Archive for the ‘Sci-Tech’ Category
- Jan 10155 Comments
When the moon acts like a slow Shutter to the celestial camera, and when the shutter closes completely the beautiful celestial photograph of a night sky with Sun and its Corona becomes visible.
- Dec 0917
Atheist’s Riddle – Evolution vs Intelligent Design
Posted by Gurudev under Sci-Tech
Tags: atheist's riddle, Bacteria, creationism, evolution, Flavobacterium, intelligent design, nylon12 CommentsEven though DNA is called the genetic code, its not code in the sense of a software code or a software program, it has no logic in it, it is more comparable to a software database.
- Oct 0996 Comments
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? –A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we… are the cure.” – Agent Smith
- Feb 09168 Comments
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future -Marya Mannes
We keep hearing the cries every day to save the planet! Environmentalists campaign everyday to save life on this planet!! Recently I witnessed a campaign in which [...] - Oct 0822No Comments
About 30 Kms away from the IT capital of India – Bangalore – lies a small village called Byalalu. Here if you ask the villagers, about what their village is well known for – the reply you receive will be – we get good rainfall here, people here work very hard and the farmers grow [...]
- Jul 0818No Comments
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
Just imagine how nice it would be if you would be able to access all those different systems at office, your ATM, etc without having to remember all those usernames and passwords!Imagine if there was [...]
- Mar 0828No Comments
It all started long long ago..
40,000 BCE…
In the dense forests of africa a group of pre-historic humans are working hard all day long, lifting rocks, moving boulders, breaking and rearranging them, clearing the entrance of a cave, to build a new home for themselves. Humans then used to do all the physical labour themselves. Each [...] - Mar 0825No Comments
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I wonder what you are? All your light from the world so high Why isn’t it visible in the night sky?
Okay, this was my attempt to poetically state the Olber’s paradox
Olber looking at the night sky started wondering, and came up with a reasonable paradox of his [...] - Jan 083110 Comments
I am the shark among the fishes, and the Ganges among the rivers – Krishna in Bhagavadgita
In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: The Ganges, above all is the river of India, which has held India’s heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. The story of [...] - Nov 071717 Comments
Indian supercomputer Eka (meaning one in sanskrit) built by the Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) of the Tata Group is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world! Great going! The top two fastest ones are from US and the third one is from New Mexico.
Then, read a news report which said that MDGRAPE-3, a new [...] - Oct 07239 Comments
Whatever is here, is found elsewhere. But what is not here, is nowhere else. – Thus goes a line in the first chapter of Mahabharata
In the 21st century, the same could be said about the Internet
Internet has become the sum total of the entire knowledge collected by humans all over the known history.
Thousands and thousands [...] - Oct 071737 Comments
Disclaimer: Trying to be as non-technical as possible, requires basic physics at the level of quantum mechanics and relativity
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Unlike other physicists, Einstein developed almost the complete theory of relativity based on this thought experiments. In other words, he carried out the experiments of his theory in his mind! He set [...] - Oct 071317 Comments
Today is the tomorrow that we used to worry about yesterday
So folks, stop worrying, for worry is the misuse of imagination.
Use your imagination wisely, and think about the shape of time!
Shape? Yes, not a physical shape, but an imaginay one.
As we are aware, time flows at the rate of one second per second, locally!
Why only [...] - Oct 0785 Comments
How is it possible to see the past via a live telecast? Live means present, right ? How can past be telecasted live?
Clue: Light cones.
So here we go
Wouldnt it be nice if we can watch the actual video of the evolution of our solar system?
How were the planets around the sum formed? How were the [...] - Sep 07235 Comments
Never take your life seriously. Nobody gets out of it alive anyway
Not only people die, even civilizations die, even planets die, stars die, and so does the universe too!
Once I had written an article called How to avoid death , and some cool guy commented on it saying Death can be avoided.. [...] - Sep 07625 Comments
Richard Feynman once said about quantum mechanics If you say that you understand quantum mechanics, and if you are NOT surprised, then you really did not understand quantum mechanics !
The reason being there are so many mysteries and puzzles in the field of quantum mechanics that otherwise would be considered super natural, unscientific, etc by [...] - Sep 07322 Comments
With the successful launch of the India’s multistage GSLV rocket carrying the indigenous communication satellite Insat-4CR on September 2, India has now become capable of launching satellites into Geo Synchronous Orbits with the only other countries in the world with this capability being US, Russia, European Union, China and Japan.
India with this launch has now [...] - Sep 07114 Comments
Brahmaputra + Moscow = Brahmos
This is how the name Brahmos was arrived at, using the names of two great rivers of India and Russia, for the world’s fastest cruise missile which travels at a supersonic speed of Mach 2.8!! In fact as of today it is the world’s only supersonic cruise missile!Brahmos is a [...]
- Aug 0786 Comments
We are aware of the search functionality in the internet and on our local desktops
We can search for specific information in the internet using search engines like Google..
We can search for specific documents, email messages etc in our local desktop
Now what about searching ourselves?
Today morning I had forgotten about where I had placed my bike [...] - Aug 0726 Comments
When I was in the school once I had read that Jupiter just missed from becoming a star! In other words it was a failed star and became a planet!
Jupiter as we know is the largest planet in the solar system, about 2.5 times larger than all other planets put together.. If it had been [...]
