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Joke of the Day… ” You are addicted to Internet when you…” !!!

December 19, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

You Know you are Addicted to the Internet When…

· You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved, and you don’t have a clue when it happened.

· Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.

· All of your friends have an @ in their names.

· Your dog has its own home page.

· You can’t call your mother… she doesn’t have a modem.

· You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

· You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built-in keyboard and mouse.

· You get a new suit that says, “This best viewed with Netscape 4.01 or higher.”

· The last girl you asked out was only a jpeg.

· Your wife says communication is important in a marriage… so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.

SOURCE:::: joke a day.com

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This Day In Space Science… Establishment of NASA Ames on 20 Dec 1939…

December 19, 2014Natarajan1 Comment

75th Anniversary of NASA Ames

December 20, 2014 marks NASA Ames Research Center’s 75th Anniversary. The center was established in 1939 as the second laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and was named for the chair of the NACA, Joseph S. Ames. It was located at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California, now at the heart of Silicon Valley. The Laboratory was renamed the NASA Ames Research Center with the formation of NASA in 1958.

This June 2, 1943 photograph shows the construction of the Ames full-scale 40- by 80-foot wind tunnel, with a side view of the entrance cone and a blimp in the background.

Image Credit: NASA

SOURCE::::www.nasa.gov

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Image of the Day…Ice Berg in South Atlantic !!!

December 19, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Big iceberg in South Atlantic

Satellites have detected an iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic Ocean. It’s big … but doesn’t meet the criteria for tracking or naming.

On December 3, 2014, satellite images revealed a large iceberg – measuring about 165 square kilometers (64 square miles) – east of the southern tip of South America in the South Atlantic Ocean. This iceberg doesn’t meet the criteria for tracking or naming. NASA Earth Observatory said:

Only icebergs that have a side measuring at least 19 kilometers (12 miles) long are named and tracked by the U.S. National Ice Center. That means nearly round or square icebergs—like the one pictured above—can be quite large and still not meet the criteria for naming and tracking.

But it’s still a big iceberg and so interesting. Icebergs such as this one break off from Antarctica, but scientists aren’t sure exactly where on the continent this one broke away.

In that way, it’s different from iceberg B31, a much bigger iceberg, which broke away from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier in late 2013 and has been hugging the Antarctic continent since then. B31 is a whopping 240 square miles (over 600 square kilometers). NASA recentlyre-acquired it via satellite, and, although B31 does meet the criteria for tracking and naming, for now it remains in the Amundsen Sea near Antarctica, although free now of surrounding debris and sea ice.

Large icebergs like these pose a danger to ships. For example, in 2007, the MS Explorer, a small Canadian cruise ship, sank after striking an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.

Bottom line: Early December 2014 images of the large, nearly circular iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic Ocean. It’s big – 165 square kilometers (64 square miles) – but doesn’t meet the criteria for tracking or naming.

SOURCE:::: http://www.earthsky.org

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Out on 99 …But 100 in Second Innings … !!!

December 19, 2014December 19, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

India opener Murali Vijay avoids a high ball during Day 1 of the second Test against Australia at the Gabba. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

How often do we see a batsman get out on 99 and score a hundred in his next innings in Test cricket?

Murali Vijay is only the eighth batsman (on the ninth occasion) to do so. Rajneesh Gupta provides the details.

Murali Vijay carried his sublime form into the Brisbane Test. He was unfortunate to miss out on a well-deserved hundred at Adelaide, falling short by just one run. He, however, made amends by reaching the three-figure mark on the opening day of the second Test against Australia at the Gabba on Wednesday.

Scorecard

How often do we see a batsman get out on 99 and score a hundred in his next innings in Test cricket?

Photos from Gabba Test, Day 1

India opener Vijay is only the eighth batsman (on the ninth occasion) to do so.

Interestingly, four of the eight batsmen are Indians, Sourav Ganguly being the only one to do so more than once.

The details:

Batsmen getting out on 99 and scoring a hundred in next innings

Batsman	Score	Opponent	Venue	Year
Geoff Boycott (Eng)	99	West Indies	Port-of-Spain	1974
	112	West Indies	Port-of-Spain	1974
Richie Richardson (WI)	99	India	Port-of-Spain	1989
	156	India	Kingston	1989
Michael Slater (Aus)	99	New Zealand	Perth	1993
	168	New Zealand	Hobart	1993
Sourav Ganguly (Ind)	99	Sri Lanka	Nagpur	1997
	173	Sri Lanka	Mumbai WS	1997
Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak)	99	Sri Lanka	Lahore	2002
	329	New Zealand	Lahore	2002
Sourav Ganguly (Ind)	99	England	Nottingham	2002
	128	England	Leeds	2002
Virender Sehwag (Ind)	99	Sri Lanka	Colombo SSC	2010
	109	Sri Lanka	Colombo PSS	2010
MS Dhoni (Ind)	99	England	Nagpur	2012
	224	Australia	Chennai	2013
Murali Vijay (Ind)	99	Australia	Adelaide	2014
	144	Australia	Brisbane	2014

Note: Ganguly had a sequence of 109, 99 and 173 in 1997.

Inzamam did so against different opponents at the same ground.

Boycott remains the only batsman to score a hundred after a 99 in the same Test.

Vijay is the first opening batsman from a visiting side to score a hundred on the first day of a Test at Brisbane.

The previous best was a paltry 83 by West Indian Joey Carew in 1968.

His 144 is now the fourth highest by a visiting opening batsman on the first day of any Test in Australia.

