India's First Online Election

How it would be if you sit at home, out of state or out of India and then also cast your precious vote. Well that’s look like a dream. Many countries already have the system of online election, but this is the first time we Indians can taste how a virtual election feels like, though partially it is now possible (not in real election yet). India Today Group (a leading news network of India) has come up with this innovative idea for the pre-election survey. It’s not like any other pre-election survey here one person can cast only one vote. So, be the first of your friends to cast your vote online for the first time in India. 

The process of casting your vote is simple. Let me tell you step by step instruction.

1) Open ‘election.intoday.in’ in your web browser.

2) Here you will see the map of India. Simply click/select on the state from which you want to cast vote.

3) A menu will appear from this menu select the state.

4) Now, it will ask for your mobile no, enter your no. So, that they can send you a password.

5) You will now see a list of parties contending from that state, simply select the party you want to cast your vote for and enter the password you received in box below party names and click vote.

6) That’s it, you will also see the live result of that region in same window. Congratulation you have successfully casted your vote in India first virtual election.

The trend of online voting is new to India and our electoral commission should take some note from this initiative of India Today Group to implement the same in real election and make our live and election more simple.

What’s your take on this initiative do let us know in comment section below.

Posted by Unknown on 18:05 in first-india-online-vote, india, news, vote-online, xbuster

The Moon Landings by US could be a Hoax

It has been over 44 years from when the first man landed on the moon. But the theory that the moon landings were fraud by the US government to assert their victory in the space race over Russia, is something which has grown in popularity over time.

Even a poll conducted in America indicates that approximately 20% people believe that the U.S. has never landed on the moon. After the end of Apollo missions in the 70’s, why haven’t US gone back to moon? After All six Moon landings happened during the Nixon administration. No other national leader has claimed to have landed astronauts on the Moon, despite 40 years of rapid technological development.

In this list we have presented some of the evidence to suggest that the moon landings were hoax (fake). We also included NASA’s explanations to each proposed evidence.


1) Waving of Flag

When the astronauts are putting up the American flag it waves. Though there is no wind on the Moon and therefore no wind to cause the flag to blow.

Explanation: NASA claimed that the flag was stored in a thin tube and the rippled effect was caused by it being unrolled before being planted. The ripples were caused by the reaction force of the astronauts touching the aluminium pole.

2) Multiple Sources of Light

On the moon, there sun is the only light source. So, all shadows should be parallel to each another. But this was not the case during the moon landing: photographs & videos clearly show that shadows fall in different directions. Theorists suggest that this mean multiple sources of light were present -suggesting that the landing photos were taken on a film set.

Explanation: Uneven landscape was blamed for the strange shadows, with elusive bumps and hills on the moon’s surface causing the variances. But the explanation do not looks viable as how could hills cause such large angular differences in the shadow? In the image above the lunar module’s shadow clearly contradicts that of the rocks in the foreground looks almost at 45 degree angle.



3) The Unexplained Object

In the photograph above we can notice a mysterious object in the reflection of an astronaut’s helmet from the Apollo 12 mission. The object appears to be hanging from a rope or wire without any reason leading some to suggest it is an overhead spotlight typically found in film studios.

Given the poor quality of the photograph. The lunar module in other photos appears to have no extension from it that matches the photo, so the object still remains totally unexplained.

4) No visibility of Stars

Total lack of stars in any of the photographic/video evidence. There is no atmosphere on the moon, so stars should always be visible and significantly brighter than what seen from earth. According to some theorists NASA left them out because it was impossible to map out the exact locations of all stars. 

Explanation: The quality of the photographs washes them off. Though, some photos are of high-quality and yet no stars can be seen in them also. 

Considering the fact that anyone can take pictures of stars from Earth in much lower quality and can still see them, make no sense to NASA claim.

5) No Impact Crater

No blast crater is visible in the pictures taken of the lunar landing module, as if the module was simply placed there. The surface of the moon is covered with lunar dust, and even this doesn't seem to have been displaced in photographs.

