MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday.

“A pack of cement used in creating … good weather in the capital region … failed to pulverize completely at high altitude and fell on the roof of a house, making a hole about 80-100 cm (2.5-3 ft),” police in Naro-Fominsk told agency RIA-Novosti.

Ahead of major public holidays the Russian Air Force often dispatches up to 12 cargo planes carrying loads of silver iodide, liquid nitrogen and cement powder to seed clouds above Moscow and empty the skies of moisture.

A spokesman for the Russian Air Force refused to comment.

June 12 was Russia Day, a patriotic holiday celebrating the country’s independence after the break-up of the Soviet Union.

Weather specialists said the cement’s failure to turn to powder was the first hiccup in 20 years.

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A political rally has been broken up in Russia by a remote-controlled flying penis.

Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov was addressing supporters when it was released.

The former chess champion managed to keep a fairly straight face in front of 500 Kremlin critics.

Eventually a security guard swatted the obscene helicopter device out of the air.

It was reportedly set off by pro-Kremlin Young Russia activists.

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The fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum can harness dangerous radiation to grow.

Fungi could eat dangerous radiation to survive, an unexpected finding that could one day help feed astronauts in space — at least those willing to eat a crawling fungus.

The research began with the discovery of black fungus growing on the walls of the damaged, highly radioactive Chernobyl nuclear reactor and collected by robots.

The fungus was rich with melanin, the same pigment that gives human skin its color, protecting the skin from solar and ultraviolet radiation. Melanin is found in many, if not most, fungal species.

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“The fungal kingdom comprises more species than any other plant or animal kingdom,” said researcher Arturo Casadevall, an immunologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

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