LFTD-41109

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The Integrity of a Smile

It costs nothing, but creates much.
It enriches those who receive without
impoverishing those who give.

It happens in a flash, and the memory of
it sometimes lasts forever.
None are so rich they can get along without it,
and none so poor but are richer for its benefits.

It creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill
in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
It is rest to the weary, daylight to the discouraged,
sunshine to the sad, and nature’s best antidote
for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen,
for it is something that is no earthly good to anyone
until it is given away.
And if in the course of the day some of your friends
should be too tired to give you a smile, why don’t
you give them one of yours?
For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have
none left to give!

My Bookshelf is waiting…

… for these most popular Science Fiction Books:

• Ender’s Game
• Dune
• Foundation
• Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• 1984
• Stranger in a Strange Land
• Fahrenheit 451
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• I, Robot
• Neuromancer
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Starship Troopers
• Ringworld
• Brave New World
• Rendezvous With Rama
• The Time Machine
• Hyperion
• Childhood’s End
• The War of the Worlds
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• The Martian Chronicles
• The Forever War
• Slaughterhouse Five
• Snow Crash
• The Mote in God’s Eye
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Speaker for the Dead
• The Man in the High Castle
• Jurassic Park
• The Stars My Destination
• The Caves of Steel
• Gateway
• Lord of Light
• Solaris
• A Wrinkle In Time
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Cat’s Cradle
• Contact
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Gods Themselves
• Cryptonomicon
• The Day of the Triffids
• Time Enough For Love
• A Clockwork Orange
• Flowers for Algernon
• UBIK
• A Fire Upon the Deep
• Red Mars
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• Frankenstein
• The End Of Eternity
• The Diamond Age
• The Sirens of Titan
• Player Of Games
• The Dispossessed
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Battlefield Earth
• Startide Rising
• Ender’s Shadow
• The Reality Dysfunction
• Lucifer’s Hammer
• Eon
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Demolished Man
• A Scanner Darkly
• The Shadow of the Torturer
• The Stainless Steel Rat
• The City and the Stars
• The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
• The Door Into Summer
• Citizen Of the Galaxy
• Doomsday Book
• Out of the Silent Planet
• Sphere
• The Puppet Masters
• Have Space-Suit – Will Travel
• Ilium
• The Invisible Man
• Way Station
• The Lathe of Heaven
• A Princess of Mars
• The Chrysalids
• Use of Weapons
• Revelation Space
• The Many-Colored Land
• Grey Lensman
• Roadside Picnic
• Stand on Zanzibar
• Flatland
• Altered Carbon
• The Postman
• The Fountains of Paradise
• City
• Burning Chrome
• VALIS
• More Than Human
• Blood Music
• A Connecticut Yankee in KA’s Court
• The Time Traveler’s Wife

 Sigh!!!

Say More with Less

Now, wear a thinking cap and say more with less…

 

Topic:  Can Machines Ever Have Souls??

Just An Insight:

The religious will argue that a soul is something unique to mankind; imbued by whichever creator their faith believes in, making it impossible for machines to ever have soul.

The atheists will argue that there’s no such thing as a “soul”, only sentience and/or self-awareness.

Others will meander aimlessly between the two!!

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That’s It!

 Dad used to say, “Life is a Drama.. Everyone performs his/her Role and Goes off the stage.. Just perform your role that you have got from the Dramatist and leave the rest.. ” as Shakespeare had also elaborated this in his “some” play… And that thing got fixed in my mind at the very early stage of my life..

 

During my play I met many other players from whom I learnt many things to carry on the play.. Today my friend Debo just gave me some note that she had got from her friend in Hyderabad.. and after reading the content I thought why shouldn’t I share this with the other players to perform well on this life stage?!!

 

Here is the Content:

 

“Lead A Happy Life

 

Equip yourself with the below qualities and make your life a pleasant one.. Insha Allah!

