Largest And Smallest Area - Puzzle

A triangle has a parameter of 50cm.

What is the maximum and minimum area of such a triangle..

Neerja Bhanot flight 73 Pan Am - Horoscope

I  was looking at the horoscope of Neerja. She had 

• Sun in own house
• Mars vargottama in own nakshatra
• Mercury retrograde in exaltation
• Jupiter retrograde in own house
• Saturn retrograde in own house

And yet she died at the age of 23. How does one account for this?

Review of the movie here.

The next similar one is that of Qandeel Baloch - real name Fauzia Azeem, a Pakistani model who was "honor killed" by her brother at the age of 25.

This lady had:

• Saturn and Mars in vargottama in Sagittarius
• Moon vargottama in Aries
• Sun vargottama in Aquarius
• Sun and Jupiter in Rahu's nakshatra
• Powerful Venus in Capricorn in rasi (Aquarius amsa)

Display The Heights

Let's imagine the scenario of a man jumping from a plane from an altitude of 10,000m and determined how long it would take him to reach sea level.

Now, assume two men are jumping at the same time (one in earth and one in moon) from 10,000m altitude one in earth and one in moon.

They will reach sea level (0m) at different times because the gravitational acceleration is different in the two planets. At any point in time (during their “flight”) their heights over the respective planet’s sea level will be different.

Display this difference in heights over the earth’s and moon’s surface in a graph. (distance from earth as X axis and from moon as Y axis)

Buy One Get One Free

What is the difference between "buy one get one free" and "buy two get two free" (you would have seen such offers in shops)?

The Fraud

A friend and I were discussing about Krishna (Hindu God) when she asked me why I think Krishna is a fraud.

I explained. If the CFO of a listed company plays the stock market before public announcement of the company's results we call it insider trading - a fraud.

Krishna knew everything that was going to happen upfront and guided things to happen that way. imagine if Perry Mason, the successful lawyer, won because he was also the judge. Krishna was like that.

Krishna made it seem that Mahabharat was a war between good and evil. And that the rules were fair and that he was only a charioteer and not an active participant (not a judge but only, say, a bailiff in the court), He wanted to show that good triumphs in a fair war against evil.

But he participated...and how...He was David Warner for the Pandavas.

If you play a game where you (and only you) largely control the outcome also through means that aren't kosher then you are a fraud. Reminds me of the owner of Chennai SuperKings. And the team was dissolved...

Additional reading: 

• http://vbala99.blogspot.in/2015/03/krishna-and-kalyavan.html
• http://calmisc.blogspot.com/2014/10/krishna-villain.html