Science through jokes

You will laugh to your hearts at the first paragraph. Then you will learn what the concept really is. This is how science is presented here

Chandrayaan-I Know Everything about it

The best one who can tell you about Chandrayaan is ISRO. So, I'm not extending this paragraph to the end of this page. Here's the link ISRO Brochure

Payloads of Chandrayaan-I

There are 11 payloads of which 5 are Indian, 3 of ESA, 2 of United States and 1 is from Bulgaria.

The 5 Indian ones are

1. Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC): For complete mapping of moon topography.
2. Hyperspectral Imager (HySI): a CCD camera designed to obtain the spectroscopic data for mapping of minerals on the surface of the moon as well as for understanding the mineralogical composition of the moon's interior
3. Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI): To provide necessary data for determining the accurate altitude of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft above the lunar surface. To determine the global topographical field of the Moon as well as to generate an improved model for the lunar gravity field.
4. High Energy X-ray Spectrometer (HEX): 1st planetary experiment to carry out spectral studies at 'hard' X-ray energies using good energy resolution detectors. Designed to help explore the possibility of identifying polar regions covered by thick water-ice deposits as well as to identify regions of high Uranium and Thorium concentrations.
5. Moon Impact Probe (MIP):To demonstrate the technologies required for landing a probe at the desired location on the moon.

More at ISRO

Other payloads

1. Chandrayaan-1 Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS): This instrument intends to carry out high quality mapping of the moon using X-ray fluorescence technique for measuring elemental abundance of Magnesium, Aluminium, Silicon, Iron and Titanium distributed over the surface of the moon.
2. Smart Near Infrared Spectrometer (SIR-2): This instrument aims to study the lunar surface to explore the mineral resources, the formation of its surface features, the way different layers of the moon's crust lie over one another and the way materials are altered in space.
3. Sub keV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA): The aim of this instrument is to study the surface composition of the moon, the way in which moon's surface reacts with solar wind, the way in which surface materials on the surface of the moon change and the magnetic anomalies associated with the surface of the moon.
4. The Bulgarian 1
   Radiation Dose Monitor (RADOM): This instrument aims to qualitatively and quantitatively characterise the radiation environment in space around the moon’s vicinity. It will help study the radiation dose map of space near the moon at various latitudes and altitudes.
5. Nasa's 2
   Mini Syntheic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR): This is one of the two scientific instruments of the United States flown in Chandrayaan-1 mission
6. Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3): This is an imaging spectrometer which is intended to assess and map lunar mineral resources at high spatial and spectral resolution to support planning for future targeted missions.

Read more at ISRO

The goals of Chandrayaan-I

Primarily, Chandrayaan-I is dedicated
1. To know more about the moon
2. To improve Indian technology
3. To provide chances in planetary research for young Indian Scientists

These will be met through high resolution remote sensing of the moon in the visible, near infrared, microwave and X-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. With this, preparation of a 3-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and chemical mapping of entire lunar surface is envisaged.

Thanks to ISRO

Chandrayaan-I in work

It's all clear. And as planned, Chandrayaan was carried into its orbit around the earth by PSLV-C11, today (22 October, 2008) morning at 6.22 AM. It will now change into a more elliptical orbit and finally shift to the orbit around moon.

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How to become the center of attraction

It is human nature to yearn for attention. But everyone is certainly not going to be successful in this very particular case, just as there can't be two lions in a single pride. Now there are many ways to make people listen to you. But attention must be bought. It can't automatically come to you without you doing something. Now keep in mind these things:

• The world is a mirror. It gives you back whatever you give it. So to earn attention, you will have to pay it too.
  
  
• The best way to have people around you and the best way to have friends around you is the same: befriend who is around you. And the best way to make friends is to talk. Talk something. Anything. Words have a magical touch. As the graviton pulls the body it reaches to the body it left, words attract people to the one who lets out them and bind them with emotional gravity to the speaker. Therefore to have people glued around you, always talk something so that if they go away, they would miss something.
  
  
• Don't show that you are eager to receive attention. But unobtrusively, start gaining attention.
  
  
• One thing you will have to certainly avoid from your life is skipping chances. There can be no other thing as agonizing as a wasted opportunity. If you get a chance to perform, do it then and there. Hesitate for a moment and it's lost. There's no way you can buy back the chance, and almost surely the same chance will not come to you again.
  
