Yep, this could be one potent reasoning. And that is why I said in my original post that it will be interesting to find out about that ancient civilisation that was able to think about so many advance concepts.
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In air? Then how is it better than the general characterisation as "Air vehicle"?
> Or a ballon.
Yeah, could be. And flying a balloon from Sri Lanka to Nashik(while crossing ocean) and back again would have been an achievement in itself during that period.
Please read the last line of my original post.
> If you're not drawing the conclusion they actually existed, what conclusion are you drawing?
I am saying, that the description given in the text is too specific for it to be dismissed right away. And even if it is hokum, then the sheer level of imagination of ancient civilisation to mention flying vehicles, missiles, teleportation, body preservation and test-tube baby is appreciable. It will be good to know what type of civilisation was that that was able to imagine these advance concepts.
> Since we know where (fairly precisely) these things took place, we should have significant archaeological evidence for them.
Sure, I am all for scientific evidence. In fact I would like to see that it is either supported or refuted with evidence. From some of the comments it looks like for rejecting a hypothesis no evidence is required, but for supporting it evidence is demanded. If there is no evidence to either support or refute it, then the matter should be inconclusive rather than concluding it either way.
> Clarification: in modern Hindi.
https://kosha.sanskrit.today/word/en/Chariot/sa
You don't know Samskrut, do you?
No, that is not true. Your own sentence use the word "most". In Indian there is a distinction between vehicle("yaan") and chariot("rath").
> We use the translation "chariot" because, at the time, the only vehicles we know of in the relevant culture were chariots.
How do you know? If the ancient text itself makes a distinction between "vaayu yaan" and "rath" then that indicates there were more than one modes of transportation.
Who said it was a chariot? I think you are linking some "flying chariot" from other text to "vaayu yaan" from some different text. "vaayu" means "air" and "yaan" means "vehicle". This is far more specific that "flying chariot".
> And every chariot carrying the Moon a lunar lander?
Just curious, isn't carrying a Moon very different from landing on the Moon? Equating "carrying a Moon" to "landing on Moon" does not even mean same thing, so that can be thought as extrapolation. But the more specifics of "using vaayu yaan" to travel on earth from Lanka(which exists today) to Panchavati(which also exists today) does not need the extrapolation as was required in the previous sentence.
How is the mention of ""vaayu yaan" abstract? Can we similarly say that to the mention of present day "aeroplane" abstract and dismiss it as non-existent?
> For e.g. with flying vehicles in ancient epics I'm skeptical that they describe in any detail how flight was achieved besides magic or divine power.
In present day writings(fiction or otherwise) when we mention flights or aeroplane, we don't mention every nut and bolt of the aeroplane. So saying the ancient text did not give much details is unfair to those texts. As I mentioned in my original post, these advance ideas were mentioned in a matter-of-fact way as if it is not a novelty, similar to how we now mention air travel or space flights.
But there is no need for interpretation or misinterpretation of some of these texts because the text directly mentions the transportation e.g. in Raamaayan, the then king of Lanka(present day Shri Lanka), Raavan, flew from Lanka on his "vaayu yaan"(i.e. aeroplane) to Panchavati(in present day Nashik in the western state of Maharashtra in India) to kidnap Sitaa, wife of Raam.
Meetup aim: Meet founders, host demo day, hackathon, pitch practice etc.
Location: REMOTE/Online (Discord server: https://discord.gg/MzhGqQC)
Date/Time: Everyday; it is an open community where people can host their own meetup/demo day/pitch practice/hackathons etc as per their preferred timezone.
C++ language development is a classic case of what feature creep looks like for a software project that is on the path to self-harm.
If I have to work on frontend then I will use Nim (or Typescript at the most). But I will stick to systems programming and "backend development". And I don't want to work on server-side Javascript.
> More user-space apps than ever has been / is being ported to the browser, e.g. Photoshop.
If I understand it correctly, the C++ Photoshop code was compiled to webassembly, rather than ported to Javascript.
It is for the masses i.e. students from varying financial background.
XR(eXtended Reality) is an umbrella term that covers AR(Augmented Reality), VR(Virtual Reality) and MR(Mixed Reality). So instead of writing AR/VR/MR it is usually written just as XR.
I am planning on targeting Google Cardboard and Android devices(because of affordability) and using open source tools and frameworks.
I didn't know that! This should be illegal. Because it is the consumer who ultimately pays for this. It is like going in to a car show room with the intent of buying car X, but have to pay for both car X and car Y because the dealer had some contract with manufacturer of car Y! How is this acceptable in computer industry?
My bad, sorry about that! I have lately gotten into a bad habit of using acronyms and not explaining them.
XR stands for eXtended Reality; it is a generic term that represents VR(Virtual Reality), AR(Augmented Reality) and MR(Mixed Reality). So, instead of writing VR/AR/MR, people just write XR.
How is that so?
By Linux laptops, I mean laptops that come with Linux(or DOS) pre-installed. This should reduce the cost of the laptop as Windows license fees is not required. But the Linux pre-installed laptops cost more than the Windows laptops!
BTW, how will the interest and the share upside percentage be determined?
I was working for a company and employees there were working for long hours and weekends. Managers too were doing the same. It was sort of a badge of honour that an employee is working beyond the office hours and also on weekends. It was the culture of the company. Then one day the managers were sent to a workshop on how to identify talent, increase productivity and build a more happy culture.
When they came back from the workshop, a strict dictat was passed that no one will be in the office for more than 8 hours and no work on weekends. So one day I asked one of the managers, why the sudden change? what has changed? And he replied, in the workshop they attended the speakers there said, if an employee is working long hours and working on weekends then either the employee is incompetent, has no ability to delegate or the company has serious problem of allocating tasks to people so that one person is not overloaded with work. This amounts to burnout, sets wrong example to other employees and overtime decreases productivity. All this is not good for the company and the employees.
So, this comparison of 10x with "works after hours, weekends, during vacations" is wrong on so many levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m7uL4Q44ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6jItZF5ZeU
It is said that history repeats itself!
Well, the biggest headache of the fiasco in Afghanistan is going to be for India. Now the fighters are free from fighting in Afghanistan, guess where they are going to be redirected!