The Most Unscientific Thoughts From The India Science Congress
At the 102nd edition of the Indian Science Congress inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 3 , the pseudoscience was much more prominent. The invited Nobel laureate delegates witnessed some of the craziest claims made by event speakers.
1. India had 40-engine inter-planetary planes
Not one, but 40. And that too planes that skipped from planet to planet.
2. Water autopsies
We’re clearly backward for cutting open a dead body for an autopsy. According to these guys, ancient medical science had dead bodies float in water for days, and the swelling would be great for a more accurate report.
3. We made electric batteries thousands of years ago
No we didn’t. But some folks say that the ancient text Agastya Samhita mentions how to make one. We wonder why didn’t they actually demonstrate a Vedic battery at the event?
4. A magic paste with cow urine (what else) and other stuff
An ‘Engineering applications of ancient Indian botany’ paper mentioned paste using seeds and roots mixed with cow’s urine that could be applied to your feet to divine underground water sources.
5. There’s a lot more stuff on pilots and planes too
1. the material you needed to make a plane (where are these planes, by the way?)
2. What a pilot should eat? The “milk of buffalo, cow and sheep.
3. What a pilot should wear? According to ancient science, something that was “virus-proof, water-proof and shock-proof”. Which is apparently “clothes made out of vegetation grown underwater.”
4. That we hit the skies 8 years before the Wright brothers did. The world’s first pilot? SB Talpade. (Who?)
5. “25 types of viruses in the atmosphere which attack the human skin, bones and the whole body”. (So clearly skydiving was impossible without dying of infection!)
6. Radar technology known as “rooparkanrahasya “
[/B]6. A bacteria that turns food into gold. Not poop, gold[/B]
And guess which animal? The cow!
7. Star Wars literally happened
Everything that we saw on Sunday morning Mahabharata literally happened. And, one of those crazy Vedic plans actually flew to Mars, where now there’s a helmet lying as evidence.
"If you don't believe me, will you believe the National Aeronautics and Space Association (NASA) of the USA? If you search on Google for 'helmet on Mars', it will tell you that even NASA has found this helmet on Mars and it will give you evidence for it." Is what a molecular biology professor told Scoll.in
8. Sugar sealed Lord Ganesha's elephant head to his human torso
Yup, sugar. Not stitches. Not skin transplants. But the stuff that goes in your chai.
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