  
• Keep smiling. Ha! This one. It's sure gonna be a grand success. Unless there are around you people who are very nice that they hate smiling people, you're always gone to be admired if you keep a smiling face 24/7. Now the only problem is you will have to widen your mouth a little extra than your natural pose to smile to a person.
  
  
• Always be frank. There is no quality better than frankness that's going to attract people. Be ready to admit mistakes. Do tell out loud the silly mistake that you committed. Because, if you try to hide up, and if someone had seen it, then there's no way that you can roll out of the issue. Honesty is the best policy.
  

Best of luck

Relativity : The Special and General Theory : Albert Einstein

So. You went about virtually throughout the internet and couldn't understand what relativity is. Think you could if the man who found it explained to you. Here is the chance, this pdf e-book is the original introduction (or is it complete?) to both the theories given by Einstein himself.

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New feature in Orkut - view conversation

And Orkut is turning more facebook like by adding new features which were once exclusive for the latter one. The latest change is the adding of an option called view conversation on the right side of reply in scrapbooks that let you view the entire conversations, and now you will not have to flip pages of yours / your friend's scrapbook to understand what he meant by a scrap : "Yes, I will".

Check it out yourself Goto scrapbook

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 (Nobel Prize in Economics)

Paul Krugman (b. 1953) of USA wins this year's The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.

Source : Nobelprize.org

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Self Confidence and Attitude

A story that I got from Success does not come in a day community in Orkut. Thanks to the TS Duttkumar

A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment.

He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him.

"I can see that something is troubling you," he said. After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you."

He asked the man his name, wrote out a cheque, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time." Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. But instead, the executive decided to put the un-cashed check in his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the un-cashed check.

At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.

"I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller. "

And she led the old man away by the arm.

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him.

Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

Have faith in your self as only that counts.

Aren't we naturally immune to HIV?

Our immune system can ward off almost all the diseases that catch human beings. But what about HIV? Why can't we keep off it too? Are the yogis immune to HIV?
All of these questions bring us to one answer - "We were immune to HIV." There is an enzyme called APOBEC - 3G that can fight HIV by stopping the virus from replication. But why are millions dying?
Because HI Virus has improved itself. It has evolved so as to have a code which produces the protein Vif called "virulence factor". This Vif attaches with APOBEC -3G so that the focus of our enzyme is lost and at the very same moment, HIV gets inside. The watch dog is done with, there is nothing to fear.
But research has begun to find whether or not we can benefit from this body mechanism.
More on ScienceDaily

Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

The bible of scouting - Scouting for boys.

BP wrote this book exclusively for children who wish to offer service to their motherland. Spread over 28 yarns, this is surely going to change you. It expresses BP's idea of perfect children needed by the nation.

Wikibooks - books of the future

It's just a fascinating idea. A book. An ebook. That can be edited by anyone, anywhere, anytime. And a collection of these, available at a website. Only wikimedia can do that.
The concept which I believe has been conveyed by now is one of the best merits that internet has brought to human beings. No writer may be complete by himself. But the latest form of literature removes that problem - of the incompleteness.

So, to read complete books, go to wikibooks

(If you want to learn about some other useful sites that offer e-book version of famous works click here)

Why we do what we do

There was nothing...

Then, there was a point...
It was infinitely heavy.

It started expanding...
Matter started to get its physical laws.

Dust particles condensed.
Condensed dust particles joined.
Joined condensed dust particles grouped.
Galaxies were formed.

Galaxies meant lot of stars.
Lot of stars meant lot more celestial bodies other than the glowing bodies.
It meant lot of planets.
Lot of planets meant different planets.
Different planets meant different conditions.
Different conditions meant different environments.

And there was one galaxy called Milky Way.
There was one star called Sun.
There was one planet called Earth.
It had a different environment.

There was a spontaneous creation of Organic molecules.

There was changes in the environment.
There was an urge in the Organic molecules to live - (THE SECRET OF LIFE)
There was adaptation.
There was evolution...

Because it was at a distance not too far and not too near to sun - the temperature was optimum for liquid water;
Because its size was not too large, and therefore gravity was not so large to make water solid;
Because its size was not too small, its atmosphere was not too thin, so water could not be dried;

Because there were large amounts of oxygen present in the seas as compounds that gradually gased out;

Life could exist...

Evolution continued...
Organisms became complex.
Porifera
Coelenterata
Platyhelminthes
Nemotoda
Arachnida
Arthropoda
Mollusca
Echinodermata
Protochordata
Vertebrata

And in the last type of organisms, there was man.
He was a fool.
He learned hunting.
He learned cooking.
He learned making tools.
He learned agriculture.
He found out wheels.
He found out steam.
He found out uranium...
He explored...
He implored...

