Mocomi TimePass The Magazine - Issue 59

1. Get Your Daily CopY! facebook.com/mocomikids ISSUE 59 MAY 31, 2020 GO tO Doaliensexist? W H AT I S S E T I ? How did Birbal help the astrologer? THERE IS A SCIENCE BEHIND SWING BOWLING

2. FOLKTALE Birbal Helps an Astrologer Once, somebody informed Emperor Akbar that a certain astrologer in the city was bragging about his accurate predictions everywhere. Akbar summoned the astrologer to his court and thought of testing the accuracy of his predictions. When the astrologer presented himself in the durbar, he said, “I have heard that you predict very accurately.” The astrologer was flled with great fear and awe as he was standing in front of the mightiest of the kings. Not even a single word could come out of his mouth and he kept standing with folded hands. Akbar asked, “O’ learned astrologer, you shall be handsomely rewarded if you are able to answer just a simple question of mine. Tell me, when will you die?” The astrologer was shaking with fear and did not know what to say. He thought for a moment and then said that he will have to consult his charts to predict correctly. The Emperor gave him one hour’s time to do so. Instead of consulting his charts, the astrologer went running to Birbal for help and described the whole thing. Birbal thought of a brilliant answer and told the astrologer what to say in front of the Emperor. The astrologer returned to the court and told the king, “I will die three days before you, Jahanpanah!” Akbar could make out that the astrologer was blufng, but did not want to take a chance. Like every other human being, he did not want to know the time of his death, so he let him go. Thus the astrologer was able to save his life with the help of clever Birbal. That day onwards, he never bragged about anything. Akbar Birbal: 2

3. How Many of each Alien can You see? Stories in Rhyme What If When I see the new moon lightly Through cloud ripples slip, Then I'm sure that shining brightly It's a fairy ship! What if in it we were sailing Far and far away, With a wake of silver trailing, Till the golden day? Why, we'd fy back home together Safely from the sky, For the moon's a fairy feather When the sun is high!

4. CASA & ASA Discoveries and Inventions How will we discover extra terrestrial life? Project SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) began actively in 1960 when an American astronomer Frank Drake started searching for radio sig- nals from two stars near Earth. SETI is based at the University of Cali- fornia and the purpose of this project is to use radio telescopes from around the world to scan the sky to look for special patterns in radio waves that could have been sent by some alien civilization in space. There is a huge radio telescope installed at Arecibo, Puerto Rico that catches all the radio signals foating around in space. This telescope has a huge bowl-shaped dish which is almost 1000 feet in diameter and takes pride in being the world’s largest stationary radio telescope. The researchers analyze thousands of radio signals intercepted through this telescope daily. Currently, astronomers are building an Allen Array Telescope which would be able to check more stars and the planets orbiting around them with higher precision. Since 1998, astronomers in Harvard University have been keenly looking to intercept pulse optical signals. The Planetary Society (Headquarters in Pas- adena, California) also surveys the sky for optical extraterrestrial signals using a large telescope. Certain spacecrafts like Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2 carry a record with information about Earth and the achievements of the human civiliza- tion. This has been done keeping in mind that if the aliens do happen to come across these spacecrafts, they are able to access detailed and more important- to form Edison-Swan united, which ly, accurate information about our planet easily.

5. Tickle your funny bone A: Unidentified frying objects Q: How do you get a baby alien to sleep? A: You rocket Q: What did the astronaut cook in the pan? Q:What do you get when you cross an alien with something white and fufy? A: A martian-mellow spot ten differences

6. comic story einstien iyengar The Science of Swing Bowling With the Indian Premier League around the corner, the school had organized an interschool premier league, an IPL of their own. Nitin was bowled out by Rubin’s first ball and the ground went mute. "I don’t understand how the ball swung. It was quite unreal. Either he is a really good bowler or the ball is magical." 5

7. Eeshan noticed Rubin’s bowling technique with Nitin and Martin at other matches. Rubin used to keep running his hand over his hair before bowling every ball to the batsman. During the match he also noticed Rubin scuff the seam of the cricket ball. “Nitin, Murthy Sir had applied aerodynamics in class to explain swing bowling. You know, the seam of a cricket ball divides it into two sides, the smooth side and the rough side." Rubbing lubricants like gel on one side makes it smooth. Scuffing the ball makes it rougher. This is called ball tampering. 6

8. A swing is only generated if there is a pressure difference between the two sides of the ball which comes with a minimum speed known as the critical speed. A new ball can be tampered with so that the difference is prominent. Is that why Rubin wears so much hair gel? Possibly! 7

9. They immediately went to Mr. Murthy and then the match referee and told them what was going on. After the neutral referee observed closely what was happening, he declared Rubin's school disqualified. At the celebratory dinner, Eeshan and his friends were sitting with the coach. Good catch Eeshan, even though you are not in the team you played your part well. “He had to, Sir. Eeshan is our 12th man."

10. Pondering Corner Do Aliens Exist? There are more than 1 trillion planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Nobody knows if some of them underwent a climatic and geographical change like Earth and developed conditions favourable for the sustenance of life. There are many instances in history which bring up questions about life outside Earth. Ancient architectural wonders like the Stonehenge in England and Egypt’s pyramid of Giza raise questions. How were the people then, able to make such massive and magnifcent structures with- out any advanced construction tools and knowledge of architectural engineering? The Polynesian island of Easter Island is famous for its 887 giant human fgures also known as ‘Maoi.’ How could the early human beings have built such astonishing structures without any sup- port from someone far intelligent and technologically superior? In many ancient Indian epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata, there is a mention of mythical fying objects called vimanas. Were the writers referring to alien spacecrafts? It is said that Akhenaten, the 10th Pharaoh of Egypt, had an unusually elongated skull, unlike human beings, as shown in paintings and carvings in ancient pyramids. Was he from some other world? According to an ancient legend, King Solomon of Israel had a unique fying vehicle, in which he travelled across the world.

11. On the planet Jupiter, lived an alien named Tilly, with mother and father. The planet was dotted with little families that had lived on Jupiter for generations. There was a fash of light one day and dust began to fy. A large metal object appeared and Tilly let out a scream! Complete the Story... fun facts with Hamlet the Hamster To know or not to know, that is the question! Well, wouldn’t you prefer to know? Facts About Earth Earth gets its name from the 8th century Anglo Saxon word “erda” meaning soil. Planet Earth is not totally round. It is flattened at the North and South poles. The temperature at the centre of the Earth- the Earth’s core- is hotter than the temperature of the surface of the sun, at 7500 K. Earth was initially just composed of hydrogen and helium. Particles from broken stars fell on the Earth and made life on Earth possible. 40,000 dust particles from stars land on Earth every year. We are made of stars!

12. Which Planet Will the Alien Land On? 10

13. The Team Editor Assistant and Copy Editor Aryaa Naik Dalmiya Lavanya Khare Content Contributing Writers Kaniz Fatima Khan Priyanka Garegat Deepti Raavi Ekta Bhatnagar Raunaq Amarnani Rituparna Chatterjee Archana Rajagopal Layout and Design Walmik Pawar Artists Kalpana Siromani Amol Padwal Shailendra Havane Sujith VS Rohini Dusane Bhavini Damani Sitanshu Bhartiya Atul Wankhade Archana Rajagopal Bharat Pillai Tushar Rokade Distribution Digital Marketing Dnyanesh Thombre Prashant Kini Shekhar Ramaiah Creator Jesh Krishna Murthy

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