 

1. Accept: Thankfully
2. Bathe: Daily
3. Decide: Timely
4. Drink: Slowly
5. Eat: Carefully
6. Face: Boldly
7. Listen: Attentively
8. Meet: Smilingly
9. Progress: Gradually
10. Read: Selectively
11. Rise: Early
12. Serve: Willingly
13. Think: Deeply
14. Treat: Kindly
15. Welcome: Warmly
16. Worship: Sincerely
17. Behave: Politely
18. Deal: Tactfully
19. Discuss: Logically
20. Drive: Safely
21. Exercise: Regularly
22. Give: Generously
23. Live: Courageously
24. Plan: Wisely
25. Question: Reasonably
26. Remain: Faithfully
27. Speak: Truly
28. Spend: Moderately
29. Tolerate: Patiently
30. Try: Repeatedly
31. Work: Mannerly
32. Write: Neatly”

 

That’s it…

 

 

Another milestone!

Hmm… So, It’s been more than 2 months now of my wedding and Mr. God is helping my life moving smoothly. The best part of the event was the date of marriage.. Yes it was 23rd of Nov; exactly one month before my Bday (i.e. 23rd Dec)… Dec has been my favorite month and now this time, almost 3 months (Nov, Dec, Jan) went in merry making. I met all my relatives and of course added new members too. I got a supportive and quite understanding life partner… who knows very well of my extraordinary nature!! He’s an MCA guy working with Polaris Software Lab as an Application Developer.. Belongs to the City of MSD (i.e. Ranchi)… used to be a Cricket and Football freak.. likes to play Chess and read mystery books.. he’s a good cook too … and… a fan of Jagjit Singh-Chitra Singh.. He makes me smile with his humorous talks.. :) I never knew the life would go this way; but this is called life.. it unfolds the mysteries as the time passes by!

To be carried forward…

-          I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

-          Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

-          Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.

-          The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Chandrayaan Updates

- To Introduce with, Chandryaan was a two yr moon mission; was launched from Sriharikota on Oct 22^nd… it will draw a 3D map of  the moon, carrying out it’s chemical mapping and hunting for water/ice.

- India became the 5th member of the global moon club on saturday (8th Nov 08), with the craft entering the lunar orbit at 5.04 pm (IST)… Other four members are the US, Russia (former Soviet Union), Japan and China including the members of European Space Agency (ESA).

- The moon mission launcher, Dr. K. Kasturirangan said, the “Lunar Orbit Insertion” (LOI) was a nail-biting moment as the two objects – the moon and Chandrayaan – moving at a high speed had to have a successful rendezvous. At a certain point, the gravity of moon and that of Earth cancel out each other, making LOI very challenging.

- According to the ISRO officials, Chandrayaan’s liquid engine was fired for 817 seconds when the spacecraft passed at a distance of about 500 km from the moon to reduce its velocity to enable the lunar gravity to capture it around the moon. It’s speed was reduced to 366 m/s when it flew into the moon’s orbit.

- The signal to activate the liquid engine was flashed from the mission control room to chandrayaan that went via the deep space network at Byalalu.

- The spacecraft is now around the moon in an elliptical orbit that passes over its polar region. It takes about 11 hrs to go around the moon in this orbit.

- Further, the altitude of the spacecraft will be gradually reduced and the final orbit will be 100×100 km.

- Chandrayaan is carrying 11 instruments, of which six are from abroad – three from ESA, two from NASA, one from Bulgaria and five from India.

- Among the 11 scientific payloads, Bulgarian Experiment – Radom was activated on Oct 22 when the mission was launched. It took the Radiation Data which is already in place. Radom will assess the radiation Environment of the moon, which is expected to play a significant role when india decides on a manned lunar mission around 2020.

- Besides Radom, the indigenous Terrain Mapping Camera (Which will map the entire topography of the moon) and the hyper spectral imager (Which will provide information about minerals) have also been activated.

- The Remaining Experiments will be activated by Nov 20.

- It’s a significant feat; coz India’s moonshot was successful in the very first attempt – something that the US and Russia could not achieve!

 

Half Empty or Half Full

A glass, half filled with water can be perceived as half full or half empty or you can just change the size of the glass to make it completely filled or “less than half filled”.

It’s all about your perception… how you take the situation at that point of time!!