Explanation: The lunar module landed on solid rock, covered with a layer of lunar dust, so there is no reason why it would create a blast crater. Even if the ground were less solid, the amount of thrust being produced by the engines at the point of landing and take-off is very low in comparison to a landing on Earth because of the relative lack of gravitational pull

6) The letter ‘C’ engraved on rock

One of the most famous photos from the moon landings which shows a rock, with what appears to be the letter ‘C’ engraved into it. The letter appears to be almost perfectly symmetrical, meaning it is unlikely to be of natural occurrence. A designer at the set could have turned the rock the wrong way, accidentally exposing it to the camera.

Explanation: Blamed photographic developer for adding the letter as a practical joke, while on the other hand said that it may simply have been a hair which got somewhere in the developing process.

7) The Moon Walk

If you speed up the film of the astronauts walking on the Moon’s surface it look like they were moving in Earth’s gravity giving support to the claim that they were filmed on Earth and slowed down. As for the astronaut’s high jump on the moon, which would be impossible to perform in Earth’s gravity, hidden cables and wires have been suggested as giving the astronauts some extra height in there jump. In some photographs outlines of alleged hidden cables can be seen, though it is extremely dim.

8) The Van Allen Radiation Belt

The astronauts could not have survived the absolute levels of radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt that would have cooked the astronauts on route to the moon, despite the layers of aluminium coating the interior and exterior of the spaceship.

Explanation: The short time it takes to pass through the belt and combined with the protection from the spacecraft which means any exposure to radiation would be very low.

9) The Layered Cross-hairs

The cameras used during the moon mission had cross-hairs to help in the scaling and direction. These were imprinted over the top of the photograph. But, some of the images show the cross-hairs behind objects, implying that photographs may have been edited/doctored after being taken. 

Theorists have suggested, NASA printed the man-made objects over an original photograph of the moon to hoax the landings.

10) The Duplicate Backdrop

The two photos from the Apollo 15 mission shown above clearly have identical backdrops, despite being officially listed by NASA as having been taken miles apart. One photo even shows the lunar module. When the photographs were taken the module had already landed, so how can it possibly be there for one photo and disappear in another? Well, it looks that NASA used the same backdrop when filming different scenes of their moon landing videos.

Explanation: Since the moon is much smaller than Earth, horizons can appear significantly closer to the human eye. Despite this, to say that the two hills visible in the photographs are miles apart is demonstrably false.

11) The Rock which was brought back.

The rocks brought back from the Moon are identical to rocks collected from the scientific expeditions to Antarctica.

Explanation: Some Moon rocks have been found on Earth, but they are all sunbaked and oxidised from their entry into the Earth’s atmosphere as asteroids. Geologists have confirmed with complete certainty that the Apollo rocks must have been brought from the Moon by man.

Posted by Unknown on 17:52 in apollo, apollo-11, landing, moon-landing, mythbuster, US, xbuster

Convert Negative Into Digital Photo at Home

We all like to click photos to save some memories of our: tour, life event and many other. Today most of us uses digital cameras to shot photos, but earlier when there was no digital cameras we click photos with the help of camera in which we have to insert a film(reel) to store our photos as negative. Many of us today may today also have those negatives storing our Photos. But most of the time they looks waste as they look of no use to us, because if we have to get a photo out of it we have to go to Color lab to do so.

In this post we will discuss a simple a method to make a digital photograph out of that negative yourself. You may be thinking that it will require a technical skill, but in real it does not require any technical skill. Even a non-techy person can do this without anyone else. To demonstrate you on finding some in my home, i found out a negative.

So let get started, you’ll need following things:

1) DSLR camera(or even a simple still camera can do)

2) A transparent glass sheet(even a glass table can do)

3) One A4 size plain white paper.

4) Source of light(flash light or torch can do)

5) A tripod (don’t have then you can use any other object like blocks to give support for camera)(optional)

STEP 1:

Put the glass slab on two supports to give it proper stable base.The glass will need to be about 1ft. high.

STEP 2:

Put a flash light or torch on the back side of the glass so that light comes from the background of the negative and give correct image of negative to produce a digital photo from it. If you are using a flash light then set it according to the click of your camera so that it flashes when you are taking photo, it gives better result.

