Francois Gissy from Alsace recorded a top speed of 163mph on his self-built vehicle on an old runway in Munchhouse in North Eastern France.

This record beat his previous mark of 150 mph, set in 2002, and just missed out on the powered bike speed record set in 1995 by the Slipstream bike by 3mph.

Gissy designed the bike himself while Swiss company Exotic Thermo Engineering (ETE) and engineer Arnold Neracher designed the rocket that propelled it

ETE’s rocket used hydrogen peroxide and is called an ‘ecological monopropellant motor.’

The rocket works by putting concentrated liquid hydrogen peroxide into a storage tank that contains a catalyst.

The fuel can be a liquid, such as pure alcohol called ethanol that is sprayed in after the catalyst chamber.

The hot steam is then pushed through a nozzle attached to the end of the rock and this provides the thrust need to push the bicycle forward.

Ke$ha said that she fell in love with the ghost over the last few months.  ”He was visiting me every night before I went to bed.  We talked and got really close and then, one thing led to another,” the singer reportedly said.

She does not feel that she is crazy or that it is unusual to be dating a ghost.

In an interview with Ryan Seacrest, Ke$ha revealed last September that she had multiple intimate experiences with a ghost and that her song Supernatural was inspired by the affair.

“I don’t know I would fall in love with him,” Ke$ha said. “He was a ghost! But I was very open to it.”

Ke$ha wants to marry her ghost boyfriend, who she simply calls, TJ.    ”TJ and I want to get married and we are hoping to married in San Francisco sometime in the Fall,” the singer reportedly said.

There are no laws on the books that currently prevent a person from marrying a ghost in California, but in Las Vegas, woman have been marrying Elvis for decades

Ke$ha’s Warrior Tour begins May 29 in Portsmouth, Virginia.

After 17 years underground — and after plenty of headlines heralding their arrival — Brood II cicadas are starting to pop their beady, red eyes out.  And they seem to be angry.

Brood X cicadas — another batch that also emerges every 17 years — last took the region by storm in 2004. In some local neighborhoods, it was nearly impossible to walk down the sidewalks without inadvertently squashing them.

Brood II are much more aggressive and have repeatedly attacked humans.

The cicadas will be gone within four to six weeks — but the swarm will do considerable damage to property and authorities are expecting 500-1,000 fatalities from cicada attacks.

The estimates are that the cicadas will extremely thick:  1.5 million cicadas per acre.

The males make an extremely loud buzzing sound to call their mates. The sound of a tree crowded with cicadas has been measured at 90 decibels — louder than truck traffic.

It seems only memorable things are 19-feet long: a stretch Mercedes-Benz wagon, the longest carrot ever recorded and now, the largest-ever Burmese python recorded in Florida.

The 128-pound, 18-foot-8-inch reptile was caught by a Miami man who spotted it earlier this month while out driving, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The reptile surpasses the previous record of 17 feet 7 inches, according to University of Florida scientists.

The man, Jason Leon, was riding late on the night of May 11 in a rural area of Miami-Dade County when he noticed the reptile extending about three feet into the road from some brush, said Carli Segelson, spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Leon might have recognized the species. Before it became illegal to owen a Burmese python as a pet in Florida in August 2010, Leon had owned some of the reptiles, Segelson said.

Leon stopped the car, got out, grabbed the snake by the head and began dragging it out into the road, according to a commission statement. When the snake began to wrap itself around his leg, Leon killed it with a knife. The creature is nonvenomous, according to the commission.

Leon reported the capture to the commission, which turned the snake over to its partners at the University of Florida Research and Education Center in Fort Lauderdale.

“The FWC is grateful to him both for safely removing such a large Burmese python and for reporting its capture,” Kristen Sommers, head of the Exotic Species Coordination Section of the conservation commission, said in a statement.

Leon could not be reached.

In one of two photos posted to the commission’s Facebook page, Leon appears to be struggling to hold up the large reptile. In another photo taken at the University of Florida, three research staffers lying on the floor foot to head are the same length as the snake.

Burmese pythons are generally docile creatures that can weigh up to 200 pounds and reach the girth of a telephone pole, according to the National Geographic website.

According to the Florida commission, the species is invasive and has negative impacts on the Everglades.

“The embryos are still intact and we can extract enough DNS to clone the creatures,” one scientist said.  ”In effect, we can hatch the eggs just as well as the mommy dino could.”

In all, 340 eggs belonging to a primitive dinosaur species named Massopondylus, a smaller ancestor of the gigantic, long-decked sauropods of the Jurassic period, were found in 34 separate nests.

