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8月14日 Victorythis is to inform all bvnites about a very recent event...
I, Prateek Arora and my teammate Rishab Arora have won the Nehru Planetarium Astronomy and Space Quiz 2006... on 14th August 2006..
it was a challenge which we faced and finally, success..
we reached the planetarium and were seated behind old rivals.................. Sardar Patel(S.P.)
so, the quiz started.. there were four rounds..... we scored 1out of 3 in the first round...... so did SP
came back strongly in the second round with 3 out of 3.........................SP got 2 this time
then the sky round... we got a moderate 2 out of 3 but SP got 3 out of 3
so, even stevens... no.........
beause in the final AV round, we scored 3 out of 3 and took a total 9 points.........
surprise package, RAMJAS SCHOOL: 10 points
but Sardar Patel, tied with 5 other schools at 8
it can't end there.............
SP won the tie breaker and it was down to three team showdown in the finale
well, we got 20 points in the first round with me answering all the three questions
SP got 5 points {oh, by the way Ramjas comprised of a couple of dunces and got zero points in the entire finale}
okay, our tormentor the sky round.............
SP scored 15, we scored zero
EVEN STEVENS
the tie breaker
we were aked quetions and we were to answer in the quizmaster's year
the problem, we both were answering correctly
finally a ques which SP din' know and we knew and
we WON
well that's the story and it's great because SARDAR PATEL HAD BEEN WINNING FOR 14 YEARS WE BROKE THAT WINNING STREAK.. HAHAHAHAHA
ANY WAYS THAT'S HOW WE WON 5月27日 BOARD RESULTSHEY FRIENDS,
GREAT SHOW AT THE BOARDS....
WELL, SUCH A RESULT WAS LEAST EXPEXCTED FROM OUR BATCH
45% PPL HAV GOT 90+
TOPPER - AVANTIKA SINGH (97.6%)
WELL, I GOT 94%...... NOT BAD EH?
IN SUCH A SCENARIO, 90+ seems NOT TOO GREAT
WELL NEWAYS, GREAT SHOW
BEST O' LUCK
PRATEEK 5月22日 THE GREATEST INVENTION OF THE PAST 200YEARSTHE GREATEST INVENTION OF THE PAST 2000 YEARS:
LENSES
It does seem an odd answer but i'll soon justify it....
Firstly, without lenses many people could not read this and i couldn't write this... and, even worse, you might never have been able to read or write, had your eyes needed correction. i remember wearing my first pair of glasses and suddenly having the whole world come into focus. while seeing properly is important, it seems limited to p0ick spectacles as the greatest invention. my vote is for all lenses big or small, convex or concave, alone or combined; the lenses we use to read the universe and the intricacies of life are variations of those we use to read a written word........ just come to think of it, lenses hv prevented the world from being ruled by people under the age ofg 40
so, let's start with plain ol' spectacles. we dont really know when they first came into use. they started appearing in Italy in 1300's and by 1600 there were specialized artisans who ground lenses and kept their tricks secret.
one of them, a Dutch spectacle maker, Lippershey, saw that a combination of two lenses made an object look bigger. he made the first telescopes hoping to become rich. he didn't succeed but several telescopes were made. one of them reached Galileo Galilei. he pointed his device towards the night sky and looked out. he destroyed it, reconstructed it and improved it. what he saw changed our view of the world. the sun rotated around its axis, Venus revolved around the sun, the moon had mountains and valleys, Jupiter had 4 moons, the Milky Way was made up of large no. of stars. Copernicus and Kepler were right and Ptolemy was wrong............ earth was not the center of the universe.....and there was no going back, there started the space exploration.........
from telescope to microscope. they were discovered at about the same time.....not surprising..as they both involved just the simple piecing together of the right two lenses in correct positions. Galileo used the microscope to see flies the size of sheep, spots of dirt the size of rocks but ignored its significance.... in 1665, Robert Hooke published MICROGRAPHIA. The book contained pictures ............a fly's eye, picture of a louse etc..... then Anton van Leeuwenhoek made a lens of magnifying power -- 500. at that point, a drop of water turned out to be filled with little animals swimming in it. it was the discovery of bacteria..............................
but still the greatest lens of all time was not invented in tha lst 2000 years but much before that, the eye. it was invented by a great inventor......... evolution.
we all know how light rays enter our eye, are immediately bent towards the retina by the cornea. the rays then meet the second focusser, the eye lens -- structured like an onion --- with transparent layers, designed for optimum focusing. the image focussed on retina which has visual cortex and voila.... we see the image
the greatest invention f the last 2000 years, for me is the lens..... but if we talk about all time, its the brain which figured it out how to use the lens..........
please write wat u feel is the greatest invention of the past 2000 years and also giv ur comments
best of luck
Prateek
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