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not bad:huh::huh:

I am not happy for the naming of bridge as Adams bridge, bcoz this bridge was built by lord Rama & hence the name should be RAMA bridge.

Once that is proven, I guess it might get renamed.

it shd be named as SRI RAMA BRIDGE…

Ofcourse it is of the old indian age, the bridge was constructed. But it is now, in the english age, the bridge was “discovered” and named as “ADAM”.

we have this bad habbit to fight and disscuss names we must be very happy that nasa knowinglly or unknowinglly proving that hindu religon was the oldest and more scientifically sound religon of the world:beam:

i really agree with ravi shanker hindu should stop wasting time to disscuss names they shold start adding facts and try to prove that god rama and ramayana is not a mythology which some of ther bunch of idots think off:smartass:

Don’t get so excited boys. Never believe a story is fact unless it comes it comes from the mouth of the reported source to begin with. See
http://www.punjabilok.com/science/nasa_debunks.htm

just read like an indian………………….
i’am really proud of being an indian,thats always i’am.but know there is a stronger reason to be
as i’am the orgin of worlds oldest skilled people
who have the correct proportion of knowledge and
wisdom.

it is almost without doubt, that this bridge is THE one. i was recently reading about the correct estimates of ramayan and mahabharath. nothing is as factual and scientific as the hindu civilization

this could be wrong..or it could be right…and if it is true, there is no harm in calling it one of the ‘wonders of the world’!!

the picture view is not available this is the sign that world is becoming aware that our hindu relign is not a myth but proven reality. there is no other reason that the picture is not available to view now.

It is a big surprise that none of the Indian News media gave this discovery a big importance.

Hindu religion is the only one who has given proofs of its ancient records(described in BHAGWAT GEETA). Discovey of mathura is another such example.

The bridge was not built in Treta Yuga, but it is only 3500 years old.

http://varnam.org/blog/archives/2004/05/ramas_bridge.html

hey dudes who cares about the name! As long as we no wot we belive is true leave it as it is!!

Man sometimes religion can be sooooooooooooo
debilitating! To think you guys swallowed the story hook, line and sinker!
AND the Indus civilisation is one of the oldest civilisations NOT the oldest. People did YOU NOT take history in school ..or are we still relying on daadi’s stories?????

To be exact it is the Sumerian civilisation that is the oldest. And the fact that we rely on scriptures…isn’t it time we acknowledged that they maybe based on groundless facts..that in fact they are pretty fascinating pieces of FICTION?Or am I the clueless one?

Why is it that only hindu religion is the one which is questioned? “Mother T” I suppose tht Christ was not a myth, according to u. The shit bout “guiding star” and preservation of “st Francis” corpse because he was a “Holy” man is true(if it is we have to change the defination of holy). And then again, if according to you if “our” scriptures are fake, discovery of the bridge is a proof tht they are not.

bull shit…….. the joining of the two countries will cause a chain reaction that will make sri lankans endemic…. india is too big and strong…. sri lanka is too puni and small…. we will on be there in a while… bad idea……….

Rohithe, whats yr point?

Or maybe ‘Mother T’ stills believes and clings to the ‘Aryan Invasion’ theory. Oh why do we have an excess of Leftist idealogists amongst our midst???

well i remember its an old discovery ive heard for say bout in 2002 where theres a date mentioned by u u y comment to name it in 2004 hey give me hints!! lol

The Ramayana bridge’s photos can be seen in this link

http://gauranga.org/ramayana_bridge.htm

woooohhaaaaah….thts quite an achievement…!
This wud do a gr8 lot of contribution to the “Fact ” tht has beeen evading the pple since ages.It is a gr8 development for the newage to advance into the next age.I hope the progress is quick and fast so tht the greateness of INDIA is revealed to the world.

Religion is the worst thing ever invented by humans! It has caused more wars and pain and suffering than anything else in this world. This is why I think all religion is silly. People that believe in religion are silly

For those who do’nt believe it ,I say that NASA has admitted the pictures to be their…the bridge starts at a point near “Rameshwaram”,which is mentioned in “Ramayan” as the starting point of the bridge made by “Vanar Sena” of Lord Ram….This can not be a mere coincident,if you believe it to be just a natural construction
:beam:

I guess there’s no end to the theories of which civilization is ancient. For one thing, none of us saw which one’s the oldest ;) so lets not vent out and fight on “who’s ancient” and wether its true or not.

