lazy frog

I have had such a lazy day today. After months together I finally decided to take the weekend off. So this Sunday has been spent lying in bed, reading books and doing nothing in particular.

Alfonso left yesterday to go to California and from now on I will be the only person in the lab. I hope I can stay motivated, but considering the amount of work left to do, it shouldn't really be a problem.

race to mars

About 50 years after the Americans became the first to land on the moon (even though some don't believe it) they might become the first to send a man to Mars too.

Now, Mars is a little trickier than Moon. First of all, it is much further away. That makes the mission much longer and hence logistically much more difficult. But also, Mars has an atmosphere. But it doesn't have one of the top stabilised layers called the Stratosphere. This means that the atmosphere is much more turbulent there. So landing can be very very difficult. In 2012 Nasa plans to send a spacecraft there to study the top layer so that the landing procedure, atomspheric conditions can be well understood. This might cost about 500 million!! Is it worth it?

Yesterday a very young girl told us that science is nothing but being nosy. But is it worth spending 500 million just being nosy when there are millions of people going hungry?

I would say yes. Because, even one day of war in Iraq costs the americans a billion dollars. So, if you think of it, going to Mars and trying to find something useful for the human race is worth only half a day in Iraq. Science is not costly is it?

body is like a dog

I went jogging yesterday with Mickeal. After running about 5 miles or so, he said something which I totally agreed with. 'Body is like a dog, after doing something it needs a treat'. In our case it was just a beer nothing else....;)

Was wroking in the lab all day today. The new lab is nearing completion slowly. It is looking really good right now. Pity I won't have too much work in there.

a new leaf

Welcome!! This is the new blog. All the old writings are in one of the archives. And now you can write here too. I am tempted to moderate them, but I'll have good faith in you all and not start off by doing so.

This has all taken a lot of hard work. But I like this end product. It means that I need not worry about making any more new pages for the journal.

That's all for today. Hope you are bored enough.