Wish U all a very happy and prosperous new year 2010
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year 2010
Wish U all a very happy and prosperous new year 2010
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Neelathamara
Neela Thamara was earlier directed by Yusaf Ali Kechery in 1979.
Renowned Malayalam author, scriptwriter and director M.T. Vasudevan Nair is rewriting the old script of Neela Thamara to suit with changes occurred in the world in 30 years
The new version of Neelathamara will be produced by G. Suresh Kumar under the banner of Revathy Kalamandhir.
Vidya Sagar is doing the music for the film
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Pazhassiraja -New Era in Indian Cinema From Malayalees
Pazhassi Raja releasing on Friday, October 15 in Kerala.
Script : M.T Vasudevan Nair
Director : Hariharan
Producer : Gokulam Gopalan
Music : Ilayaraja
Sound Editing: Rasool Pookutti
The film has Mammootty in the lead role along with Sarath Kumar, who plays the role of his trusted commander-in-chief, Manoj.K Jayan, Kalabhavan Mani, Suman, Kaniha and Padmapriya.
Tells the story of the Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, popularly known as the Lion of Kerala, hailed from Padinjare Kovilakam and was the king of the Kottayam Royal family (near Thalassery, Kannur district) of Malabar region in Kerala, India during the last decades of the 18th century.[1]
He achieved the title Veera (brave) when he fought a guerilla war against British occupation[2] with the able help of his loyal Kurichiyar tribe.
Friday, September 25, 2009
india over the moon with water discovery +Nasa Thanks India
India on Friday hailed the discovery of water on the moon as a triumph for its lunar programme as the country aims to cement its reputation as a serious player in the space industry.
The mood among India's space scientists has gone from disappointment last month when its Chandrayaan-1 satellite mission was prematurely aborted to jubilation with news of a major discovery made in partnership with NASA.
"India should be proud that Chandrayaan discovered water on the moon," said a smiling G. Madhavan Nair, chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), at a press conference to discuss the findings.
"For the first time in the history of space research, water is confirmed on the moon. It is acknowledged the world over that this is a real discovery and a path-breaking event for the Indian space agency," he added.
In one of the three papers published in the latest edition of the journal Science on Thursday, researchers said they had analysed light waves detected by NASA-made instruments on board the Indian satellite and two other US probes.
The reflected light waves showed a chemical bond between oxygen and hydrogen -- proof, the researchers said, of the existence of water on the moon's surface.
Until now, scientists had advanced the theory that, except for the possibility of ice at the bottom of craters, the moon was totally dry.
There could also be more to come from India's space agency once massive amounts of data beamed back to the national space centre in Bangalore are analysed, Nair added.
"There could be much more interesting facts. We will talk about all of it once we have concrete data analysis report," he said of the data which "has filled the computers in ISRO as well in NASA".
India launched Chandrayaan and fired a probe onto the moon's surface late last year in an event that the national space agency hoped would bring it international recognition.
The probe's landing vaulted India into the league of space-faring nations led by the United States and regional neighbours Russia, China and Japan, and was seen as a symbolic and proud moment in the country's development.
But there was disappointment last month when Chandrayaan lost contact with its controllers and the mission was aborted only 10 months into a planned two years.
Nair said India's Moon Impact Probe "had picked up strong signals of water particles" which were corroborated by data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scanners.
Indian newspapers headlined their front pages with news of the discovery on Friday and cable television included discussions of the event marked by thinly disguised patriotic fervour.
"One Big Step For India, A Giant Leap for Mankind," said The Times of India. "Water on moon: Chandrayaan's stunning find," headlined the Hindustan Times.
The mission cost 80 million dollars, less than half the amount spent on similar expeditions by other countries, and India is keen to use its cost advantage to capture a large slice of the satellite business.
The euphoria over Chandrayaan came on top of celebrations over India's successful launch Wednesday of seven satellites -- six of them foreign -- in a single mission.
India began its space programme in 1963, developing its own satellites and launch vehicles to cut dependence on overseas agencies.
The latest discovery was made possible by US-made technology, however.
The NASA-developed "Moon Mineralogy Mapper", or M3, is a high-tech scanner that tracks the reflection of sunlight off the moon's surface to determine soil composition.
The new research used input from two other probes equipped with M3-type instruments, which also detected the chemical signature for the presence of water.
The American spacecraft Cassini passed near the moon a decade ago on its way to Saturn, while a third probe, also American, called Deep Impact, passed near the moon in 2005 to gather data with an instrument similar to M3.
The new data came just two weeks before a NASA probe is to crash into the surface near the moon's southern pole to see if water can be detected in the dust and debris released by the impact.
The mood among India's space scientists has gone from disappointment last month when its Chandrayaan-1 satellite mission was prematurely aborted to jubilation with news of a major discovery made in partnership with NASA.
"India should be proud that Chandrayaan discovered water on the moon," said a smiling G. Madhavan Nair, chief of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), at a press conference to discuss the findings.
"For the first time in the history of space research, water is confirmed on the moon. It is acknowledged the world over that this is a real discovery and a path-breaking event for the Indian space agency," he added.
In one of the three papers published in the latest edition of the journal Science on Thursday, researchers said they had analysed light waves detected by NASA-made instruments on board the Indian satellite and two other US probes.
