CULTURAL QA02-2021-16 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 How does a peacockgive birth a baby? A1 BhuvanaRameshwar April 1, 2019 Peacock is a male bird, it doesn'tlay eggs. When peacock and peahenmate, the pea hen lays eggs after the female eggs in her body arefertilised to form fully grown shell covered eggs. Pea hen eggs then hatch after somedays and baby pea birds are born. They may be male peacocks or female peahens. Q2 How has the metrotrain reduced the road traffic in Chennai? A2 NakulSethuram 18-2-2021 Lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India In Chennai, only flyovers arehelping to reduce traffic and it’s called as Flyover capital of India… Now let’s see the Metro’sinvolvement in reducing the traffic. Chennai Metro connects the importanttransportation hubs: Chennai Central, Chennai Egmore, CMBT and Chennai Airport. Places like Anna Nagar andVadapalani got a transit. And metro is being convenient for those who want totravel from North Chennai to the airport and vice-versa. Chennai’s metroridership is low compare to other cities in India because the city is also wellconnected with other transit systems like MRTS and Suburban train, not wellconnected to main areas like Adayar, T Nagar, Beach, North, south and suburbanareas and the cost of theticket is too high. So, Metro doesn't play a major role in reducing the traffic. Phrase 1 of Metro rail project iscompleted and the extension of phrase 1, which is from Airport to Kilambakkamwill begin soon. It willprovide a connectivity to Tambaram and the Future bus stand in Kilambakkam.This extension project may reduce traffic congestion and also provide a goodconnectivity from the city to the suburban. Now phrase 2: It's a proposed one, which's goingto begin soon. It connects major areas like Adayar, T Nagar (shopping street),Solinganallur (IT hub), Madhavaram (Truck terminal and new bus terminal), beachas well as the suburban areas like poonamalle. Phrase 2 and phrase 1 extensionconnects the prominent areas and suburban areas of Chennai, so there is achance to make people utilise the metro. And also, if the Metro takes overthe MRTS, it would connect Velachery too. Update-I read today’s news Metroman MrSreedharan has joined BJP and he may become a minister Q3 What colour surfacereflects no light at all? A3 UmeshPrasad Singh, former Retd Chief Manager (E & M) at Coal India Limited(1982-2014) 20-2-2021 Blacksurface absorbs all seven colours of light and reflects no lightat all and hence it looks black . Q4 What is the differencebetween coach and bogie? A4 SubhasisDutta Roy May 19, 2020 Studied Mechanical Engineering & Pure Science(Graduated 1997) In our normal conversation, we mixup these two words to indicate a railway coach. But actually, they aredifferent. Theportion where wheels are fitted is called bogy and one coach rest on these two bogies. Hereis a picture of the bogie. Apart from this one word similaruse regularly to indicate a railway coach “Compartment”. A compartment is a portion of insidea coach that separates from another portion of a same coach by means of somemanner. Here is picture of what are the compartments actually . Q5 Does it really take aninfinite amount of time for an object to cool down until room temperatureaccording to Newton's Law of cooling? Or is the law just an approximation andbreaks down at infinite? A5 AndrewWalker 20-2-2021 Studied at School of Experience Newton’sLaw of Cooling is stated T(t)=Ts+(To-Ts)e^-kt. When you look at the standardgraph of this equation you can see the Temperature approaches 0 as t goesto infinity. So, in a way, yesit “never” gets to room temperature in a mathematical sense (the t-axisis an asymptote). However, for all practical purposes you can approximatepretty well at what time the objects and the room are matched in temperature. Q6 In Sweden at night,why do many homes leave the blinds open and put candles and lamps in thewindows? A6 ChrisEbbert November 24-2020 Lives in Sweden I also used to wonder about thatwhen I first started coming to Sweden. Over the years, I’ve come to understandit’s a surprisingly complex thing. Now that I live here, I do it, too. It may appear wasteful, but it’snot. The bulbs used for thesetypical window lights have always been low powered, and in a country thatrelies as heavily on hydro power as Sweden does, the nationalconscience has traditionally been quite clear about letting those 95% of theenergy an incandescent bulb consumes contribute to the home heating effort, anddedicating the remainder to good causes as I will try to speculate on below. These days, it’s all LED, ofcourse. I use 1.6W bulbs. Here’s what I think it’s for: it’s a Swedish tradition to contribute to a sort of “pretty city image”by having little lights in the windows; it literally lights up thestreet, makes