Astronomy v/s Astrology

Astro means star, whereas nomos means  "arranging, regulating" and logia means "treating of". Hence astronomy is understanding star arrangement and astrology is treatment of humans based on star arrangement. But astronomy evolved as a branch of science after this Greek etymology description. 

Why astrology is wage ?

a) It blames its own input data interpretation, no twins born under same stars can have same life. No proper conclusive evidence of error propagation for further conclusion is seen on this case study.

b) The description solution is so wide it would cover the asked question to be both true and false.

c) It always says astrology is backed up by ancient mathematics, but back then Geo-centric model was used. But no clear justification is given by the astrologers, what happens to the differed prediction of Geo-centric and Helios-centric models.

d) No proper classification of celestial objects. Astrologers say it covers entire universe, if so what about the multi-verse ? 

Note: Multi verse is still a working theory in science.

Garbage Maintenance = Human civilization ?

Mohenjo-daro is the oldest known advanced civilization located at south Pakistan (previously in northern India). The per-historical context describes the beautiful urban marvel and civil engineering decor as civilization. In a philosophical way to understand the per-historical description: civilization depend up on building monuments and how people can maintain human garbage! Unfortunately it does not describe about the love towards life as we all hope to be. It is a very biased description or it is the truth of human nature. Hence the goal of the city should be to keep it clean, which makes sense to be a part of human life, but it should not be termed as the achievement of civilization. 

If this is true, then we have to re-define civilization; Many science fiction books and movies talk about understanding alien civilization but it is still the definition of human civilization, which needs to be cleared.

Taste of possible future 2050 : Not science fiction

How does the future around 2050 looks like?

Start with Elon's vision: 
All the car driving jobs are going to be replaced by automated Tesla cars, the energy crisis could be solved using ideologies of solar city (example : solar roof tails), space internet for everybody on earth and the biggest plan is to become interplanetary species (colonizing Mars via SpaceX!). Also not to forget Boring company (hyper loops for transportation), as an astrophysicist I believe in Elon's Mars vision, and also the rest of the other visions makes sense.

Rest of the world's vision from my pick:

• What happens to trade?

All the trading companies (like: Amazon, e-commerce companies) might shut down once block chain hits the market, as it will be a single trading platform for all kinds of transactions.

• What happens with collaboration of AI and neuroscience ?

Connectone neural network in the field of artificial intelligence which might go either way for the future. (i.e., the complete brain mapping of neural network could be copied to a computer and then use them for the fullest brain capacity). Present cutting edge research is basically cutting down the actual brain sample and then take a image of them to see the different layers and then map them to a computer.

• What happens in the life science world?

CASPER (Genome editing tool), this tool helps doctors to edit the genes. Actually this might give us an opportunity to control biological needs, example:  how tall you want to grow?, what eye color we want? sounds creepy! On a main scale, CASPER could help us to solve the cancer problem once it for all.

• What happens to agriculture and farmers?

Robotic agricultural farming with laser drones that takes care of the health of land and the crops, later the updates are made available for the farmers in their smart phones, seems more possible in the near future.

• What happens to the research and development field? 

Quantum computing is going to transform this area.

Hence the future dreams seems exciting and filled with uncertainty! Leave long and prosper...

Start up idea on: Astrobiology Institute in Bengaluru !

Why I am so keen on writing about astrobiology course in Bengaluru?
Answer: Read about my research structure below! 

About me:

I am a recipient of young researcher award from European Space Agency (ESA): for works on exoplanets [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10509-017-3131-y] and also received an young scientist award from 105th Indian Science Congress under physical sciences: based on the works of extremophile survivability on rocky exoplanets [https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06341]. 

                      Picture credits: Washington post tardigrade which can survive in space

Which makes me an interdisciplinary researcher in Astrophysics and Astrobiology. I know this can be solved by working as an individual with the help of a mooc course and collaborating abroad as a researcher, which I am doing presently. But in order to motivate the next generation the growth is necessary, with a proper coursework and guidance. As a fact my biology knowledge is till 10th grade! so my concern as per help for guidance goes can be understood.

What can be done?

A quote from star trek goes "Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!",  we need to pay attention here. For any new knowledge to grow it has to go under a university structure. As a matter presently astrobiology falls under a domain status, but when it becomes a discipline then things will move forward quickly. Hope this reaches UGC! or there are some astrophysicists from IIA making a progress in this field can recommend government to start a new institute for this area, funds are pretty much necessary.

Any people with start up capabilities can make a difference by starting a astrobiology institute. Which is faster and more of a trend these days! 

<If you are looking for a collaborator you are most welcome to contact me>

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