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Neil Graves, in the February 19 edition of the New York Post, writes that New Yorkers from lower Manhattan to Brooklyn were jolted awake when what seems to have been a military jet buzzed overhead in the middle of the night.

Residents said windows rattled and buildings shook when the low-flying jet roared over the city at approximately 4:30 a.m. A second boom erupted a few minutes later. ?I haven?t been that scared since September 11,? says one person who was awakened by the sound.

?My wife heard the plane coming through on 9/11, and she thought it was that all over again,? says a man who lives near Ground Zero.

Heidi Reich, who lives in Greenwich Village, says, ?I thought I?d walk downstairs and not see the Empire State Building anymore.? read more

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A small and unusual lobster caught off the Isles of Scilly in the U.K. may be a result of global warming. The 5inch-long lobster is normally found around the coasts of the Mediterranean and only about a dozen have been recorded in English waters in the past 250 years. But the one caught by fisherman Barry Bennett is the fifth one caught in British waters since 1999.

It was taken to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, where it joins the growing group of warm-water fish and marine life that are coming further north towards the British Isles because the temperature of the ocean is rising.
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The World Resources Institute (WRI), A U.S. environmental group, says future Winter Olympics could be in jeopardy because of global warming. Winters will be shorter and warmer, and there may not be enough snow for the competition. The problem will affect Europe as well as north America. The 2006 Winter Olympic Games are due to be held in the Italian city of Turin.
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Researchers are trying to figure out the ideal number of people needed to create a viable population for multi-generational space travel. They?ve decided it needs to be 160 people. But with some social engineering it might even be possible to reduce this to 80.

Anthropologist John Moore of the University of Florida wondered how future humans might successfully undertake century-long journeys out into space. Other scientists have concentrated on freezing people with cryogenics or taking along sperm banks, but Moore says, ?the ?right stuff? for a journey into space is the family?a million-year-old institution designed to assist reproduction.?
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