He made divisions.
He made countries.
He made laws.
He broke them.
He waged wars.
He killed.
He gave birth (or She?)
He lived...

He found out why for 12 hours he could see everything, but for another 12 hours he couldn't without electricity.
He found out why paper burnt...

He found out how to talk.
He found out how to talk with people metres away.
He found out how to talk with people kilometres away.
He found out how to talk with people countries away.
He found out how to talk with people planets away...

He found out why he was like his father and mother.

He found out that he wanted to find out everything.
He found out that he wanted to survive.
But he couldn't find why.
He couldn't find why he thought what he thought.
He couldn't find why he did what he did.

He can never find it.
Because it is the SECRET OF LIFE.
It is a secret of the nature.
And nature stores secret with an encryption no hacker can hack.

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2008

Martti Ahtisaari (b.1937) of Finland won this years Peace Nobel for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.

Source : Nobelprize.org

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (b.1940) of France wins this years Nobel Prize in Literature because he is an author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization

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Lightning quick copying softwares

TeraCopy is a software that

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.

go to Its home page

download it directly

FastCopy is a software that can increase be used to copy files from within your computer or between USB drive and computer - lightining fast. The software has a cluttered interface. But when it comes to performance, the free software can thrill you because it is really very fast.

Go to FastCopy home page

Download FastCopy directly

Two way mirrors in changing rooms

There are some mirrors which allow to see through on one side while seeming like a mirror on the other side (Seen it in any James Bond film?). These may be very useful when you build your house. But when these kinds of glasses are kept in improper places, you may be being cheated. There might be someone behind you watching you. So how do you know whether you are watching into a genuine mirror or a mirror-cum-glass one?
I would be cheating if I put the solution here, because I got this from another blog. So I will post the link : Bioinformatiz

GeoEye-1 will take google's maps to new depths

The launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite by GeoEye (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation or ORBIMAGE), a commercial satellite imagery company based in Dulles, Virginia, marks the coming of higher resolution maps in the internet.
Until now there has only been maps of commercial imagery 60 cm, but with GeoEye-1, google will get details of objects of size 50 cm (though the satellite can get 41 cm images). Thus we will be getting clearer maps of the places around us.
For more details goto GeoEye

CBSE class 10 and class 12 exams

CBSE 10th and 12th Examination will start from 2nd March 2009. The detailed datesheet will be published in the last week of December 2008

Source : CBSE

Utimate guide to Einstein's theories

Relativity, mechanics, magnetism, special relativity, e=mc*c

Everything related to Einstein

My best friend just mailed me the link : einsteinlight

The US side of the N-Deal to be completed today

George Bush will make the Indo-US nuclear deal a law. Thereby, India will be in a position to complete the deal that will save us from energy crisis in years to come?

Read more at the source : NDTV

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

Osamu Shimomura (b.1928, Japanese, but won the nobel in USA), Martin Chalfie (b.1947, USA) and Roger Y. Tsien (b.1952, Chinese-American) share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry cash award (of 10,000,000 Swedish kronor = 68.3089588 million Indian rupees, thus getting 22.7696529 million INR) each for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP

Source : Nobelprize.org

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Gmail Labs : Inbuilt tools in gmail

Those gmail users among you probably didn't knew that gmail offers a short but useful list of tools and patches that can change your whole experience with gmail.
To access these handy lab products, you needn't go to any other website. It is right there as the last tab in settings page.
And to go directly to it from this blog, Click here.

Enable the tools that you may need ny clicking enable and don't forget to save. Gmail will automatically restart with your new tools ready

The 11 Gmail keyboard shortcuts

The 11 easy to use keyboard shortcuts in gmail are as follows (these are the defaul keys, they can be changed at any time).

1. k - newer mail,
2. j - older mail (both works both in inbox and in mails)
3. x - select mail
4. y and e - archive
5. enter - enter the mail
6. r - reply
7. a - reply to all
8. f - forward
9. Tab + enter - Send
10. g + i - goto inbox
11. s - star

? - show the shortcuts

Now you are really going to throw that mouse away.

