Ancient knives so sharp they could slit a hair in two, 24-carat gold extracted from cow dung and even 7,000-year-old planes that could travel to other planets. Those are just a couple of the startling claims made at this week’s Indian Science Congress.
The surprising discoveries based on ancient Hindu texts, such as the Vedas and the Puranas, were presented at a session on “Ancient Indian Sciences through Sanskrit,” held for the first time in the history of the Indian Science Congress, which took place for the 102nd time in Mumbai on Sunday.
One of the more controversial lectures, presented by Captain Anand Bodas, a retired principal of a pilot training facility, was dedicated to ancient airplane technology. “There is a reference to ancient aviation in the Rigveda,” Bodas said.
“The basic structure was of 60 by 60 feet, and in some cases, over 200 feet. They were jumbo planes,”Bodas said. “The ancient planes had 40 small engines. Today’s aviation does not know even of a flexible exhaust system.”
The ancient aircraft could not only move in any direction, but travel between planets, Captain Bodas claimed.
NASA scientist Ram Prasad Gandhiraman started an online petition, demanding that the Indian Science Congress to cancel Bodas’s lecture, because it mixed mythology and science. “If we scientists remain passive, we are betraying not only the science, but also our children,” said the petition, which was signed by over 1,000 people. Overall, in the last couple of weeks dozens of scientists slammed the idea to give a platform to “pseudoscience.”
Source: http://rt.com/news/219851-india-science-congress-gems/