STEP 3:

Put the plain white A4 size sheet on the glass slab. It is used to block light from reaching directly on negative and do not hinder our photo of negative. White sheet is also used for one more reason as it give clear background and helps in taking correct picture of our negative as compared to and other colour sheet.

STEP 4: 

Insert your camera into tripod and keep the face of camera toward your object i.e. your negative. It helps in taking a clear pic of the negative as tripod remains more still than your hands. If don’t have tripod then you can use any other object like two blocks to give support for both sides of camera and if that is also not possible then you can use your hands to hold.

STEP 5:

All is ready! So take a photo of your negative and transfer its digital photo to your computer. Make sure your camera is still and surround light are of for best result. You should set your ISO as low as possible to reduce any noise or distortion.

STEP 6:

As you can see your photo don’t looks as a pic you want. Now just simply open the photo in MS Paint or any other program which support invert colour option like MS Power Point, Photoshop etc.

STEP 7:

Now right-click in the Photo, a menu will appear in this menu select invert option. DONE! Your pic is now converted into the Photo you wanted. Crop the photo according to your needs and store.

This was just a BASIC version of converting your negatives into real photo yourself and may not give desired result for your colour photo, but it suits best for Black and White photo.

We will be soon bringing ADVANCED version through which you can convert not only your black & white photo but also colour one with more clarity. Till then convert your black and white photo.

If you have any query or suggestions tell us in comment.

Some photo credit: photo.tutsplus.com

Posted by Unknown on 17:07 in colour-photo, convert-photo, how-to, mythbuster, negative, photo, R&D, xbuster

The Secrets Of RAW, India's Secret Agency

In the mid-1960s, RAW set up two covert groups, Counterintelligence Team-X (CIT-X) and Counterintelligence Team-J (CIT-J). CIT-X as it was setup for operations inside Pakistan while CIT-J was for operation at Khalistani groups. These were a shadow cell within RAW. The existence of CIT-X was first revealed in former RAW official B. Raman’s 2007 book ‘The kaoboys of R&AW.’ 

What emerges from the accounts of former spies is that Indian intelligence agencies employed two types of operatives; Spies and wreckers. CIT-X was headed by an additional secretary but kept away from RAW’s Pakistan desk. The ‘X-men” reported directly to the agency chief even as they infiltrated trained wreckers across the border into Pakistan cities to plant explosives. “Low-grade bombs, no plastic explosives,” according to a former RAW official. They were used to “just to raise the cost of Pakistan’s covert war against India” i.e. to put an end to the ISI's interference in Punjab.

CIT-X was revived by Indira Gandhi in 1968 with the setup of RAW and continued later by Rajiv Gandhi in the early 1980’s when Pakistan spread-out the flames of Khalistani insurgency in Punjab. CIT-X operatives were used in retribution strikes inside Pakistan. 

Spies were recruited by RAW talent spotters who spread-out through border villages looking for physically fit, educated, unemployed youth willing to undertake risky missions. These low-level operatives were used for missions considered too risky for serving intelligence officials.

Hundreds of youngsters were recruited through safe houses situated along border towns by recruiting agents from RAW who operated using fake names. The rented safe houses were frequently changed. There were entire villages that worked in intelligence gathering, including one in Punjab.

Spies were trained for more than a year in spy craft: mastering Urdu, reading maps and visually measuring distances. Recruits were given fake names, identities and Pakistani ID cards. Agents who stayed for long underwent circumcision (surgical removal of the foreskin of males). Spies were thought Urdu and how to say their daily Islamic prayers to blend into the crowd. The recruits knew the consequences of capture: torture, interrogation and solitary confinement.

Sawhney a former spy runs an Ex-Sleuths Association in Jammu Bakshi Nagar; set up in 1992 it has 60 members on its rolls. Over the years, Sawhney has painstakingly tracked down hundreds of burned agents like him scattered across the border districts of three states, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan—their bodies scarred from being strung to ceiling hooks in prisons, knees and ankles hammered with cobber’s nails, genitals numbed by electric shocks.