There are a lot of things that point out the goodness of the people who lived on this land, and lets be proud of it. Most part of history is unaccounted, so mythology sits there. That shouldn’t mean that all of mythology should be dryly waved off as false. That would probably be a stupid thing to do. Also, let us not categorise this one for religion, as ‘Ramayana’ is more of an epic than a religious text if you look at it closely. Religion probably adapted it as there was reference to ‘goodness’ and ‘adarsha’ in the epic.

Anyways, links of more images from the JSC Library of NASA:

• http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS033&roll=74&frame=74
• http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS033&roll=78&frame=73

Also, check my post on this same topic…
http://www.hpnadig.net/blog/index.php/archives/2005/02/08/the-ramayana-bridge/

cheers!

I am searching that GOD is there or NOT ?. But after seeing this BRIDGE , i am thinking that there is GOD… After seeing that SUNAMI ……….

Good photo

It is nice to know about this image which proves that Ramayana really ‘happened’. But we Indians should take it as a challenge and learn / study more about the advanced/scientific progress that our ancestors had done and we should try to find more about universe and its implications on Mankind with this knowledge. I am sure it will be much easier for us than any outsider coming in and studying our culture! Right ..?

hey ppl instead of wastin time here posting our opinion y dont we mail this matter to vishwa hindu parshad or any other hindu organisation so that the bridge matter is known to the entire india n then the world!

how dare to name the bridge as adams bridge my foot,nasa found know but through our elders we already knew it.It was rama’s bridge..It is rama’s bridge..and It shall be rama’s bridge till end of this world.

Jai Sri Ram.

If Earth Is true, Ramayam is true

If Sun is great, Hindu Religion is great.

Jai Sri Ram

every1 knows this its a same bridge that ram made, then why the hell its adam bridge..who is this adam?Nasa is suck….kick usa’s candy ass!!

ADAM’S(RAMA’s) BRIDGE ABOUT TO BE LOST FOREVER !!!

The recent SethuSamudram Project initiated today plans to create a maritime channel through the Palk Straight. Dreging is about to begin. And alongwith it, Rama’s Bridge would go.

It is very hard to carry the facts to next generation. we don’t know what happen exactly before the christ. even Bible also undergone changes eventhough it was happen just 2000 years back. So how we can’t expect a detailed episode about what happen before 170,000.000. Even you kept detialed copy it may not be long last. In this situations past will be carried out time to time by oral communication. which sometimes proves “fairytales” after a milllions of years. we can believe past eventhough there is no written evidences, if we find coincidents betweeen past and present like “Adams bridge”. If we don’t consider these matters and don’t do the detail studies, we never know what happend in the past.

Hey, if we were a great sceintific culture, how could a handful of men come 16000 kms by small boats (from england), conquer, enslave and make us bakras??

We should be proud to be born in the land of Rama. The bridge has to be named right so that the future generation also gets to know this. It will be nice if somebody can relate the features of the bridge to ramayana and rule out any sort of doubts.

Here is the report from HindustanTimes. I think it tells the story. Guys, go back to school. Common sense is something clearly missing in these religios fanatics.!!
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NASA poured cold water on claims by Hindu news services that the US agency’s spaceborne cameras had discovered the remains of the mythical bridge built by Rama across the Palk Strait.

“Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen,” said NASA official Mark Hess.

NRI websites like Indolink.com and the Vaishnava News Network had run a story earlier this week saying that “space images taken by NASA” had revealed “a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait.” The story gained currency when it was picked up, unquestioningly, by the PTI.

NASA said the mysterious bridge was nothing more than a 30 km long, naturally-occuring chain of sandbanks called Adam’s bridge. Hess said his agency had been taking pictures of these shoals for years. Its images had never resulted in any scientific discovery in the area.

The Internet story further claimed “archaeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to…about 1.75 million years ago” as does the age of the bridge. This, in turn, matched the age when the events of the Ramayana took place.

