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Mathematics of life

on November 20, 2010

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on November 13, 2010

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Aero India 2011 (Bangalore)

Pics from India 2011 at Bangalore (Fe b 12, 2011) Yelahanka Air Force Station Click on the pictures for larger images Surya Kiran Three Surya Kirans lined for take off Surya Kirans in action Surya Kiran's Inverted Solo Surya Kiran - Landing Tejas taking off Tejas in action Tejas and IJT in the same frame Su 30 MKI (Flanker) Su 30 MKI Taking off Su 30 MKI (low speed) Other IAF Aircraft Illyushin Il 76 Mi 17 Chopper Another chopper with daredevil commandos The foreign aircraft SAAB 2000 Rafale Rafale taking off Gripen F18 Super Hornet F16 (Two Seater ) F16 (Single Seater ) Eurofighter (Typhoon) Eurofighter (Typhoon) Flying Bulls Aerobatic Team from Czech Republic led by 62 year old Radka Machova

Saviour in the snow

“This 4x4 is equipped with snow chains, it will drop you outside the resort, then we will have another 4x4 which will take you up to Dhalli and from there on an Innova will drop you to Chandigarh .”, the hotel staff told us. It was very reassuring. They know their job, I thought. It was snowing heavily, and how!! Not sure if there is any “cats and dogs” equivalent for snow, but whatever it was, it was significantly worse than “cats and dogs”. Our flight was scheduled for 7.05 pm; so, we left the resort at 11.10 am. Given that the trip to the hotel had taken us 4 hours we had sufficient buffer for the return, or so we thought. The two changeovers were done smoothly and we were finally in the Innova. The driver was familiar to us as he has driven us around two days earlier. So, we settled down for a long ride to the airport. The snowfall was however getting worse. The scenery was soon painted in white, “whitewashed” to be precise. The driver seemed to g...

Mathematics of life

Conroy walked up to Nestor with a big smile on his face and proclaimed that he had deduced the formula of life. Nestor who was busy working refused to look up. Barely able to contain his enthusiasm, Conroy sat in the chair facing Nestor and picked up a piece of paper from his desk. Conroy saw that there was a name and number written on it so he turned it over, scribbled something down and slid the paper across the desk to Nestor. It read: Life = ∑(m1, m2,m3 …mx) Where mx = ((Sx+Ex+Lx) * Ix) Nestor clearly wasn’t interested and he shot the piece paper off his desk wi...

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