Thursday, October 23, 2008

[story] strong beaks

Once upon a time there lived a bird called CK in the city of madurai. She was so intelligent that she could complete all her day to day activities in less than an hour. So she had a free time of almost 552 hrs per day. I know you would ask how it will be 552. Considering that she can do her 24 hrs job in 1 hr, she will have 552 normal bird hrs free per day. All these calculations are made relative to today's time.

She decided that she should do something and avoid wasting time. She always wished to visit different parts of the world. So, packing the required food she started flying across the world. In almost two normal bird months she visited three countries in two different continent. She got to know about many birds from many places. And then she returned home. From her experience over this two months, she has gained a lot of knowledge.

Same once upon a time there lived another bird called LA. He was so lazy when compared to CK that he had only 422 hrs of free time per day. In last two months he did nothing other than eating, sleeping and being idle. He use to be so jealous of CK as she is very active. But somehow he like his way of life and continued. Though CK doesn't like LA, she always believed at his capabilities to handle though situations.

When CK returned after her trip, both LA and CK went for dinner together. CK was very happy to explain all her experience. Then she started the worst things she learned during the trip. She told that the planet will be destroyed soon. LA came to the edge of his seat and listened. She explained various situations across the planet which could lead to destruction. As the discussion got hot, each of them picked a dinosaur with their beaks.

One such reason for destruction of world is that a mighty tailed star would rush through the entire universe in next six months. It would burn any body whose volume is greater than 10000 cubic kilo meter. This includes the planet itself. However if it is less than 1000 cubic kilo meter in volume, that star would not do anything. Someone has to save the lives of the planet. Who will do?

After a long discussion, LA came up with a spontaneous plan to save the planet. It looked pretty decent and there seemed to be no other option. The plan was carve out equal sized blocks from the planet which is less than 10000 cubic kilo meter and throw them into the universe. The speed and the direction of throwing should be more calculative that these blocks get together after the mighty tailed star finishes its job (after thousands of years).

CK and LA did not have any time for the planning and the design phase. They decided to do it themself, as it will be difficult to explain the situation and the plan to other birds. Also no one would belive, like today. CK and LA decided to start of from madurai itself. LA started off. He opened his beak wide. Having madurai as the center of his beak, he carved out a big block out of the planet. He then threw it into the universe. He turned and smiled at CK with pride. CK moved her beak left and right and turned quickly.

OK. Now CK continued the same job towards south of madurai and LA doing his job north. They carved out all the pieces from the planet and threw them into the space. As CK threw the last block, both of them were free floating on the universe without any gravitational pull. Both of them looked at each other and smiled. They had a big satisfaction of saving all the lives of the planet. They know that one day all the pieces would join together and the life would sustain in the planet.

They were very tired. They dint even have a dinosaur to eat. As they were thinking if they have done the right job, the mighty tailed star came and burnt them :(
5000 years later, the Earth got created.

3 comments:

  1. You have to do a lot of explaining here :). Answer all the questions. None of the questions is optional.

    1) What is the explanation for the name CK and LA? I am sure you had something in your mind.

    2) The volume of the earth is 1.8*(10^12) cubic km. If both of the birds are killed by the star, it means their volume is greater than that. So, they should have been 1*(10^4) cubic km in volume which is soooo massive. From Kashmir to Kanyakumari it is about 3k km. So, how was the earth holding such big birds? For them Dinosaurs will be like bacterias, isn't it :) ?

    3) There is no way they belonged to Madurai. You should have told they belonged to Asia or America?

    4) With a single swing, she might have been able to complete the journey around the world.

    I could almost feel how much you are angry on me :). Sorry da... but I just want to know whether I am getting what you are about to say. Please explain. Please open our eyes :) (I am hearing people shouting "enna **** (bad words) ku ippadi aaraaichi paanurennu..." but how else I can prove that I am a fan of your stories?

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  2. Hi amu,
    2-4) For who wants logical reasoning like amudhan, there is One typo in the story - its 1000 and not 10000 or whatever that would give proper resoning.

    1) CK and LA are just names, for you. Otherwise I would have defitely told you. For me it could be whatever.

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  3. Story is good. konjam, konjam puriyudhu; konjam puriyala!. . Sounds like an algorithm you had submitted for patent :)

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