Here is the real and more interesting article at gmailblog

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

Yoichiro Nambu (b. 1921) of USA wins 1/2 of the prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

Makoto Kobayashi (b.1944) and Toshihide Maskawa (b.1940), both from Japan will get 1/4 of the prize for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

Source : Nobelprize.org

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Chandrayaan launch on October 22

Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar mission (of course unmanned) is all set to be launched from the spaceport of Sriharikota at 6:20 AM on October 22, according to ISRO sources. The satellite has already been transported from Banglore to Sriharikota in a special vehicle and is currently at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC, but called SHAR as the acronym for its previous name - Sriharikota Range).

PS : It would be launched on board PSLV-C11.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008

This years Nobel Prize for medicine is shared by three European scientists who discovered viruses that cause cervical cancer and AIDS.
Harald zur Hausen (b. 1936) (Tel.: (06221) 42 - 28 50), a German virologist, who discovered the human papilloma viruses (H.P.V.), thus leading to the development of vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) against cervical cancer - the second most common cancer among women after breast cancer - will recieve half the award (5 000 000 Swedish kronor = 32.9111834 million Indian rupees).

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (b. 1947) and Luc Montagnier (b. 1932), both from France, will share the other half of the award (2 500 000 Swedish kronor = 16.4555917 million Indian rupees) but will get full medals and certificates for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, which needs no introduction.


Sources :
1) NobelPrize.org
2) The New York Times

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Proofs for the existence of God

Those who are true believers needn't see this because your beliefs are going to be smashed around.
Those who are in between believing and not, do read
Those who are non-believers read and laugh your heart out
100's of reasons why God exists

Xenophobia

OK. You've heard that term too many times. But still doesn't know the meaning quite exact, right?

Now here it is
Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear." The term is typically used to describe a fear or dislike of foreigners or of people significantly different from oneself.

Samuel Goldwyn

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

Wiki Sisters - the unfamiliar ones

All of us know well about wikipedia. But how many of us actually know its sisters, and its parent?
Wikipedia was developed by Wiki Media Foundation and it has many projects under it other than the very popular wikipedia. Let me list each of them with a small description.

• Wiktionary : multilingual free content dictionary in every language
• Wikiquote : quotations taken from famous people, books, speeches, films or any intellectually interesting materials. Proverbs, mnemonics or slogans are also included in Wikiquote
• Wikibooks : collection of free e-book resources, including textbooks, language courses, manuals, and annotated public domain books
• Wikisource : collection of texts that could be distributed as free and open content
• Wikispecies : species database for taxonomy
• Wikinews : news on a wide variety of subjects
• Wikiversity : learning materials and learning communities, as well as research
• Wikimedia Commons : repository for free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media

AIDS spreading in new ways

FROM Arvind Khamitkar , I.A.S, Director of Medical & Research Div, Chennai
Dear Friends,
A few weeks ago, in a movie theatre, a person felt something poking from her seat. When she got up to see what it was, she found a Needle sticking out of the seat with a note attached saying
'You have just been infected by HIV'.
The Disease Control Center (in Paris ) reports many similar events in many other cities recently. All tested needles were HIV Positive. The Center also reports that needles have been found in cash dispensers at public banking machines. We ask everyone to use extreme caution when faced with this kind of situation. All public chairs/seats should be inspected with vigilance and caution before use. A careful visual inspection should be enough. In addition, they ask that each of you pass this message along to all members of your family and your friends of the potential danger.
Recently, one doctor has narrated a somewhat similar instance that happened to one of his patients at the Priya Cinema in Delhi ... A young girl, engaged and about to be married in a couple of months, was pricked while the movie was going on. The tag with the needle had the message 'Welcome to the World of HIV family'.
Though the doctors told her family that it takes about 6 Months before the virus grows strong enough to start Damaging the system and a healthy victim could survive about 5-6 years,the girl died in 4 months, perhaps more because of the 'Shock thought'. We all have to be careful at public places, rest God help! Just think about saving a life by forwarding this message. Please, take a few seconds of your time to pass along.
With Regards, Arvind Khamitkar, I.A.S, Director of Medical & Research Div, Chennai.
Kindly pass this to every one. Probably your mail can help some save his/her life

Nuclear Deal to come soon

Nuclear deal is on the footsteps of Indian doors. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a press conference after talks with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the bill concerning the Indo-US Nuclear Deal has been passed by the US Congress and will be signed by the President, soon, thereby making it a law. After this process, the deal can be signed mutually. Rice assured that US will not deter from its commitments to India.
More from : indiatimes, zeenews