Back to the Future

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India wins Asia's race to Mars as spacecraft enters orbit.

http://news.yahoo.com/india-mars-missio ... 19634.html

From International Business Times August 16 2012

http://www.ibtimes.com/india-plans-trip ... ere-748151
India Plans Trip To Mars, But Ancients May Have Already Been There

"A Vimana (or flying machine) is also described as "an apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to place or globe to globe."

"Still, given the extreme detail of advanced technologies -- such as air travel, nuclear weapons bomb-making and aerial military battles – provided for in these ancient texts, one must wonder how much of it was fiction, and how much, reality."
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