UFOs invade NT town

27 Jun 08
A SMALL Northern Territory community is still reeling with shock after four UFOs descended on their Outback homes.Families spent hours in fear as what appeared to be three spaceships hovered in the distance with another just metres above their houses.
The drama at Marlinja, population 112 and 730km south of Darwin, began at 8pm on Sunday.Resident Janie Dixon said it started as an "ordinary" night."The kids were on the basketball courts, shooting a few hoops, and I was indoors talking to my two nieces when we heard a strange, loud noise," she said. "We ran outside but at first we couldn't see anything -- it was really dark and we could hear the sound. "The sound was horrible. It sounded like something was going past. We thought it was a jet. I saw what I thought at first was the evening star, the first star you usually see at night. "But then we saw three red lights in the distance, and the sound kept getting louder. "The ground felt like it was shaking, so we ran inside and shut the doors."My nephew and niece were looking out through curtains. The thing came closer, circled around the basketball courts and then came so close above our house. "The kids at the basketball courts ran -- two girls stood there looking towards the sky.
"They tried to see what it was but all they could see was this bright red light in the pitch black."Ms Dixon said the UFO hovered above the homes for what seemed like a couple of hours. She said at one stage the phone rang, but went dead when she tried to answer it."Then the light in the house became so bright, it was like we were sitting in a football stadium," she said."After a while, after the things all disappeared... I think it was about 11pm by then."We went outside and were just sitting around drinking tea and talking about it all. The kids were put to bed.
"We heard the noise again and it came back, but disappeared again moments later.
"We were all really frightened."It was a big shock and I couldn't sleep."

Rain, rain once again! Yay!

Two significant rain bands are delivering rain everywhere from the south-west of WA, to Alice Springs to Victoria.According to The Weather Company, which provides forecasting on FarmOnline, widespread cloud is spreading across all eastern states due to an upper trough.This is generating rain areas across Queensland, western NSW, southeast SA and western Victoria.And a second band of thick cloud is spreading over southwest WA from a cold front, causing rain with locally heavy falls.Already big falls have been recorded overnight and more rain is expected throughout the nation's cropping and grazing areas as both systems move further east today.According to the Bureau of Meteorology's overnight figures, the big falls in Queensland have been in the Channel Country with Birdsville receiving 57mm, Ballera 58mm, and Thargomindah 25mm.In NSW, there has been some coastal rain as well, with Ballina receiving 11mm and Dorrigo 16mm, but it was the western division which received the most promising falls, with Broken Hill recording 14mm, Lake Victoria 96mm, Tibooburra 26mm, White Cliffs 20mm, and Wilcannia 16mm.In Victoria Hopetoun has received 7mm, Walpeup 8mm, Longerenong 8mm, Nhill 7mm, and Warracknabeal 7mm, while in SA Edinburgh recorded 8mm, Strathalbyn 10mm, Nuriootpa 9mm, Kadina and Kingscote 11mm, Minlaton 7mm, Keith 6mm, Loxton and Renmark 11mm, Clare 12mm, Pt Augusta 14mm, Snowtown 10mm, Ceduna 10mm, Moomba 20mm, and Woomera 11mm.The system in WA has brought Dwellingup 9mm, Mandurah 10mm, Bunbury 50mm, Witchcliffe 33mm, Busselton 16mm, while further north Carnarvon received 28mm and Geraldton 13mm.
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Is a Wormhole a portal to another Universe?

Wormholes are a strange consequence of Einstein's theory of general relativity. These "shortcuts" through the fabric of space and time may link two different locations in the universe; they may even connect two different universes together.
This also leads to the possibility that wormholes can allow travel between two points in time. These strange entities have provided science fiction stories with material for many years, but there is credible physics behind wormholes. Now it seems that in theory slowly-rotating wormholes may be able to generate their own magnetic field. Could this be used to detect the presence of wormholes in our observable Universe?
Last month, researchers from the National University of Sciences and Technology in Pakistan investigated the properties of a slowly rotating wormhole and the effect this would have on a surrounding volume of space. Their calculations assume as the wormhole rotates, it drags space with it.
This gravitational effect is known as "frame-dragging". Einstein's general relativity predicts that space-time will be warped. The best way to visualize this is to imagine a heavy ball on an elastic sheet; the ball causes the sheet to stretch downward, in a cone-shape. If the ball is spun on the sheet, friction between the ball and elastic will cause the sheet to distort in another way, it will begin to twist out of shape. If you apply this idea to space-time (the elastic sheet), and you have a slowly rotating wormhole (the ball), distortions in space-time will have a dragging effect on the surrounding particles, causing them to spin with the wormhole.
If you have a rotating mass of charged particles like this, a magnetic field may be generated. Therefore, in theory, a slowly-rotating wormhole could have its own opening inside … ‘negative energy’ if you will, allowing something – or somebody – to travel through and end up somewhere else …. or somewhen else!

Washington Post/Univ Today