{"id":307772,"date":"2019-01-04T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307772"},"modified":"2019-01-04T19:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:43:13","slug":"indian-science-congress-time-capsule-buried-for-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-science-congress-time-capsule-buried-for-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Science Congress: Time Capsule Buried for 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A Time Capsule with items representing today\u2019s technology and India\u2019s scientific prowess was buried today by Nobel Laureates Avram Hershko from Israel and F.Duncan M. Haldane from the USA on the occasion of the on-going 106th\u00a0Indian Science Congress at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Time Capsule contains 100 items that represent modern-day technology as experienced in India.\u00a0 Besides replicas of\u00a0Mangalyaan, Brahmos Missile and Tejas\u00a0fighter jet representing India\u2019s scientific prowess, the Capsule contains a laptop, landline phone, smartphone, drone, VR glasses, stopwatch, Amazon Alexa etc.\u00a0 It also includes consumer durables like air filter, induction cooktop, air fryer etc which are part of our day-to-day life.\u00a0 Some other products preserved are solar panels, hard disk with the latest documentaries and movies and current science books being used for teaching class 12 students and a mirror-less camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Capsule made by students from various departments of Lovely Professional University was buried at a depth of 10 feet and will remain buried for the next 100 years.\u00a0 A plaque has been erected wherein It has been written that the Time Capsule will be opened on 3rd\u00a0January,\u00a02119.<\/span><\/p>\n

New technological capabilities are being added every few years.\u00a0 The Time Capsule has been developed to represent the\u00a0technology\u00a0know-how as it stands today and will provide an opportunity for future generations to have a glimpse of today\u2019s technology a century later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Time Capsule with items representing today\u2019s technology and India\u2019s scientific prowess was buried today by Nobel Laureates Avram Hershko from Israel and F.Duncan M. Haldane from the USA on the occasion of the on-going 106th\u00a0Indian Science Congress at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar. The Time Capsule contains 100 items that represent modern-day technology as experienced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2009,2913,2014],"tags":[10459,5106,10497,10499],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307775,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307772\/revisions\/307775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}