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Why the Recent Asteroid Impact news can't be Ignored?

Asteroid, small bodies that wander the infinite space.
Well the recent news of a big asteroid that was on near collision with the earth is a big surprise.
And why this news cannot be ignored!

First of all the discovery time of asteroid was too short.

• The asteroid was spotted just 4 days before it crossed its nearest earth point!!
• Secondly due to such a short notice the size was estimation was wrong and the asteroid was twice as large!! 

In order to prevent a asteroid from colliding with earth we should have early knowledge and probably years before collision to prepare an impact avoidance strategy. 

Had this asteroid collided with earth a large amount of human race would have been wiped out and earth atmosphere would have been affected so bad that nothing would thrive for at least next 100 years

Asteroid are know to have caused mass extinctions on earth.

After the impact takes place large amount dust will spread in to atmosphere which will reduce the amount of sunlight reaching earth. this will result in a cold atmosphere on earth known as impact winter causing
massive damage to both biosphere and humans alike.


When a impact with earth occurs , the amount of damage depends upon the size as well as the speed of the asteroid.
So comets which have high speed can cause more damage than a relatively bigger asteroid.

The most devastation extinction was caused by the asteroid at Chicxulub in Mexico that was 10km in diameter and caused a impact crater of 180 km diameter and is thought to be the main reason for dinosaur extinction. 

One of the best know recent event of asteroid impact is the Tunguska event in Russia in 1908. In this event a large asteroid burst just 6-9 km above earth surface causing the wiping of a thousand of km of forest and if it had occurred over a city it would have destroyed the entire city.

Although this time we have been saved next time we wont be so lucky, so we should devise a strategy and be completley ready to avoid a human extinction event.

Mantralaya , State's Most Important Building Under Fire

Mantralaya the iconic building in Mumbai was under fire on Thursday which is major news relating to security and disaster management in such high valued government buildings.
Also a lot of conspiracy theories have popped up which point to starting fire in order to destroy important papers or to hand over building development to private builders.
Many conspiracy theorist suggest that fire may been started to destroy documents relating to Adarsh scam in which many high profile minister were accused.

A lot of important documents have been burned in the fire. Government was in the process of digitising documents, but as with majority of government work, the process was slow and hence digitization couldn't be completed in time.

This fire in such an important building shows the mess in the disaster management of major govt institution .The fire brigade had problem to douse the fire because of the cars parked in the vicinity.

Chagan Bhujbal has said that it will take three months for the building to be fully operational. Fire Proof plywood and other high quality materials will be used to do the renovation work so to avoid disasters in future. "The proposal on installing fire sprinklers was ready and awaiting a sanction for Rs. 10 crore," he said. had the fire sprinkler been installed the fire would have caused less damage.

As of now to resume work Gt Hospital and MTNL office would be used by Mantralaya officials.

A Crime branch probe has been ordered in to the incident. As of now the Police will check the CCTV footage and interrogate the witness who saw the inferno to determine the cause.
Short circuit in the server room is thought to be the cause of the fire but only after the full investigation will the government issue the cause of fire.

How Petrol Price rise has made Auto Rickshaw more preffered than B.E.S.T. Bus

Oil Price rise is a issue that affects everything and everyone. Recent increase in  Petrol price in India has made everything costlier.


Increase in fuel price increase cost everywhere from industry ,transportation ,travelling, food, and commodity price rise. In other words it affects each and every sphere of our life. 

In Mumbai majority of commuters use Local trains for transport majorly for long distance travel.
Second option is the B.E.S.T. bus.
And for quick and comfortable travel people prefer auto rickshaw.

Due to the massive price rise in petrol, price of B.E.S.T. and rickshaw commute has gone up.
But since the recent B.E.S.T. price rise is steep, I think now rickshaw is a better transport than Bus.

China, The Future Space Leader?

Space is a entity that every country dreams to capture. Majority of them do it for military purposes. Launching Military satellites and communications satellite becomes the first step and then comes near space and further space missions

Currently only USA can be considered as a Space power having developed its space technology a lot and only one to send man on moon. Although NASA ambition may be marred by recent cuts to it and no space shuttle to fly currently , but it has included private players to cope with it.{See : SpaceX}

China the new economic power seems to also bear the ambitious of becoming a major space power. China had done an unmanned space docking recently which was a major success to its ambition of making its own space station and becoming a more sophisticated player in space race

1st Chinese Woman in Space

China few days back launched its first women into orbit making it a monumental event for the country. This is  a big achievement for China National Space Administration (CNSA). Liu Wang  along with two other astronaut has been included in the Shenzhou-9 which is a

Why Investing in Kamothe is a Good Decision

On  last Saturday I went to Mansarovar to get the rent from my room in Kamothe. As it is June black clouds surrounded the sky making the atmosphere cool. I was waiting on Mansarovar Station for my cousin as he was coming by train.  As I was waiting on the platform I was enjoying the cool breeze coming from the undeveloped scenic mountain side of the platform. Workers were covering the newly installed train Indicators with Plastic to prevent them from damaging in rain.

