Happy NewYear 2019

First day of the new year is a time for new beginnings & new year resolutions. 2018 was an eventful year as well as a good one. Sona managed well in her 3rd Sem and Sum has completed a major activity in his new area of work. 1st jan went to work in first half and took leave in 2nd half as Sona was having cold. Stayed at home for the day. Hope for an eventful new year 2019 as well as a happy and healthy one for parents & friends & everyone.

Poem in Hindi

This poem is ringing in my head

Jo khilate hai hamko (Kisan)
Bhukha rakhte hai ham unko,
Jo ghar banate hai hamare liye (Mazdoor)
Beghar rakhte hai hum unko,
Jo hasate aur rulate hai humko (Actors)
Rakhte mahalon me hum unko
Jo raj karte hai humpar (Politician)
Darte hai hum unse jumkar.

That is the reality of the situation

ज़ो किसान ख़िलात॓  हॅ  हमको
भूखा रखत॓ है़  हम उनको  !
जो मज़दूर घर बनात॓ है हमार॓
ब॓घर रखत॓ है़  हम उनको  !
जो अभिन॓ता हँसात॓ और रुलात॓ है हमको
रखत़॓  महलो़ म॓ हम उनको  !
जो न॓ता राज करत॓ है हमपर,
डरत॓ है हम उनस॓ जमकर    !
यही सचचाई है जिदगी की  ।

Most loved and most hated people categories by profession

Most Hated people by profession

9 out of 10 people surveyed will dislike people whose profession is as follows, in order of hatred

1. Politicians - Ministers, MP's, MLA's & Corporation Employees
2. Lawyers
3. Policemen
4. Income Tax officials
5. Bank Employees
6. Government Servants
7. Government Contractors

This is because these people are perceived to be corrupt, lazy , unprincipled and power hungry . They have power over others. They also invoke envy and fear among common people

People most loved and admired by virtue of their professions. These are professions which require creativity , stamina, willpower and morally upright character

1. Sportsmen & Sportswomen- cricketers, olympic & asian games  medal winners
2. Film & television actors and actresses
3. Teachers & professors of school & colleges
4. Doctors & nurses
5.  Army, navy & air force personnel
6.  Scientists & researchers
7.  Authors
8.  Journalists & Media people

People in these professions normally evoke love , respect & admiration as they are perceived to be heroic and working for the good of others, selflessly.

People are generally neutral to these professions
1. Businessmen & women
2. Information Technology Professionals
3. Corporate professionals
4. White collar workers in offices and industries
5. Blue collar workers in factories, and building sites

Lucky Day

3rd April 2017 was extremely lucky day for me. Not because I suddenly came into a lot of money or found a diamond lying on the road ! No its because I got back my lost AAdhar card which till then I had not even realized that I had lost.
     2nd April was Sona's first exam of 2017- JEE Main, an extremely harrowing day. It started off by me the milk packet springing a leak first thing in the morning - not a good thing. Somehow it was overlooked and S dropped Sona off at the test centre. Then he came and I took my aadhar documents, and we went to the adhar centre as I had to rectify my birthdate in the card. It was closed as we found but unknown to me I dropped my card there at Khadki. When we came home I serenely put the folder  back in the almirah, not realizing this. The day passed by. S & I went to Kondhwa to reecce the next exam centre. The next day in the evening I got a call from the building watchman who said that some poor man had found the card at Khadki, and then walked all the distance to give it at the society's gate. I was astounded. I immediately told him that I would come to get it. I checked in the folder - and the aadhar card was not there. I had actually dropped it! Thankfully when S got the card from the watchman it was a bit folded, but quite intact! Quite amazing in fact. The watchman told me that he had called up the previous day as well but someone who took the call told him that noone by my name stayed there and it was a wrong number. I was flabbergasted. I asked Sona, and then she said that she had not realized that the watchman was asking for me , she thought it was a wrong number. Both S and Sona then started scolding me for dropping my aadhar card in such a careless manner. Sadly we could not get the poor man's number who had taken such pains to bring the aadhar card to the correct place. I would have very much liked to meet him and thank him . But such a lucky day! Dropping a document, not realizing it & then getting it back in one piece too! I ascribe all this luck to watching Kapil Sharma's show on TV the previous day. He really makes everyone laugh & being positive reflects on everyone around us. 

Saraswati Puja 2017

Saraswati Puja on 1st Feb 2017

Prayers to Goddess Saraswati on the occasion of Saraswati Puja

Dear Goddess Saraswati,
Please Forgive me for all the mistakes made during the puja and pushpanjali
Please accept the humble offerings
Please grant our wishes, gracious Goddess

How Money grows in stocks

The picture below represents very accurately how wealth can be created in stocks which grow surely and steadily when invested in a good company over the years

Salary  Growth in Private Sector

 Starting with Rs9500 in 2001, a salaried person will make Rs50,000 in 2015.