Historian B.D. Chattopadhyay of Jawaharlal Nehru University says the archaeological record says nothing of the sort. There is no evidence of a human presence in the subcontinent, he says, before roughly 250,000 to 300,000 years ago. It is generally believed man’s hominid ancestors did not leave their African home until about two million years ago.

At least three ship channels have been dug through Adam’s Bridge without any evidence of manmade construction. The sandbanks are not at a greater depth, never being more than 3 or 4 feet at high tide. Geologists believe the sandbank did at one time rise above sealevel.

Temple records suggest it was submerged by a violent storm as recently as 1480.

Communication experts say that false, suspect news finds much greater circulation than normal because of the internet. NASA’s Hess said, “The images reproduced on the websites may well be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours.”

Source: Hindustantimes.com

It wasfun reading all this. All I can say is that it is possible that this bridge was built by Rama and even the idea that hindu religion is the oldest and all. But isn’t it disappointing that people like are fighting over the name of this bridge and some people even getting furious about this. Just chill if it is true it is or else ….
But stop wasting ur time in proving something that has happened in the past. Don’t live in the past. Live in the present think about future. Work towards developing our country. I am really sad that we have such a good history and culture and still we are not as developed as other countries. Ever thought if our ancesters were so developed, why aren’t we? Isn’t it a shame that a culture who are one among the oldest and which was so well developed is lagging behind today. People are just dying in India and it is still called a developing nation rather than a deveoped nation.
Stop fighting over this silly topic. What do you wannna prove that hindu religion is great so what. Prove that you are great not the religion. Prove that our country is great not just hindu culture.
And if it makes you filthy fanatic guys happy, I present to you the Worlds Oldest and Greastest Religion award along with the most Dirtiest nation Award. Congrats.

Shanti says: Kaushy, you might want to try being a little more civilized in your comments in the future - this one came awfully close to not being approved.

undoubtedly this bridge was built during tretayuga that is why it has to be named as rama bridge. why should we call it as adams bridge

Hi Folks,

Lets not fight over religion. Religion should be a integrating factor, not a dividing one. At the same time, we, as Hindus, should be allowed to respect our culture and practice it as the Gita allows us to be.

Probably, they may come a time in the history of mankind, when, as we debate whether the bridge existed or not, men will debate the existence of sciences such as Vedic Mathematics.

We Hindus should, no doubt should be proud of our colorful past, but should protect the culture by following Hindu traditions and values in our daily life and especially in our family life, just as the Muslims practice Quaran in their daily and family lives.

Regards

Lord Rama did built a bridge. So we should think to find any evidence of that bridge. These images can be the one of that bridge. So furthur investigation should be carried on to reach the bottom of the matter. I am sure that the bridge is the one built by Lord Rama.

Hello all humans
Some people say to keep quit about this issue. How is it possible?. Always truth should win what ever may be the topic, situation.
I think whole anciant indian history needs to be rewritten. I mean, Now what we know is foriegners discovers about our country/religion. Here please all should note that our anciant country means religion only because there were no invations from others on us at that time.
As maqsmullar says vedic religion starts from 5000 yrs back only.So now all our indians also scaling every thing from that scale only.
Macksmullar said aryans are migrated from europe, some indians opposed it like tilak etc.. eventhough macksmullar concepts are printed on books so we are reading those things only..
So what I feel is whole indian history needs to be rewritten…

So in this Ram’s bridge issue they are telling it as Adam’s bridge if it is printed in books then a new history will be created like……
So they/we should name/call it as Rama bridfe only.Because if we search for proof also we wont get any names like this bride is built by this person practicly on any things in sea. So as it is clearly stated in ramayan and bhagavadgeeta they/we shold take it as a proof and rename it as ramabrige ..

Don’t forget that histroy is a stepping stone for future..

Murthy
babumurthy@rediffmail.com

Nobody built a bridge you dumbos. India and Sri Lanka were once connected by large land mass that got submerged after the last ice age. Where do you think all the huge mammals in Sri Lanka came from? The same identical species found in India.

Just because there is a line of shoals and islands does that mean there was a bridge there once? You mean it couldn’t just be a natural ocurrence after the sea level rose? Stoopid simplistic reasoning. So did this Rama guy also build a bridge in Florida that are now known as the Florida Keys? After all the keys are also in a nice neat line. BWAHAHAHAHAHA