human beings who found him. A police officer said that he acted like a wild animal and threw himself into the sea. A police officer swam after him to bring him back to the shore. Upon arrival at hospital, his condition was described as serious, but stable. The old saying that the dog is man-s best friend is, after all, true. |
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| WOMAN ALMOST KILLED BY CHAMPAGNE BOMB posted on 2004-01-25 |
| 15:33 2001-06-12 A woman is recovering in hospital, lucky to be alive, after a close encounter of another kind: with an exploding champagne bottle. The woman, from the Brest region of Belarus, was on her way home with a bottle of champagne from the Minsk Champagne Factory in her pocket. Her intended celebrations nearly ended in tragedy, however, when the bottle exploded, causing her severe injuries, including a severed artery. Luckily, she was helped by passers-by who after temporary treatment took her to the local clinic, where she is now in a stable condition. She intends to sue the champagne factory for the accident which nearly cost her life. Champagne bottles are supposed to go ?POP!¦, not ?BANG!¦ |
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| HUMAN FLESH SOLD ON MOLDOVA MARKET posted on 2004-01-25 |
| From April 2001: Officials in Chisinau on 3 April said two people had been arrested on suspicion of having attempted to sell human remains from a hospital as dog meat, RFE/RL's Chisinau bureau reported. Two beggars were detained late last week at a market with two bags of "suspicious meat," which tests later proved to be human remains. Police believe the remains had been dumped in a municipal litter bin near a hospital that specializes in the treatment of cancer. The hospital "suspended" on suspicion of "negligence" one of its employees. MS |
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| Suspect Escapes Jail, Is Eaten by Crocodile posted on 2004-01-25 |
| June 21, 2002 | Reuters PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A 28-year-old Panamanian accused of killing a judge was eaten by a crocodile as he swam across a river after escaping from prison, police said on Thursday. Oswaldo Martinez, accused of murdering judge Harmodio Mariscal on June 5 during a failed robbery in Panama City, was captured last week by police after fleeing to neighboring Costa Rica. After being held in custody in Costa Rica, Martinez broke out of jail at the weekend and was aiming to reenter Panama through the dense jungle that divides the two Central American countries. Martinez was eaten alive by the crocodile on Monday as he tried to swim across the River Terraba in southern Costa Rica, according to eyewitness reports confirmed by police on Thursday. |
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| Soviet Army fought UFOs posted on 2004-01-24 |
01/23/2004 14:47 Soviet military encountered many UFOs, maybe for this reason in the end of the 60s a secret laboratory of researching "flying objects" was created in the USSR. UFO researchers often blame the military of hiding the cases of alien rockets and disseminating false information of UFO. Army officers are not interested in the disputes about alien civilizations, they are interested in knowing what impact UFO can impose to military equipment and personnel. 1947. Antiaircraft guns of Transcaucasian Military District fired on the flying cigar-shaped object which came from the side of the Turkish border. The object"s flying altitude was below 4,000 meters, and the guns were capable of reaching a target at the altitudes up to 12,000 meters, but that time the fire made no harm to the "cigar". Then the cigar increased its speed and flew away over the mountains. This incident could cause much trouble, because earlier the border guards and military ships monitoring service missed this target. Then the military was unable to trace this flying object over the country"s territory. The Border District command ignored and ordered the monitors not to disclose the information that the object reached a speed up to 2000 kilometers per hour. Similar case took place in 1984 in Turkestan Military District. Near the city of Astrakhan air-defense system marked the ball-shaped object flying at the altitude of 2000 meters along the Caspian seashore in the direction of the state border. The object did not respond to the inquiry made by the military on the radio. Two fighter-planes took off, but they were unable to bring the object down. After being under fire, the object descended up to 100 meters, and at this low altitude the planes were unable to continue firing. Despite being fired at, the object was having a regular speed. The ball passed over several military units, which allowed to make its photo. Near the city of Krasnoyarsk the military tried to bring the object down with the helicopter. However, it quickly increased its altitude so that the helicopter could not reach it. After firing all its supply of shells, the helicopter landed, and the ball abruptly flew in the direction of the sea and disappeared from the radar screens. In the same area the similar scenario case happened later. The object having the shape of cylinder demonstrated its invulnerability.