There are very few places on earth more mysterious than Nasca Lines in Peru, South America, with Pyramids of Egypt still topping my list. Nasca is one of the driest places on earth, and that is one of the reason they are well preserved. Around 1500 figures have been discovered till now, made of straight [...]
You all know i believe in aliens… That is why my blog’s name is also alien world. My apartment is a multi-storey complex. I live on 8th floor. One night, After a busy day in office, I returned home. I was still waiting on the ground floor for the lift to open, when I heard [...]
Varaha, or the Boar Incarnation of Vishnu. Mahdya Pradesh, 9th-10th century. Avatar is a Sanskrit work, which literally means incarnation. Avatar is a very common referenced term in Hinduism, and almost every God has an avatar. For example, Siva has twenty-eight avatars, Vishnu has 10, also referred as Dasavatara (Das = 10), Ganesha has 8, [...]
This is pure work of fiction based on scientific discovery and mythology… Hominids walking on the face of earth has been established to more than 3.5 million years ago. In 1978, Mary Leakey & team found footprints frozen in ash some 25 miles southwest of Olduvai Gorge. These footprints were formed by a fleeing family [...]
Egyptian and Indian culture are the testimony of the power and intelligence that was with the people of these civilization thousands of years back. Perhaps the science was more advance then, than it is now. I was recently reading a book on Teleportation – the science of moving from one place to another with the [...]
How alien are we? I give a lot of thought about it, considering how diverse the life on earth is be it over the surface or in water. Roughly 1.75 million species have been formally described and given official names, undescribed are even much more than that (reference http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biodiversity). It is very likely that many [...]
In one of the breath taking discoveries scientists today found an earth like planet named 581 c, in Gliese 581 star system 120 trillion miles away. The new star system is just 20.5 light years away, making Gliese 581 one of the 100 closest stars to Earth. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_sc/habitable_planet Key Facts – Why the new planet [...]
Humans are aliens on this planet, or if not entirely then may be partially… considering the fact that homo sapiens is the only species that is intelligent and can speak, read and write. It may be also true that humans must have evolved from a monkey to some extent… evolving may not exactly be the [...]
More I read & think about the evolution of universe, more my belief is firmed that earth is not the only living planet. Now here are some interesting numbers (reference ‘COSMOS’, by Carl Sagan): There are some hundred billion (1011) galaxies, each with on an average having hundred billion stars. In all the galaxies there [...]
I am not an atheist, but neither do I am a firm believer. I am somewhere in between the two. It is hard for me to believe there is God, because I have not seen him ever, but then there are things in this world which for long science has been unsuccessfully trying to explain. [...]