Parallel Spirals

Standing on the shores of space-time…

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  • A Few Links…

    It’s really very funny experience if you want to blog about space. You love the subject. You can talk for hours, given the chance, but to write a good blog post will take you days and days.

    Well, all said and done, I have nothing useful to add today. Here are some links –

    1. India’s Chandrayaan-I project scheduled for departure on 30 March, 2008. Chandrayaan-II coming up in 2010.
    2. The recent testing of SRE and the launch of 3 sats together on the PSLV-C7.
    3.India’s best offering in terms of images of the Earth from  space – CARTOSAT-2.

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  • Yuri’s Night

    Well, some sort of order has been done. All the things that I wanted sorted are sort of, sorted.

    We’d like to hold an event called Yuri’s Night in India. Any ideas? Any thoughts?

    Yuri’s Night is an event held across the globe  to commemorate the first man in space – Yuri Gagarin. Any ideas, anyone ready to give us a place to do the event, that would be great.

  • Raindrops…

    Woke up to a strange morning and freakish weather. It’s raining here in the middle of February. An un-paralleled event?

  • Interesting Stuff from ISRO

    India has today announced the launching of its own navigation satellite system. The date for the launch of Chandrayaan-I has also been announced as 30 March, 2008. Mark the date in your calendars.

    There has also been talks of having a lunar lander by 2020. Interesting stuff coming from ISRO.

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  • Trying

    I’m now trying to get out of stuff and trying to get back in. That’s another way of telling that I’m trying to get organised. I’ve tried most of the famous methods of getting organised. They all fail. Teh-solutions don’t work since I’m not a techie. The latest I’ve tried is a TODO which also failed.

    In the end, I’ve decided to make my own organization technique. Mail me if you’re interested in helping me: prad2609@yahoo.com.

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  • Korolev’s Centenary Celebrations

    Note: I wrote this on my earlier blog hosted as https://blogs.seds.org/pradeep. I recovered the text from the WayBack Machine. This post appeared on February 08, 2007 as per the timestamp. I’m trying to collect here again all my old writings spread on various blogs.

    I attended the Korolev centenary celebrations yesterday. Started of like all Indian events do – with the lighting of the lamp. There was a photo exhibition that we walked through. Lot of cool pics – the early control rooms that the Soviet’s useds, their rockets, their launch pads and ofcourse, Korolev himself.

    A couple of lectures later, we had some Indian twist in the form of screening the SRE mission. I didn’t post about the SRE here.

    It happened on 22nd January, 2007. India tested its indigenously developed re-entry technology along with the launch of 4 satellites on board the PSLV-C7. SRE stands for Space Vehicle Re-entry Experiment. You’ll find a good deal more in the ISRO website.

    Well, the Korolev evening ended with Cocktails. Since, I don’t drink, I settled for a Coke. Well, had a good time.

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  • You know when you’re stressed when

    Want proof that I can’t blog? Here it is. Found this in the local paper. Felt emailing it would be a waste of email, so decided to post it here for all to see (is anyone seeing?).

    You Know You’re a victim of exam stress when:

    1. Random Shah Rukh Khan movies begin to look like top-class entertainment.
    2. Your favourite pastime is tearing up sheets of paper
    3. Your daily vocabulary is reduced to: crap, damn, hell, bloddy, goddamn.
    4. You shoot stapler pins all over the room just to see how far they go.
    5. You sit blankly at your table, staring at the same sheet of paper for half an hour.
    6. Your diet consists of 3 Cs: coffee, choclate and Crocin
    7. You pray for floods, heat strokes, strikes of teachers and the death of G. W. Bush; so that exams are postponed or cancelled.
    8. You read the “love messages” on the bottom panel of MTV to de-stress
    9. You do chapters that aren’t in the syllabus
    10. You find yourself incredibly fantasising about Goa and Lonavla
    11. Approximately four times a day, you feel like running away from home and selling coconuts in Kerala

    By Mudra Mehta of NM College, as published in JAM. Go there for more fun articles.

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  • Korolev’s Birth Centenary

    Note: I wrote this on my earlier blog hosted as https://blogs.seds.org/pradeep. I recovered the text from the WayBack Machine. This post appeared on February 05, 2007 as per the timestamp. I’m trying to collect here again all my old writings spread on various blogs.

    It’s a time for personal upheveal. I am not able to write anything in my main blog. But, have lots of work related to space.

    Coming up later this week, I’ve been invited to attend the birth centenary of Sergei Korolev. He’s the man responsible for the first satellite and the first man in space – Yuri Gagarin for which you guys get to party on Yuri’s Night.

    Let’s see how things go from there on.

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  • SEDS-Earth blogging

    EDS Earth, the international chapter of SEDS has decided to do a bit of an experiment. They’ve asked people from 5 chapters (initially) to write a blog post every week. We haven’t tried such a thing yet. Let’s see how it works. Want to know where the SEDS blog is? Here it is – http://blogs.seds.org/sedsearth.

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  • Ideas Welcome

    I have been trying over last week to get out of books of philosophy and religion.I tried reading books by Stephen King et. all but no use, at least till now. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.

    I went to the IIT Techfest 2007. With their money, I could’ve done better. But, that’s just selfish me getting all envious and jealous.Will try to blog more over this week, if possible.

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