Former teammate Virender Sehwag tops the list.

The details:

Most runs by an opening batsman on first day of a Test vs Australia in Australia

Runs	Batsman	For	Venue	Season
195	Virender Sehwag	Ind	Melbourne	2003-04
185	’Bill’ Barber	Eng	Sydney	1965-66
177	Michael Vaughan	Eng	Adelaide	2002-03
144	Murali Vijay	Ind	Brisbane	2014-15
141	Herbert Sutcliffe	Eng	Melbourne	1924-25

Vijay is only the sixth Indian batsman to score a hundred on the opening day of a Test in Australia. The complete list:

Most runs by an Indian batsman on opening day of a Test in Australia

Runs	Batsman	Venue	Season
195	Virender Sehwag	Melbourne	2003-04
144	Murali Vijay	Brisbane	2014-15
132	Sunil Gavaskar	Sydney	1985-86
124	Sachin Tendulkar	Adelaide	2007-08
116	Krish Srikkanth	Sydney	1985-86
114	Gundappa Viswanath	Melbourne	1980-81

-RAJNEESH GUPTA

Rajneesh Gupta

Related News: Murali Vijay, Australia, New Zealand, Geoff Boycott, RAJNEESH GUPTA

SOURCE:::: http://www.rediff.com

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Interesting Facts about ISRO’s Largest Rocket…GSLV Mark III…!!!

December 19, 2014December 19, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Image: GSLV Mark III on the night ahead of its launch at Sriharikota, near Chennai. Photograph: ISRO/Twitter

The successful launch of GSLV Mark III makes ISRO self reliant in launching heavier communication satellites

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday launched its first experimental suborbital flight.

This was the test launch for ISRO heaviest and upgraded rocket, the GSLV Mark III, which is carrying the Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment (CARE).

The flight took off from ISRO’s space station Sriharikota, near Chennai. Here are five things you need to know about the GSLV Mark III mission.

1) After its successful Mars mission, this is ISRO’s next step to put a man in space.

2) The Rs 155 crore mission has twin purposes — the main purpose is to test the rocket’s atmospheric flight stability with around 4-tonne luggage. The second is to study the re-entry characteristics of the crew module called Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment.

3) Other critical technologies are also to be developed for ISRO’s manned mission. These are being developed parallelly at other centres. But recovery of the capsule from out of atmosphere will be the first to be tested.

4) GSLV Mark III is the heaviest next generation rocket, conceived and designed to make ISRO self reliant in launching heavier communication satellites of INSAT-4 class, which weigh 4,500 to 5,000 kg. Once operational, this rocket will have the capability to ferry four-tonne class of Insat series of communication satellites, which are currently being launched through Arianespace.

5) This is the second mission of the GSLV rocket during the last four years after two such launches failed in 2010.

SOURCE::::www.rediff.com

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Message For the Day…” How to Train and Command Your Senses…” ?

December 19, 2014December 19, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Generally people get drawn to sense objects, for they are victims of instincts. And instincts come along with the body and aren’t derived by any training. The infant seeks milk from the mother, no training is needed for this. However for the infant to walk and talk, some training is necessary, because these actions are not automatic but are socially prompted, by example and by imitation of others. Training is essential even for the proper pursuit of sense pleasure, for it is the wild and untrained search for such pleasure that promotes anger, hatred, envy, malice, and conceit. To train the senses along salutary lines and to hold them under control, certain good disciplines like repetition of the name, meditation, fasts, worship at dawn and dusk, etc. are essential. When one is asked to do such spiritual acts, one has no inner prompting at all. Still, one shouldn’t give up in despair. No one has a taste for such practices from the very beginning, but constant practice creates the zest.

Hot Seat Contestant Turns “Dumbest Millionaire” In a Show !!!

December 18, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Burger Ring Question
Australia’s Dumbest Millionaire Contestant
EPIC GAME SHOW FAIL
Hot Seat contestant loses on first and easiest question
THOSE playing along at home while watching popular game show Hot Seat were left wondering how the first contestant got her answer so wrong on Tuesday night.

SOURCE:::: http://www.You Tube.com

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” My Computer ” …A jOKE !!!

December 18, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

Help-desk guy speaking to a lady user
Help-desk : double click on My Computer.
Lady : I can’t see your computer..
Help-desk : No .. Click on My Computer on your computer.
Lady : How the hell can I click on your computer from my computer ??? !!
Help-desk : There is an icon labelled My Computer on your computer .. double click on it.
Lady : What the hell is your computer doing on my computer ?

SOURCE::: http://www.siliconindia.com

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Joke of the Day….New app.. Called ” Darr”…!!!

December 18, 2014NatarajanLeave a comment

After massive demands from all husbands……….

A new app called
“Darr” !!!
is launched for smart phones..

You just say…..
‘Wife’..
and it closes all websites,
hides all chats,
hide all special folders and best of all.
puts your wife’s photograph
as a wallpaper.

SOURCE:::: http://www.silicon india.com

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On the Lighter Side…’ If Gods were in IT Field….” !!!

December 18, 2014Natarajan1 Comment

Brahma: System installer

Vishnu: System operator

Shiva: System programmer

Narad: Data Transmitter

Yama: Deleter

Apsara & Rambha: Virus

Ganapati: Anti virus

Hanuman: E-Mail

Chitragupta: Hard Disc

Saraswati: Internet explorer

Parvati: Mother Board

Lakshmi: ATM

SOURCE:::: http://www.siliconindia.com

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