The Fermi Paradox

When confronted with the topic of stars and galaxies, a question that tantalizes most humans is, “Is there other intelligent life out there?” Let’s put some numbers to it—

As many stars as there are in our galaxy (100 – 400 billion), there are roughly an equal number of galaxies in the observable universe—so for every star in the colossal Milky Way, there’s a whole galaxyout there. All together, that comes out to the typically quoted range of between 1022 and 1024 total stars, which means that for every grain of sand on every beach on Earth, there are 10,000 stars out there.

The science world isn’t in total agreement about what percentage of those stars are “sun-like” (similar in size, temperature, and luminosity)—opinions typically range from 5% to 20%. Going with the most conservative side of that (5%), and the lower end for the number of total stars (1022), gives us 500 quintillion, or 500 billion billion sun-like stars. 

There’s also a debate over what percentage of those sun-like stars might be orbited by an Earth-like planet (one with similar temperature conditions that could have liquid water and potentially support life similar to that on Earth). Some say it’s as high as 50%, but let’s go with the more conservative 22% that came out of a recent PNAS study. That suggests that there’s a potentially-habitable Earth-like planet orbiting at least 1% of the total stars in the universe—a total of 100 billion billion Earth-like planets.

So there are 100 Earth-like planets for every grain of sand in the world. Think about that next time you’re on the beach.

Moving forward, we have no choice but to get completely speculative. Let’s imagine that after billions of years in existence, 1% of Earth-like planets develop life (if that’s true, every grain of sand would represent one planet with life on it). And imagine that on 1% of those planets, the life advances to an intelligent level like it did here on Earth. That would mean there were 10 quadrillion, or 10 million billion intelligent civilizations in the observable universe.

Moving back to just our galaxy, and doing the same math on the lowest estimate for stars in the Milky Way (100 billion), we’d estimate that there are 1 billion Earth-like planets and 100,000 intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.1

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is an organization dedicated to listening for signals from other intelligent life. If we’re right that there are 100,000 or more intelligent civilizations in our galaxy, and even a fraction of them are sending out radio waves or laser beams or other modes of attempting to contact others, shouldn’t SETI’s satellite dish array pick up all kinds of signals?

But it hasn’t. Not one. Ever.

Where is everybody?

It gets stranger. Our sun is relatively young in the lifespan of the universe. There are far older stars with far older Earth-like planets, which should in theory mean civilizations far more advanced than our own. As an example, let’s compare our 4.54-billion-year-old Earth to a hypothetical 8-billion-year-old Planet X.

If Planet X has a similar story to Earth, let’s look at where their civilization would be today (using the orange timespan as a reference to show how huge the green timespan is):

The technology and knowledge of a civilization only 1,000 years ahead of us could be as shocking to us as our world would be to a medieval person. A civilization 1 million years ahead of us might be as incomprehensible to us as human culture is to chimpanzees. And Planet X is 3.4 billion years ahead of us…

There’s something called The Kardashev Scale, which helps us group intelligent civilizations into three broad categories by the amount of energy they use:

A Type I Civilization has the ability to use all of the energy on their planet. We’re not quite a Type I Civilization, but we’re close (Carl Sagan created a formula for this scale which puts us at a Type 0.7 Civilization).

A Type II Civilization can harness all of the energy of their host star. Our feeble Type I brains can hardly imagine how someone would do this, but we’ve tried our best, imagining things like a Dyson Sphere.

A Type III Civilization blows the other two away, accessing power comparable to that of the entire Milky Way galaxy.

If this level of advancement sounds hard to believe, remember Planet X above and their 3.4 billion years of further development. If a civilization on Planet X were similar to ours and were able to survive all the way to Type III level, the natural thought is that they’d probably have mastered inter-stellar travel by now, possibly even colonizing the entire galaxy.

One hypothesis as to how galactic colonization could happen is by creating machinery that can travel to other planets, spend 500 years or so self-replicating using the raw materials on their new planet, and then send two replicas off to do the same thing. Even without traveling anywhere near the speed of light, this process would colonize the whole galaxy in 3.75 million years, a relative blink of an eye when talking in the scale of billions of years:

Source: Scientific American: “Where Are They”

Continuing to speculate, if 1% of intelligent life survives long enough to become a potentially galaxy-colonizing Type III Civilization, our calculations above suggest that there should be at least 1,000 Type III Civilizations in our galaxy alone—and given the power of such a civilization, their presence would likely be pretty noticeable. And yet, we see nothing, hear nothing, and we’re visited by no one.

So where is everybody?

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Welcome to the Fermi Paradox.