It was quite a while that I did not bother to rework on the page template.Over the weekend I worked on the look and feel of this blog.
Title Description,My picture, Search bar, AdSense and feed burner is added.
Hope you like this new look.
Visited HAL Aerospace museum with a School from Coorg yesterday.
If you want to understand the Indian Aviation program, this is the place.
Pictures of early days of HAL, Models of MIG,SUKHOI and LCA, Engines of the flyers,etc Well putup.
My second visit.
There is one picture in the first floor of the museum. It is a tree which represents
Indian Space Program from the days of Aryabhata to year 2004.
After Aryabhata, we all should be proud of, is GSLV program.
Aryabhata was an Indian satelite but put into orbit by a *Russian* Vehicle.
GSLV is a launch vehicle, which can carry satelites.
Even before GSLV India had put several satelites into orbit using Indian rockets. But they were low altitude orbits. Say 300 to 600 kms.
Putting a satelite in geo stationary orbits is technically more challenging. Because, the orbit exists at 36000 kms, which is 70 times much farther.
Higher the altitude, more the thrust required. So is the complexity of the launch vehicle. That’s why GSLV is more special.
Life is at complete standstill. Since am so used to Bangalore life style. Always on feet all the time. Something or other occupying the mind space. I am so empty handed here.
Sleep three times a day and flip 45 channels a minute. Still the clock does not tick.
This is so very unlike me.
Probably its the right way to end the year which has been so very eventful.
Let me share some highlights of the year 2006
A irvana and the learnings – None of my previous years saw as much of learning going in just one year.
Finished two neat diaries. – These notes are worth my life.
Sister’s marriage and Nandu’s raise as a designer.
Trip to Kerala and Tamil Nadu – The road trip on bike, will remain as one of the best.
Decision to stay Back in India and not to move anywhere else.
Few presentations – logging, MEID
Constant association with British Library
Regaining Fitnes. Not losing out on the work out front. It was tough keeping it up. But Managed.
Bangalore Bar Camp
A irvana annual day in the year end paid off. It was all the sweat up to the big day. Great lessons.
Away from Bangalore for few days.Spending Xmas holidays at Shimoga. My hometown.
Had a brief chance to visit Sahitya Sammelana. Literary event.
Been lazing at home flipping channels.Nothing special to scribble.
As usual my nose is running wet. I get sick.
Weather at Shimoga never suited me.
I hit a new shop at church street y’day evening. Magazines.
For a moment you’ll wonder if the world is really so very crazy about the magazines.
I never knew that Scientific American is available in Indian edition now.
But their online India edition is a letdown.
Grabbed Dec 2006 copy. Costs you 100 Rs.
Sadly we do not have a science magazine coming out of India.
Dont we have a sizeable audience here ?
I remember reading Science Reporter, during my student days.
Dont know if it exists now.
My list is growing
Businessworld,Frontline and now Scientific American India
I was reading Frontline magazine this morning. It carries an interview with ISRO chief. Madhavan Nair. It talks about India’s Chandrayana Mission of 2008.
Picked up few facts.
Distance between Earth and moon : 4 Lakh Kms.
Our geostationary satelites revolve at 36000 Kms…( roughly half a lakh)
In the picture, the observer is 350,000 miles away from the Earth and the Moon, which are 250,000 miles apart.
So, we know how to put an object at a distance of half a lakh kms. Putting something beyond this is a more challenging task.
When some one questioned ISRO’s plans to send a man into space…he says
“We must keep in mind that humankind has progressed only because it has taken up challenges. If Columbus had not ventured [across the Atlantic], today’s America would not have been there”
Read Frontline for more.
Let me list few reasons why the blog was out of action for two weeks:
It has been quite a eventful week
- Got couple of test plans to complete
- Meeting after meetings at office pushed me stay very late in office.
- Skit, Photo movie, Dance and Trivia Quiz preparations for Annual Day.
Company Annual day got over finally. So, bullet 3 is a completed task.
Got to work on unfinished part of first two.
It’s an awesome feeling that I could balance the extra-curriculars with the academics.
For this part ( Skit, Photo movie, quiz etc.), I should say I took the initiative. But there are people around with wonderful ideas to build on. Just like the web2.0 community.
Community, when channeled, is such a power house.
Look at sun and earth side by side….
How amazingly tiny this planet is.
The Sun’s mass is about 333,000 times Earth’s mass!!!
Even more amazing is…how is that we still haven’t found another ‘dot’ similar to planet earth which houses any living creatures!
I took a break. Probably it’s too much for two days.
I should keep things simple.
It’s impossible for one to know all that is happening around.
Just the idea of even knowing things from distance seems worthless.
ufff…you can never keep the pace with the growing amount of techism around.
Stick to your core.
i_know_u_well is discussing. 
i_know_u_well 4:25 PM on January 2, 2007 Permalink
yep .. nice look