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Vehicle horns could power space travel

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Intergalactic space travel and idlies 20th March Times of India Waltair Musings !GQK comes visiting The other day I met my old friend !GQK from the galaxy next door.  He took the wormhole express from planet Gliese 581g and appeared in my guest room quite suddenly. He was tired.  He switched on his universal translator and lamented “I traveled economy class; the universal cash crunch is hitting all us researchers”. After he had got over his space-lag and got used to our local gravity we went down to that vegetarian restaurant on VIP Road. He has been visiting officially once every 10 Earth Years and the first thing he does is enjoy some idly with several chutneys and sambar. Over breakfast we discussed the purpose of his visit this time. Research “I am here to study Vizag’s driving habits” he explained. “We at The Galactic Institute have watched the huge increase in vehicular traffic in Vizag and my boss wanted me to verify the reports that we have ...