Though the existence of CIT-X has seen many ups and down’s with every new PM from its revive and shutting down. Existence of CIT-X at present is not known because in 1997 with I.K. Gujral as PM, CIT-X was shut down and after that to in 1998 Atal Bihari Vajpayee also rejected demand from RAW to revive CIT-X.

Posted by Unknown on 17:36 in agents, classified, external-agency, india, r&aw, raw, secret, unrevealed, xbuster

The Code Even the CIA Can't Crack

It has been 23 years but this Code is not yet Cracked, not even by CIA.The sculpture named Kryptos (Greek word for "hidden") with theme of "intelligence gathering." is situated at CIA headquarters contains a secret message, but not even the agency's brightest can crack its code. Sanborn buried his sculpture's message so deeply that a CIA staffer took seven years to solve just the first three sections.

Kryptos is an encrypted sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located HQ of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia. Completed on November 1990, there has been much speculation about the meaning of the encrypted messages it bears. The sculpture continues to provide a diversion for cryptanalysts around the world. On completion of the sculpture CIA released the enciphered text, But it took them more than seven years, not the few months Sanborn had expected, to crack sections first three messages, with the fourth remaining one of the most famous unsolved codes in the world. The first code breaker, a CIA employee named David Stein, spent 400 hours working by hand on his own time.

The sculpture comprises of four large copper plates with other elements made of red and green granite, white quartz, and petrified wood.The most prominent feature is a large vertical S-shaped copper screen resembling a scroll, covered with characters constituting encrypted text. The characters consist of the 26 letters of the standard Latin alphabet and question marks cut out of the copper. The main sculpture contains four separate enigmatic messages. 

The ciphertext on one half of the main sculpture contains 869 characters in total. There are also a few incorrect letters in the ciphertext which Sanborn has said were intentional, and a few letters near the beginning of the bottom half have been displaced from their normal positions, intentionally. The other half of the sculpture comprises a keyed Vigenère encryption tableau, consisting of 867 letters. One of the lines of the tableau is one character too long, which Sanborn indicated was accidental.

Sanborn worked with a retiring CIA employee named Ed Scheidt, Chairman of the CIA Cryptographic Center, to come up with the cryptographic systems used on the sculpture.

Solutions

The following are the solutions of parts 1 to 3 of the sculpture. Misspellings present in the code are included as it is.

Solution 1

BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION

Solution 2

IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ? THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE X WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ? ONLY WW THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO

Sanborn contacted the Kryptos Group (an online community for Kryptos puzzle) to inform them that the accepted solution to part 2 was wrong. Hetold them that he made an error in the sculpture by omitting an "X" used to indicate a break for aesthetic reasons, and that the decrypted text which ended "..FOUR SECONDS WEST ID BY ROWS" will actually be "..FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO".

Solution 3

SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER BUT PRESENTLY DETAILS OF THE ROOM WITHIN EMERGED FROM THE MIST X CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING Q ?

It is a quotation from Howard Carter's account of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun on November 26, 1922, as described in his book The Tomb of Tutankhamun. 

Solution 4

Part 4 remains unsolved, though there is an active Group that coordinates the work of over 2000 members toward decryption of the code.

When commenting about his error in section 2, Sanborn told that the answers to the first sections contain clues to the last section. In November 2010, Sanborn released another clue: Letters 64-69 NYPVTT in part 4 encode the text BERLIN

Let’s see when the Section 4 takes another seven years or we could see it solution in near future.

Posted by Unknown on 18:16 in cia, kryptos, xbuster

UFO sightings by Army personals in Ladakh

After UFO sightings and news of underground base in Kongka La pass (read story here). Another news of of UFO sighting has been reported; but this time by non other than ITBP personnel's there self. 