“The nests were covered by a mud flow that happened very quickly, possible the result of an earthquake,” the scientist said.  ”That’s why the embryos are so well preserved.  They still contain viable DNA and within a month or so we will successfully clone one or several of the creatures.”

Although the mother who tended the nest was about 50 feet long, her eggs are only about three times the size of chicken eggs.

“For that reason we will be using ostrich eggs to grow the embryos until they hatch,” the scientist said.  ”There is no reason at all that the dinosaur babies will not be healthy and ready to fend for itself.”

Sources close to the South African government say TV networks in the United States and Europe are prepared to bid high for the exclusive coverage of the dinosaur births.

“They want to film a live dinosaur pecking its way out of a shell,” the scientist said, “the first time it’s happened in 60 million years.  It will be a wonderful experience for TV viewers across the world.”

Karen Osborn, a research zoologist at the Smithsonian Institute, has captured a series of never-before-recorded photographs of the fascinating creatures, which she collected while scuba diving off the coast of Mexico and California.

Sea butterflies, also known as pteropods, are related to snails but they use their muscular foot to swim through the ocean rather than creep along the ground.

Witches’ broomsticks are considered similar to any heavier-than-air transportation device that is airborne, and are thus regulated by the FAA.

“A witch on a broomstick can not fly above the 2,000 feet,” an FAA  representative, Gavin Riddell told WWN.  Hundreds of witches chose to defy this law this week and they were arrested.  ”We will not tolerate rogue witches,” said Riddell.

There are no penalties  for witches flying below 2,000 feet, as witches have done for centuries.

“Witchcraft isn’t a joke,” said Kansas City Councilwoman, Jeanette Rizzi.  ”Witches belong to a the Wiccan religion and they need to be respected.  We can’t order witches not to fly, just as we can’t order Catholics not to go to mass.  But, we can regulate them so that they do not cause any accidents in our airspace.”

Kansas law also forbids toy helicopters and children’s kites from ascending too high into Kansas airspace.

There are regulations, as well, as to how long the broomstick can be that witches use and they broomsticks must be approved by the FAA.  ”We don’t want witches using unsafe broomsticks.  They can fly all they want, but we con’t want them hurting themselves or others,” said Rizzi.

Other states are thinking of adopting the Kansas Flying Witch Law.. except Massachusetts, where they still burn their witches.

It’s a fast-moving eruption that is sending a large amount of radiation toward Earth.

The solar flare occurred at about 11 p.m. EST Saturday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado.

The radiation is a concern for massive satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communication problems for polar-traveling airplanes, said space weather center physicist Darvin Zillman.

Radiation from Saturday’s flare arrived at Earth an hour later and will likely continue through Wednesday. Levels are considered extreme. .

The radiation – in the form of protons – came flying out of the sun at 193 million miles per hour.

“The whole volume of space between here and Jupiter is just filled with protons and you just don’t get rid of them like that,” Zillman said. That’s why the effects will stick around for weeks.

NASA’s flight surgeons and solar experts examined the solar flare’s expected effects and decided that the six astronauts on the International Space Station do not have to do anything to protect themselves from the radiation, spokesman Rob Natinas said.

A solar eruption is followed by a one-two-three punch, said Arvati Plowkin,  a physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Catholic University.

First comes electromagnetic radiation, followed by radiation in the form of protons.

Then, finally the coronal mass ejection – that’s the plasma from the sun itself – hits. Usually that travels at about 1 or 2 million miles per hour, but this storm is particularly speedy and is shooting out at 4 million miles per hour, Biesecker said.

It’s the plasma that causes much of the noticeable problems on Earth, such as electrical grid outages. In 1989, a solar storm caused a massive blackout in Quebec. It can also pull the northern lights further south.

But this coronal mass ejection seems likely to be only moderate, with a chance for becoming strong, Biesecker said. The worst of the storm is likely to go north of Earth.

And unlike last October, when a freak solar storm caused auroras to be seen as far south as Alabama, the northern lights aren’t likely to dip too far south this time, Zillman said. Parts of New England, upstate New York, northern Michigan, Montana and the Pacific Northwest could see an aurora but not until Tuesday evening, he said.

For the past several years the sun had been quiet, almost too quiet. Part of that was the normal calm part of the sun’s 11-year cycle of activity. Last year, scientists started to speculate that the sun was going into an unusually quiet cycle that seems to happen maybe once a century or so.

Now that super-quiet cycle doesn’t seem as likely, Biesecker said.

Scientists watching the sun with a new NASA satellite launched in 2010 – during the sun’s quiet period – are excited.

“We haven’t had anything like this for a very long,” Pulkkinen said. “It’s special to watch the earth get bombarded with radiation.  We’re having fun.”