Saturday, 24 Jul 2010

41 years since man set his foot on MOON - photos,videos

On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. ET, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off the "Eagle" onto the surface of the moon and said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." 

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Date: 24 Jul 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Science, International Happenings / Views: 74/Rating:0

Tirumala temple going greener way - uses solar and wind power

Tirumala Tirupati  temple the abode of Lord Venkateswara is going the greener way . The temple is very famous pilgrimage place of India situated on a hill top (Venkatachalam) in Andhra Pradesh State and is visited on an average by 50,000 pilgrims daily. Given the mammoth number of pilgrims visiting and staying there, power requirement is high. There are many restaurants, cottages , hotels, rest rooms etc.  It is almost like a small city ruled by the Lord . May be due to the power and influence of God or something else the adaption of green technologies is praise worthy on the temple hill unlike the slower tendency for non- conventional sources of energy in the rest of the  country.From gardening to cooking, only non-conventional sources of energy are now being used in the temples of Tirupati.

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Date: 24 Jul 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Tirupati, Energy / Views: 76/Rating:0

Thursday, 15 Jul 2010

Indian Currency gets distinct symbol - But how to type?

The Indian rupee will soon have a unique symbol — a blend of the Devanagri 'Ra' and Roman 'R' — joining elite currencies like the US dollar, euro, British pound and Japanese yen in having a distinct identity. 

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Date: 15 Jul 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India / Views: 109/Rating:0

Monday, 12 Jul 2010

PSLV launch successful - puts five satellites in orbit

PSLV proved it again .The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C-15 carrying remote sensing Cartosat-2B along with four satellites blasted off from the spaceport near here on Monday morning...  

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Date: 12 Jul 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 186/Rating:0

Saturday, 10 Jul 2010

Launch of PSLV-C15 with CARTOSAT-2B and student satellites scheduled on July 12

PSLV-C15 is the 17th flight of  ISRO's versatile Polar Satellite launch vehicle, PSLV. In this PSLV will place the 694 kg CARTOSAT-2B and four auxiliary payloads in a 630 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) . ISRO recently announced that the schedule launch of PSLV-C15 will be on 12th july. ..

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Date: 10 Jul 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: India Space / Views: 199/Rating:0 / Comments: 1

Friday, 25 Jun 2010

150 milion copies of windows 7 sold- windows live essentials beta debutes

Bill Gates must have been thinking that why Windows latest version wasn't beennamed  windows 8 or 10 -  as microsoft says officially that Windows '7' sells '7' copies per second (hope you got the pun I am trying to make ) .

In a official windows blog post it was announced that Windows 7 has sold 150 million licenses to-date which works out to be seven per second.Windows 7 is by far the “fastest selling operating system in history,” according to Microsoft. Microsoft estimates that 75 percent of enterprises are currently evaluating Windows 7. Any guesses on how fast we get to 300 million copies sold?

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Date: 25 Jun 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Technical News, Internet News / Views: 164/Rating:0

Tuesday, 22 Jun 2010

A Very Informative Video on Black Holes- The Other side of Infinity

See the giant-screen version at the DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE or the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Narrated by Academy-Award nominated actor Liam Neeson.

Can you feel the pull? This cutting-edge production features high-resolution visualizations of black holes and other cosmic phenomena based on data generated by telescope observations and ultra-high end computer simulations.

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Date: 22 Jun 2010 , Author: dilip / Category: Videos, Science / Views: 233/Rating:0

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