> Such a demonstration could be the purpose of its flight, because this UFO was having a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. One can blame the military of inhuman actions on bringing down flying objects. But what can they do if the object was moving in the direction of the state border and they had the order to destroy such objects? In 1985 near the town of Krasnovodsk the radar station under the command of Captain Valuev registered the disc-shaped object in size of 1,000 meters! The object was immovable, and some time later a small disc in size of 5 meters flew out of it and then landed on Krasnovodskaya spit. Patrol boats rushed to that area, but when they reached the distance of 100 meters from the object, it took off and flew one kilometer away. This happened five times. Then the object flew up at a huge speed, reached the bigger disc, which finally flew away spaceward. In the end of the 60s a secret laboratory of researching "flying objects" was created in the USSR. Among the laboratory"s tasks was researching anti-gravitation, but the research results were made secret. Its testing area was near the town of Kapustin Yar on purpose. In the end of June of 1971 the military could see over this area a black cigar-shaped flying object floating under the clouds at the altitude of 800 meters. The object was 25 meters long and had about 3 meters in diameter. It had neither stabilizers nor wings nor engines and was moving at the speed of 150 kilometers per hour producing no noise. In 1978 ЦНДС Soviet Ministry of Defense accepted Network MO program. Special military unit in the town of Mytishi was in charge of collecting data, and newly established "space troops" were designated to fight possible threat from space. In the beginning of August 1987 five soldiers of Leningrad Military District went to the North of Karelia region on a special mission. They were required to guard the object of unknown origin. It was found on the territory of another military unit near the town of Vyborg. The item was 14 meters long, 4 meters wide, 2.5 meters high. The object had neither doors no hatches, and all attempts to open its hull were unsuccessful. The military tried to break off some object parts, but were only able to take some rods from its stern. In the end of September the object disappeared from the hangar without leaving a trace. Alexander Dremin Source: http://www.anomalia.narod.ru/photo/120.htm |
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| The Moon can provide electric power sufficient for posted on 2004-01-24 |
| 01/24/2004 15:13 According to Academician and member of Council on Space of Russian Academy of Science Eric Galimov, the Moon can provide the mankind with electric power sufficient for 1000 years of use. "Scientists think that the Earth supplies of oil, gas and uranium will be exhausted in the 2150s, therefore currently the mankind is required to look for alternative sources of energy", he said in an interview to ITAR-TASS information agency. "Helium-3 is the most promising source of energy, its supplies in the upper layers of the Moon surface are about 500 million tons", the Academician said. There is no this isotope on the Earth, except for several kilograms of it in the depths of our planet. According to Galimov, Helium-3 is "an ideal ecologically safe fuel for nuclear fusion". "Its use produces no radiation, therefore the global problem of nuclear waste burial will cease to exist", - the Academician said. He explained that Helium-3 has been brought to the Moon by solar wind. Scientists discovered this element on the Moon after analyzing its soil samples delivered by Soviet space stations and American astronauts. "To provide the mankind with power sufficient for one year, two or three flights of a spaceship having 10 ton carrying capacity are required", he said. "The expenses on delivering the energy source from the Moon will be ten times less than the cost of the power currently produced by atomic stations", Galimov said. юccording to Galimov, delivering Helium-3 from the Moon can become a reality in 30-40 years, but people should start working on it right now". Developing the project "will cost 25-30 million dollars". The Russian scientist offers to etract Helium-3 from the depths of the Moon by means of special "lunar bulldozers", which will warm the soil and then will shovel up the isotope from the surface. "Lunar projects are economically sound and cheap, and Russia is capable of implementing them", said Galimov. Source: http://www.newsru.com/ |
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| MONKEYS RETURNED TO CAGE posted on 2004-01-24 |
| 17:19 2001-07-03 Yesterday, in broad daylight two monkeys were stolen from Moscow Zoo. The police detained the thiefs - young people of 17-18 years - close on the tracks. It is still not clear, how they managed to steal the monkeys and to bring them out from Zoo territory before eyes of hundreds of visitors. It was Zoo director general Vladimir Spitsin who reported the animals- disappearance to the police. According to him, two monkeys ?Oedipus-s tamarinds¦ (about $ 930 for each) were stolen between 14.00 and 17.00 p.m. After some investigation measures the thiefs were found in Korolev street. The monkeys were seized and returned to the Zoo. Two of the tiefs are jobless, the third one is a cook. The three of them are accused of stealing. |
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| Drunken elephants trample village posted on 2004-01-24 |
| Thursday, October 21, 1999 Published at 23:05 GMT 00:05 UK A herd of elephants that got drunk on rice beer has run amok in a village in Assam in India and killed four people. A local wildlife official said the herd of 15 elephants broke into thatched huts in the village of Prjapatibasti and guzzled the beer that was fermenting in casks. They then rampaged through other huts, killing four members of one family and injuring six others. More than 100 people have died in attacks by elephants in the north-eastern state of Assam in the past year. The state has an elephant population of about 5,500. Elephants are protected under Indian law. Beer has been blamed for previous attacks. Locals say the elephants have developed a taste for the brew. But the main cause of the increasing number of elephant attacks is thought to be the shrinkage of their natural forest habitat. |
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