Effortless and effervescent, the kids climbed the few remaining rocks to the summit. The soaring eagles always fascinated one of them, for the views were always breathtaking, but how much better it would be, if he were the eagle! There was an unwarranted freedom about flight that took him into the depths of his imagination. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Science Fiction’
September 11, 2008
The Large Hadron Collider, Doomsday Predictions and More
A two year old article here describes the nature of human folly, especially about scientific experiments. The article talks of predictions of impending doom because the LHC ( 1 , 2 ) could create “black holes”, according to some doomsday prediction “experts”. There are efforts under way to recreate the first femtoseconds after the Big [...]
June 24, 2008
Dr. Kamal and Mr. Hype
Well, what can I say about Dasavatharam? I haven’t seen it yet, but I would like to. For various reasons.
I expect that it should be as fun to watch as Sivaji (and trust me, I wish I had walked away from that movie at times, but came back for the funny bits in the movie, [...]
February 27, 2008
Moon X-Prize
Nice idea. But the engineering is not worth the effort. How I would love to sit down, not be interrupted by anything, learn how to design a spacecraft. The experience of designing an airplane is exhilarating and sometimes painstaking, and overall quite rewarding.
Google knows about as much about spaceflight or lesser than John [...]
January 31, 2008
Unreal
There’s so much happening in my work life that I hardly have time for the stuff which used to be fun. At times though, I break through the veil and spend hours gaming, like I used to in college. With this recent spurt in gaming, there is also the urge to go back and [...]