Kamothe can be seen both as Investment Opportunity as Well as Good place to Stay. I had purchased a flat in Kamothe in Jan 2010 at Rs. 2400 psft. and if current pricing is seen I am in Profit!

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Nokia : A Sinking Ship

Nokia, the name synonymous with mobile phones and the worlds largest cellphone vendor of cellphone from 1998 to 2012. Nokia's reign at the topmost position for 14 years was recently snacthed by Samsung. Samsung a underdog earlier became the worlds largest cellphone vendor with the help of Android.

LinkedIn's more than 6 million Passwords Breached

Last major hack that I remember was that of PlayStation hack in which accounts of over 77 million users were compromised. Also credit card data was stolen. Sony shut down is network as a precaution to investigate the attack, this also caused major disappointment among its PlayStation gamers base.

Recent attack on Linked in is as a major security disaster.

Safe House 2012 Movie Review

Tobin Frost:
They're going to put their arm around you and tell you things like, 
"You did a decent job, son. We'll take it from here." 
That's when you know you're screwed.

Safe House directed by Daniel Espinosa shows a low level CIA Agent  agent Matthew Weston (  Ryan Reynolds ) trying to take custody of another dangerous ex-CIA agent Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington ) in Cape Town South Africa.

Weston is assigned a job of staying undercover and operating a safe house in Cape Town by the CIA.
Weston becomes restless as there is no activity since a year.

Use CCleaner to Clean your Computer

Using computer constantly results in a creation of large number of unwanted temporary files. These files take up space on our hard disk and many of these are present in location that we cannot remove or manual removal may lead to instability by accidentally  removing useful system files

That's where CCleaner comes in to play

CCleaner developed by Piriform can be used to remove these temporary files.

Eagerly Waiting for Mumbai Monsoon

I do like summer season but recently the summers are getting hotter and hotter and that really makes me go crazy! And this summer we also had the water cuts for one day ( ya in Mumbai!!). So this time i am waiting badly for the rains.
And after such a hot summer who wouldn't want to get wet in the rains.

Software Project Management May 2012 Question Paper

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Web Shifting to .anyDomainName

When I was first introduced to Internet in 2004, Computers meant Microsoft Windows and only way to open a webpage was by using Internet Explorer. IE was the default browser that came bundled with Windows. To Open a webpage in IE we had to type the enitre name of the site as it is (just like coding) for eg www.yahoo.com. Any mistake in the url could lead you to a page not found exception. This process also required us to remember complex names like www.mazagondock.gov.in

As I became for more accomplished with Internet it became easy to directly type the site name in Google search bar as Google returned appropriate serach result to the site (Also since google.com used to be the homepage in many cases!). Also as browsers developed modern browser offered the simplicity of enitering  the name in the OMNIBAR (Search  + Address bar ) which offered suggestion as typed and hence you could directly end up on the correct site. Hence the need to remember complex domain names was gone.

Currently we just have majority URL ending in .com or .org or a country specific URL extension like .in for India. But this is going to change and web will be flooded with new domain names.

ICANN will allow companies and organisation to choose any top level domain names they like. Currently only 22 top level domain (TLD) are available which include .com, .org, .net. After  new gTLDs (Generic TLD) come in we will be able to have sites like www.myProduct.myCompanyName . Also these top level domain names can include any characters ie. regional characters will also be allowed making the site name more effective and more close to its real intention.

This will allow companies to increase their brand value on the Internet. As a company can have many products which may not have relation with each other it becomes imperative to have a website for each product. 

Companies can now purchase a TLD and then create website that will have the company name as their extension. This will allow different products to have different website but still be linked to the owner company by its URL extension! This will allow the company to associate  product and its brand name to be in customers memory just by its URL.

Google has applied for 50 TLD according to its official Google Blog which includes .google .youtube and .lol !! domains

UPDATED IMAGE TUTORIAL Hiding Files and Folders in Nokia X200 or any Nokia S40 phone

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Game Architecture and Programming May 2012 Question Paper

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Information Storage Management and Disaster Recovery MAY 2012 Question Paper

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ISMDR MAY 2012