YNZi Blog

With all the data of the world available at your fingertips, it is exciting what kind, rather to what extent, we can analyze the same. When the whole world blogs, you could actually ask the world - “How do you feel?” and it could actually give you an answer. No kidding…check this out…

With the election fever on the rise in US, we could actually tell who has more chances of winning based on the macros - try this link - http://www.google.com/trends?q=mccain,+obama&date=mtd&geo=all&ctab=0&sort=0&sa=N

Cheers!

Nasa has always been a great source of inspiration to me. What they do at Nasa always amazes me. Years back I read about this project of Nasa called ‘Deep Impact’. 

Explaining this project in layman’s term just imagine this - Mission: To study what a comet is made up of.

So what I do is send a 1,000 kg spacecraft in space. This spacecraft travels more than the distance to the sun and accurately aligns itself on the path of the comet.

Few hours before the impact time with the comet, the spacecraft separates from itself a 350kg impactor which acurately maneuvers itself to the path of the comet such that it may hit it. The spacecraft meanwhile positions itself some 500kms away from the collision point so that it can study the impact and send earthlings some interesting data to play with.

The impactor successfully hits the comet at a speed of about 10km/sec. It take pictures and transmits them to the spacecraft during its thrilling descent. The spacecraft then does its work, sends all the data back to earth. And after a successful mission this spacecraft is on its way to study another comet…. Are they crazy or what!

And then I think about these little projects I am working on… and true, I do get the perspective.

It is amazing how small a world we live in in this world of google. A month or so back while playing with google gadgets I published few gadgets to get a feel of how its subscriber base grows.

This image is a snapshot of its spread around the world in this short span.

Naturally there is much we can do and do differently in this global village we have come to live in.

This is my very first blog and my very first post therein.

I would like to start with publishing this poem I wrote many years back. This poem has always been an inspiration for me. Haven’t found its perfect title yet though. Let me know how you like it. And suggest a good title for it as well!

Have fun!