Science Safari
Mar 12th, 2007 by MadV
Last night while I was browsing the television channels, I got myself stuck with NAT GEO. The programme was Science Safari. It was about ‘Indian Science Reaches Dizzy Heights‘.
The presentor from Hong Kong was amazed by the advancement in Indian science and technology. So was I when I realised that what they were showing is about our Mother India. A few from the citations which picked up my interest are:
Satellite Enabled Fishing - Days of prolonged wait to catch some decent amount of fish are over now. Every day can be turned into a ‘Chaakara’ using the satellite technology.
How it works is that the satellites will be taking pictures of different parts of ocean. And a station processes these pictures based on the density of living parameters. This data will be immediately send to the fishing boats. They’ll receive easily comprehensible data through the specialised instruments attached in the boat. Then they very well can move to highly dense fishy areas and return home with loads of sea fish.
Video Enabled Teaching - The Andhra Pradesh govt has been very keen on the development of IT sector in the state. The best part is that the development is not confined to urban areas but also villages. No more they require a teacher in thier class rooms. The teacher may be sitting far beyond, but is readily available for the children to clear doubts and explain the topics.
And the teacher’s room is equipped with all teaching aids. The added advantage is that they can even club different classrooms, which are geographically farther, and have discussions. Teaching has become more than just lecturing in AP.
In the agricultural sector, advancements are further amazing. When ever a pest or insect, that may result in failing of that year’s crop, gets in to the field, the farmer may report to the local agricultural office. The officials will immediately come to the field and take snaps of the pest. This will be send to the head agricultural research centre. They’ll analyse the pest and then put forward a suitable pesticide.
This will save the farmer’s crop. Which otherwise would have taken prolonged time resulting in bad days for the farmer.
Hope to know more about Indian science in future. And hopes and wishes for Indian science to achieve higher altitudes in every field.
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This is why Blogger was better.
i neednt have to fill up all info all time.
Switching from blogger was cool
but putting an ad in it before u moved from there was rather rude.
Ugly. i wanted to describe what the ad looks like. but its bit vulgar so i deleted it.
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No more comments from my side in wordpress.
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Its true though, the (required) fields are a bit .. ummm what should I say ” not necessary”. Also it checks out maths skills .. ( I usually get something like “Sum of 3 + 9 ?” )
Also I find that the blog owner’s replies to comments don’t count as a comment, hence doesn’t increase the comment count? Its a bit difficult to trace if the owner has replied to your comment until you actually go into the post and check it out there…
@Intruder: Oops last comment? Huh.. You can register in this site once and get rid of the formality of filling up the data all the time. [You can find the register link under meta header in the sidebar.]
Thanks for the comment about switching :):):).
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@Rajesh: Hehe.. the script tests my math skills also. Can admin ever spam???!!!
Blog owner has the freedom to edit guest’s comment. I tried a new way of replying to comments by editing the existing comment. Now I find it is not good for lazy people as well as for guest awaiting replies. Hence switching back to previous mode.