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Archiving your memories before the goodbye to Orkut

Goodbye to Orkut
The 90's kids are all nostalgic again. Guess why now? After Cartoon Network turned CN, Dragon BallZ got replaced with Chota Bheem, Maruti800 productions stopped and Microsoft took away suppport from Windows XP, this mature generation has to say adieu to yet another close friend. Yes Orkut is finally leaving us all on 30th September, 2014 as Google finally shuts it down.


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The Problem Scenario

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Internet as we know it, is perhaps the best thing that could ever happen to mankind. It is one of the best applications of mathematics, physics and engineering disciplines for a conjoint purpose that in itself gives an impulse to the growth of every other field including the very ones named above; and the only reason its possible is because it has given a new dimension to information sharing. This new epoch in the field of information sharing is broadly because of two factors:


  1. The mere presence of features of data hosting and sharing by organisations and individuals alike which has developed a data pool like no other in both quantitative and qualitative aspects. We can find almost every variety of information we need in more than one flavor and version today.
  2. The fast access and retrieval of such requisite information at momentous speeds compared to a decade ago.

Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion

YAMATO 1 - First Magnetohydrodynamic propulsion based boatMHD propulsion is a revolutionary type of propulsion system that doesn't use propellers to power ships and submarines but instead uses a magnetic force on the current. The method eliminates motors, drive shafts, gears as well as propellers, so it proposes to be a low-noise system with great reliability at low cost. 


YAMATO1 was the first such boat ever made to make use of this revolutionary technology. It was built in the early 1990s by Mitsubishi heavy industries Ltd. and was driven by liquid helium-cooled superconductors and could travel at 15 km/h or 8 knots.