The reflected light waves showed a chemical bond between oxygen and hydrogen -- proof, the researchers said, of the existence of water on the moon's surface.
Until now, scientists had advanced the theory that, except for the possibility of ice at the bottom of craters, the moon was totally dry.
There could also be more to come from India's space agency once massive amounts of data beamed back to the national space centre in Bangalore are analysed, Nair added.
"There could be much more interesting facts. We will talk about all of it once we have concrete data analysis report," he said of the data which "has filled the computers in ISRO as well in NASA".
India launched Chandrayaan and fired a probe onto the moon's surface late last year in an event that the national space agency hoped would bring it international recognition.
The probe's landing vaulted India into the league of space-faring nations led by the United States and regional neighbours Russia, China and Japan, and was seen as a symbolic and proud moment in the country's development.
But there was disappointment last month when Chandrayaan lost contact with its controllers and the mission was aborted only 10 months into a planned two years.
Nair said India's Moon Impact Probe "had picked up strong signals of water particles" which were corroborated by data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scanners.
Indian newspapers headlined their front pages with news of the discovery on Friday and cable television included discussions of the event marked by thinly disguised patriotic fervour.
"One Big Step For India, A Giant Leap for Mankind," said The Times of India. "Water on moon: Chandrayaan's stunning find," headlined the Hindustan Times.
The mission cost 80 million dollars, less than half the amount spent on similar expeditions by other countries, and India is keen to use its cost advantage to capture a large slice of the satellite business.
The euphoria over Chandrayaan came on top of celebrations over India's successful launch Wednesday of seven satellites -- six of them foreign -- in a single mission.
India began its space programme in 1963, developing its own satellites and launch vehicles to cut dependence on overseas agencies.
The latest discovery was made possible by US-made technology, however.
The NASA-developed "Moon Mineralogy Mapper", or M3, is a high-tech scanner that tracks the reflection of sunlight off the moon's surface to determine soil composition.
The new research used input from two other probes equipped with M3-type instruments, which also detected the chemical signature for the presence of water.
The American spacecraft Cassini passed near the moon a decade ago on its way to Saturn, while a third probe, also American, called Deep Impact, passed near the moon in 2005 to gather data with an instrument similar to M3.
The new data came just two weeks before a NASA probe is to crash into the surface near the moon's southern pole to see if water can be detected in the dust and debris released by the impact.
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
February 7
February 7 ---------- My Birthday
On This Day In Science - February 7
1824 - William Huggins was born. Huggins was an English astronomer who first determined the chemical components of stars via spectroscopy.
1863 - John Newlands published his "Law of Octaves" where he organized the known elements by increasing atomic weights and noticing chemical properties repeated themselves every eight elements. The English Chemical Society did not recognize his work and did not publish his work. Mendeleev would independently create his own periodic table following the same ideas four years later.
1897 - Galileo Ferraris died. Ferraris is known for his work on rotary magnetic fields and published the design for his alternating current motor the same year Tesla gained a US patent for a AC motor.
1905 - Ulf von Euler was born. Euler would share the 1970 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Bernard Katz and Julius Axelrod for their work with neural transmitters.
1918 - Ruth Sager was born. Sager was a pioneer in cytoplasmic genetics. Her later career was with the genetics of cancer tumors and suppressor genes.
1926 - Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov was born. Feoktistov was a Soviet cosmonaut/engineer who worked part of the team who designed Sputnik, Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft. He would go on to head the design team which designed the Salyut and Mir space stations.
1960 - Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov died. Kurchatov would lead in Soviet nuclear research producing among many firsts as the first Soviet atomic weapon and the first atomic power plant.
1984 - Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person to spacewalk untethered to a ship.
2007 - Alan MacDiarmid died. MacDiarmid, Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa were awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of conductive polymers.
On This Day In Science - February 7
1824 - William Huggins was born. Huggins was an English astronomer who first determined the chemical components of stars via spectroscopy.
1863 - John Newlands published his "Law of Octaves" where he organized the known elements by increasing atomic weights and noticing chemical properties repeated themselves every eight elements. The English Chemical Society did not recognize his work and did not publish his work. Mendeleev would independently create his own periodic table following the same ideas four years later.
1897 - Galileo Ferraris died. Ferraris is known for his work on rotary magnetic fields and published the design for his alternating current motor the same year Tesla gained a US patent for a AC motor.
1905 - Ulf von Euler was born. Euler would share the 1970 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Bernard Katz and Julius Axelrod for their work with neural transmitters.
1918 - Ruth Sager was born. Sager was a pioneer in cytoplasmic genetics. Her later career was with the genetics of cancer tumors and suppressor genes.
1926 - Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov was born. Feoktistov was a Soviet cosmonaut/engineer who worked part of the team who designed Sputnik, Vostok, Voskhod and Soyuz spacecraft. He would go on to head the design team which designed the Salyut and Mir space stations.
1960 - Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov died. Kurchatov would lead in Soviet nuclear research producing among many firsts as the first Soviet atomic weapon and the first atomic power plant.
1984 - Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person to spacewalk untethered to a ship.
2007 - Alan MacDiarmid died. MacDiarmid, Alan Heeger and Hideki Shirakawa were awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of conductive polymers.
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