Research and Stats on Indians in USA..

Good to visit my friend, Sujatha's blog after a long time..

Found this article of specific interest in the context of Indians living in the US.. More than 1.9 million Indian-born immigrants in the US.. we are the third-largest immigrant group here, after Mexicans and Chinese... Interesting! 

There is a good deal of statistics and reports on the Indian immigrant community here.. 

Originally by Monica Whatley, Jeanne Batalova of Migration Policy Institute, this article reports on a wide range of characteristics of Indian immigrants residing in the United States, including the population's size, geographic distribution, admission categories, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Data are from the US Census Bureau's 2011 American Community Survey (ACS), the 2000 Decennial Census (as well as earlier censuses), and the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) (2012 data).

"The nearly 1.9 million Indian immigrants living in the United States in 2011 represented the third-largest immigrant group by country of origin, behind Mexico and China. The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the United States grew from less than 0.5 percent in 1960 to almost 5 percent in 2011.

As a group, immigrants from India are better educated, more likely to have strong English language skills and arrive on employment-based visas, and are less likely to live below the federal poverty line than the overall foreign-born population.... 

In 2011, India was the second most common country of origin for international students at US institutions of higher learning, behind China.

Almost one-third of all Indian immigrants resided in just two states: California and New Jersey.

California had the largest number of Indian immigrants in 2011 (380,700 or 21 percent of the nation's nearly 1.9 million Indian born), followed by New Jersey (210,400, or 11 percent). Other states with Indian immigrant populations greater than 100,000 were Texas (162,400, or 9 percent); New York (145,400, or 8 percent); and Illinois (127,200, or 7 percent).
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- See more at Indian Immigrants in the US

Time Travel?

Now that we are on the topic of space and travel, here is something I came across today (via Huffington Post)..

It seems Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev has spent more time in orbit around the Earth than anyone - 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes

And thanks to Universe Today, we know he is also the most prolific 'time' traveler - he has actually time-traveled into his own future by 0.02 seconds !!

"The calculation relies on Einstein's theories of relativity, which state that the passage of time is relative, and different, for two objects moving at different speeds or experiencing different levels of gravity.

Time dilation is a real effect, and has been demonstrated in experiments conducted first by flying highly accurate atomic clocks around the world on jet aircraft, and later by GPS satellites which have to be reprogrammed daily to counter the effect."

Follow the above link(s) to read more.

PS 1: how many of you seen 'Gravity'?

PS 2: how many of you like to travel in space?

PS 3: how many of you like to travel in space-time?!

Of course, I have watched 'Gravity' and loved it.. And am up for the rest of it on the list.. :)

Mars.. the next stop!!

Hey! there...
I know..!! its been a while..
I have been busy with a few things. Now, hopefully I can get back to blogging more regularly.

Here is something I came across recently..
Interesting stuff!!
Here... Elon Musk of SpaceX (and Tesla fame and a few other things..) makes the case for Mars inhabitation!!!

BTW, this is SpaceX!!