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Games they liked to play at NIMC aka AIMK

Like every other campus, people at NIMC aka AIMK are no different when it comes to cyber combat. I have been knowing finest snipers, few of the toughest assault team (Hellboy, DT, Rage to name a few)

Counter Strike

Counter Strike, the power puff game which rocks whole night all across the campus through the LAN. The latest version of this game is Counter-Strike: Source - It blends Counter-Strike’s award-winning team play action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology. Featuring state of the art graphics, all new sounds, and introducing physics, Counter-Strike: Source is a must-have for every action gamer. The popularity is still rising and even students have started arranging tournament in college fests with AIMK always as winners, after all practice pays.

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Phoenix on Mars

Mars is a cold desert planet with no liquid water on its surface. But in the Martian arctic, water ice lurks just below ground level. Discoveries made by the Mars Odyssey Orbiter in 2002 show large amounts of subsurface water ice in the northern arctic plain. The Phoenix lander targets this circumpolar region using a robotic arm to dig through the protective top soil layer to the water ice below and ultimately, to bring both soil and water ice to the lander platform for sophisticated scientific analysis.

The complement of the Phoenix spacecraft and its scientific instruments are ideally suited to uncover clues to the geologic history and biological potential of the Martian arctic. Phoenix will be the first mission to return data from either polar region providing an important contribution to the overall Mars science strategy “Follow the Water” and will be instrumental in achieving the four science goals of NASA’s long-term Mars Exploration Program.
Phoenix is a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The scientists conducting the mission will use instruments aboard the Phoenix lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there.

Phoenix plunged into the Martian atmosphere at more than 19,300 kmph after a 10-month, 711 million-km voyage through space. It is the first successful soft landing on Mars since the twin Viking landers touched down in 1976. NASA’s twin rovers, which successfully landed on Mars four years ago, used a combination of parachutes and cushioned air bags to bounce to the surface. It is equipped with a 2.4 meter-long arm capable of digging trenches in the soil to get to ice that is believed to be buried up to 30 cm deep.

Phoenix’s target landing site was 48-km-wide shallow valley in the high northern latitudes similar in location to the earth’s Greenland or northern Alaska. The site was chosen because images from space spied evidence of a reservoir of frozen water close to the surface. Pheonix will talk with ground controllers through two Mars orbiters, which will relay data and images.

Picture released by Nasa on Monday, of one of the first images captured by Phoenix Mars Lander, shows the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars. The flat landscape is strewn with tiny pebbles and shows polygonal cracking, a pattern seen widely in Martian high latitudes and also observed in permafrost terrains on Earth. The polygonal cracking is believed to have resulted from seasonal freezing and thawing of surface ice.

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Second Life Grid

 One of the premier B School of Europe, INSEAD apart from its two campuses at Singapore and Fontainebleau (France near Milan) own a third campus in this online 3-D universe of Second Life (though the school attracts talents from over 70 countries imaging the scope with adding this third campus.) This new campus was created in this March to enable students and professors from around the world to interact. The virtual campus which costed about $15, 800 includes a research lab, amphitheater, and lounge areas. an MBA class on entrepreneurship enables students to test their business plans in Second Life before striking out in the riskier real world.

But how is all those stuffs are done. Underlying scheme under this is - Second Life Grid - It is a platform that enables your organization to create a public or secure private space using the leading 3D online virtual world technology.

Students and educators can work together on the Second Life Grid from anywhere in the world as part of a globally networked virtual classroom environment. Using the Second Life Grid as a supplement to traditional classroom environments also provides new opportunities for enriching an existing curriculum.

• Create Your World, The Way You Want It
• Collaborate in an Immersive Environment
• Optimize Your Business for Virtual Commerce
• Develop a Cost-Effective Virtual Experience
• Discover Innovative Ways to Teach, Learn, and Collaborate
• Reach A Global Audience to promote your brand

What is Second Life, Main Features of Second Life Grid

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Water on Mars

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter whcih consists the shallow subsurface radar (SHARAD) have captured images which indicates the scientists’ quest for finding water elsewhere on Mars can finally be fruitful.

Scientists’ have discovered frozen water in the planet’s mid-northern latitudes, which is far from its polar ice caps.  “Basically, this is ’squirting gun’ (evidence) for recent water on Mars,” says team scientist Ken Edgett, speaking at a NASA briefing. The findings appear this week in the journal Science. [_Source]

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Space waste

US efforts at destroying its failed satellite

The US space department is fighting to kill its failed spy satellite (of a size roughly the size of a school bus).

The satellite was launched in Dec ‘06 which went dead due to unknown reasons after launch. Now its in the orbit of earth at about 208 km over the earth’s surface. Its sure that it would enter into the earth’s atmosphere, it is necessary to kill it keeping in mind the satellite’s fuel tank which is filled with 1000 pounds of toxic hydrazine. The President of the States have order Navy to destry the satellite by using a anti-missile interceptor aimed at the satellite, they are saying that its missiles had destroyed the satellite; but doubts persist about the fuel tank.

In every space voyager, before heading back to Earth, astronauts aboard the space shuttle have to use a little rocket science to perform one last task - filling tons of dirty laundry, empty food trays, packing foam and used equipment into the cargo carrier astronauts have to make sure trash was properly disposed of, using robotic arm to remove the carrier from the station and return it to the shuttle payload bay so that the trash could be brought back to Earth.

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