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‘As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – Every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.’                                                                                                   Astronaut John Glenn John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth aboard a space capsule in 1962 at speeds of up to 17,000 miles per hour, thrice circling the globe in less than five hours. The mission,which was critical to understanding the human body’s reaction to outer spac...

There’s an African fable that goes: In the jungle when  the lion wakes up early in the morning, its prayer is for God to make an appointment between itself and a deer – and that He does not assist either of them after that.                      You can bet that this one was narrated by a lioness seated somewhere under a tree, leisurely picking its tooth with a hare’s rib. Anyway, doesn't it kind of explain what ascending to power is like? History has shown, time and again, that only those who leave the battleground alive get to determine how the events of a war will be recollected. While the latter might receive mentions as worthy adversaries and heroes (by their own folks), generally the victor, now  the people’s champion ,remains etched firmly in the minds of the populace as their strong protector who can be relied upon to lead by averting any internal or external a...

In this life, you are either the hammer or the anvil   -Goethe I recently chanced upon a TED Talk interview on YouTube of inventor Elon Musk on his yet another ambitious project (but not to him) premised on the idea that the road traffic  menace can be eased by the creation of a network of 3D tunnels that will entail boring hundreds of kilometres.The project,which is to be piloted by his Boring Company in Los Angeles, California will entail a lot of rock cutting, that will needless to mention revolutionise related industries as more efficient boring and drilling equipment will need to be invented. For those who the name is yet to ring a bell,Mr.Musk is the founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors.    During the interview, he passionately explains, with the aid of videographics, of how special elevators will be used to cart  a vehicle down a constructed underground rail which will skate it for  speeds of up to 200 km/hour and at the ...