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Thar Desert = Vegas ?

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Idea of the Day - Can we translate or take a small portion of the vast 'Thar Desert' total area  200,000 km 2  (77,000 sq mi) to use for air borne gambling interest? Something similar to the Vegas? Why not is my question. Who has the idea? Blue print-  What;s Parachute got to do with it? -The Chute starts from Manesar Gurgaon or Jaipur and then picks up the punters and players at a super luxury parachute and they play up there. The chute lands at a small designated place and gamble to their heart's content. Rajasthan govt can crack a jackpot if they allow legalized gambling in their vast, arid land.You (investors) can pick the spot, be it near the Rann of Kutch area or near the Aravalli range. Gambling is the world's oldest pass time and Rajasthan (also the source of the Indus Valley Civilization) is absolutely the right spot to begin with something we (Indians) have not dared. Rajasthan attracts almost every third foreign traveller coming to India. Infact...

Google Interactive Doodle -216th Anniversary Of The First Parachute Jump

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Today when I logged in saw an interactive Google doodle to my surprise. The page celebrated 216 th  anniversary of the first parachute jump. French aeronaut André-Jacques Garnerin, on October 22, 1797 was the first person to conduct a parachute jump. The Frenchman’s near historic jump was conducted from a height of 3,200 feet (1,000 metres). Again five years later Mr. André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a height of 8,000 feet (2,440 metres). Silk parachutes were used over two centuries ago. About Garnerin -Born on January 31, 1769 Education- studied physics and became an inspector in the French army in 1793. Death- August 18, 1823.  TIME LINE 1000 B.C.E.-Kite is invented in China. 852 B.C.E.-English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly. 400 B.C.E.-Archytas of Tarentum is reported to have made a steam-propelled pigeon. 1250 A.D. -Roger Bacon, English cleric, writes about mechanical flight. 1485-1500 -Leonardo da Vinci designs flyi...