According to India Today, Units of the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) have reported Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. An ITBP unit based in Thakung, close to the Pangong Tso Lake, reported over 100 sightings of luminous objects between August 1 and October 15 last year. In reports sent to their Delhi headquarters in September last year, and to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), they described sighting "Unidentified Luminous Objects" at day and by night. The yellowish spheres appear to lift off from the horizon on the Chinese side and slowly traverse the sky for three to five hours before disappearing. These were not unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), drones or even low earth-orbiting satellites, say Army officials who have studied the hazy photographs taken by ITBP.

Drone sightings are verified and logged separately. Such mysterious lights have been sighted before in Ladakh, a barren, 86,000 sq km heavily militarised zone wedged between Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir and Chinese-occupied Aksai Chin. The persistent sightings by the ITBP, however, worried the Army's Leh-based 14 Corps.

In September 2012, the Army moved a mobile ground-based radar unit and a spectrum analyser-that picks up frequencies emitted from any object-to a mountaintop near the 160-km-long, ribbon-shaped Pangong Lake that lies between India and China. The radar could not detect the object that was being tracked visually, in dicating it was non-metallic. The spectrum analyser could not detect any signals being emitted from them. The Army also flew a reconnaissance drone in the direction of the floating object, but it proved a futile exercise. The drone reached its maximum altitude but lost sight of the floating object.

In late September, a team of astronomers from the Indian Astronomical Observatory at Hanle, 150 km south of the lake, studied the airborne phenomena for three days. The team spotted the flying objects, Army officials say, but could not conclusively establish what they were. They did, however, say that the objects were "non celestial" and ruled out meteors and planets.

"Something is clearly wrong, if our combined scientific resources can't explain the phenomena," says a senior Army official in Delhi.In 2010, the IAF probed and dismissed Army sightings of such luminous objects as Chinese lanterns. UFO sightings have been endemic to Ladakh over the past decade. In late 2003, 14 Corps sent a detailed report on sightings of luminous objects to Army headquarters.

There is still no explanation, however, for what is believed to be the clearest UFO sighting yet, in the Lahaul-Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh less than 100 km south of Ladakh in 2004.

UPDTAE: Defence Minister A.K. Antony has dismissed any proof of UFOs on India-China                           border.

Posted by Unknown on 13:03 in border, china, india, UFO, xbuster

An Underground UFO Base At Indo-China Border?

Kongka La is the low ridge pass in the Himalayas (the blue oval in the map). It is in the disputed India-China border area in Ladakh. The Chinese held northeastern part is known as Aksai Chin and Indian South West is known as Ladakh. This was where Indian and Chinese army fought major war in 1962. The area is one of the least accessed area in the world and by agreement the two countries do not patrol that part of the border. According to many tourists, Buddhist monks and the local people of Ladakh, Indian Army and Chinese Military maintain the line of control. But there is something much more serious happening in this area.

According to the few locals people on the Indian and Chinese side, this is where the UFOs are seen coming out of the ground, According to many, the UFO underground bases are in this region and both the Indian and Chinese Government know this very well.

Recently, some Hindu pilgrims on their way to Mount Kailash from the Western pass came across strange lights in the sky. The local guides while in the Chinese territory told them that this was nothing new and is a normal phenomenon from Kongka Pass area the tensed border between India and China. This strange lighted triangular silent crafts show up from underground and moves almost vertically up. Some of the adventurous pilgrims wanted to look into the site. They were first turned by the Chinese guard posts as they were refused entry from the Chinese side and then when they tried to approach the site from Indian side, the Indian border patrol also turned them down in spite of their permit to travel between the two countries.

The pilgrims when asked the Indian border petrol personnel. According to them, the security personnel told them that they are ordered not to allow any one near the area of interest and it is true that strange objects come out from under the ground with amplified and modulated lights. India’s Special Forces and possible visit the area by intelligence agencies.

According to the locals extra-terrestrial presence is well known and is in deep into the ground. They believe neither the Indian nor Chinese Governments want to expose the fact for some reason. When they bring up this matter to local Governments, they are told to keep quiet. This is the region where the Euresian plate and the Indian plate have created convergent plate boundaries. Thus this is one of the very few areas in the world where the depth of the crust twice as much as in other places. 

Posted by Unknown on 12:32 in alien, border, china, india, mythbuster, UFO, xbuster