115 year-old turtle wants a divorce

Here's an unusual story from the AustrianTimes. The Austrian Zoo has a pair of giant turtles that have been together for over 100 years.

Zoo boss Helga added: "They are both 115 years old - they have been together since they were young and grew up together, eventually becoming a pair.

But the honeymoon is over...

Zoo management have called in animal experts to try and give the pair counselling - feeding them romantic good mood food, ... but so far without effect.

Zoo staff realised there was trouble then Bibi attacked her partner and bit off a chunk of his shell. And then continued attacking. (Not tonight, I have a headache?)

"For no reason that anyone can discover they seem to have fallen out, they just can't stand each other."

The zookeepers refuse to give up hope of reconciliation,

"We have staff talking to and trying to engage the two in interacting, and we hope that they might find their harmony again."

Look, up in the sky, it's???

"When it is darkest, men see the stars."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

On December 9, the spiral show at right was seen floating in the sky of northern Norway for 15 minutes. Was this an alien invasion? The time vortex of Dr. Who? The return of the Christmas Star?

No, Russia admitted this was a failed missile test of a submarine-launched Bulava ballistic missile.

"It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in colour to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end," eye witness Nick Banbury of Harstad said, according to Spaceweather.com. "This spiral then got bigger and bigger until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to Earth."

Bottom Line

Truth is often stranger than fiction. Once as a young teen I got lost returning from a campground bathroom at night and wished that I had a light. Suddenly a meteor streaked across the sky and exploded - making the night as bright as day for a second or two. Just long enough for me to spot the path I needed to get back to the family tent. I've never experienced anything like that again.

Update

On the topic of odd but true, Cassini Sends First Full Images of Saturn's Mysterious Giant Hexagon