the place lived in, and friendly. When I’m in Germany, with itsdrawn curtains or lowered blinds, the streets at night just seem dead,deserted, and the houses seem to say “keep out”. In Sweden, it’s very much theopposite. The Swedes are a very communal people; seeing signs of life in theneighbour’s house reassures them that they are not alone, and it is myimpression that many leave their lights on “for their neighbours”;havinglights on in the house is a security measure, making the house look occupied. Ialso feel safer when they are on when I’m not home. Maybe that’s just commonsense. Windows are what the light usually shines in through during the day;during the dark season, it makes sense to have lamps in the windows tomaintain those dynamics. I have a little lamp in every window, too, and itseems to create an illusion of daylight if one chooses to see it that way. Itsatisfies the home owner to have a cosily lit home to return to in the darkmonths.it actually makes the house look better, and beauty is a big dealhere. Sweden is very much about visual beauty, and lights are an excellent wayto achieve it. Q7 What is the strangestarchaeological discovery of ancient technology? A7 RiteshKumar Mishra September 4-2020 Senior Executive at Health (2018–present) People consider symbol of love isTajMahal.I consider -Khajuraho Temple Built between 950-1050 CE by theChandela dynasty, Khajuraho Temples are one of the most important specimens ofthe Indian art. These set of Hindu and Jain temples took around a hundred yearsto take shape. Q8 Why does the Meenakshigoddess have a parrot? A8 AkshayMallikarjun November 27-2020 Artist ParrotSymbolise love and Friendship. Parrot is the only bird which canable to talk like Humans. GoddessMeenakshi (Parvati) showing her love towards husband Lord Shiva in the formParrot . It's not Ordinary Parrot , its aDivine Parrot. Goddess Parvati commonly depicted with Parrot in her right Hand Q9 What are the bitterfacts expressed by Chanakya? A9 RiteshKumar Mishra February 11-2021 Philosophy · Keen to share philosophic topics There are many facts expressed byAcharya Chanakya, but the one I am writing is more powerful, more imminent inour life and it has shown us the reality. “He who has wealth has friends.” Q10 Did Lord Krishna or anyother god ever cry over a person or material thing? A10 ShraddhaSingh 16-2-2021 Śrī Krishna · Jai shree krishna Krishna cried when —He was a baby 😐 ( likenormal babies) WithRadha ma , bearing the separation 😭😭 Whileleaving Vrindavan 😖😖😖 Deathof Abhimanyu 😢😢 Whenhe was in indraprastha , and he was leaving his sister , Shubhadra 😩😩😩😩 These are the moments I can recall 🤔 Edit : One more moment-When sudama came to Dwarka with ahandful of rice for him Q11 What is the mostconfusing element on Earth? A11 PurviSharma, I've been reading books based on science and nature a lot 16-2-2021 Chemically, the silicates are very complicated and not muchprogress was made in understanding until a structural classification wasdevised. The most common "structural element" is thesilicon/oxygen tetrahedron. The simplest structural class of silicates consistsof those compounds (minerals) which consist of isolated single tetrahedra - theNesosilicates. Q12 What are the naturaldisasters that made human life worse? A12 4 Answers 1Arun Bapat, former Head, Earthquake Engineering Research at Central Water andPower Research Station, Pune, India (1980-2… ) 19-2-2021 The answer to your question lies inthe question itself. A natural disaster is that act of nature which adverselyaffect the normal / routine functioning of human being. All natural disasters have a a critical potential tocause adverse effect on human being. 1.0 Earthquake of magnitude M = 6.0or more 2.0 River Flood causes heavy damageand destructions when it crosses the flood line and enters habitat. 3.0 Lightning causes damages inlimited area and the occurrence is very sudden 4.0 Tsunami causes very heavydamages provided the height of tsunami waves is higher then 1.0 meter or so 5.0 Dust storm the damage is smalland it lasts for less than 45 to 60 minutes. In the area of frequent Dust storm there is high percentageof persons suffering from cataract, glucoma and other eye diseases 6.0 Heat and Cold Waves adverselyaffect poor strata of society who cannot afford to have proper clothing andother protective equipment. I think the list could be extendedfor several other disasters such as agricultural, a medical, social healthareas etc. 2Srinivas Charlu, former Faculty at Ace Creative Learning Private Limited(2009-2012) 20-2-2021 There have been many large volcaniceruptions over the centuries that have had huge impact on the global climatefor up to three years after the eruption. These events have caused largescale famines across the globe; the most recent case being the explosion ofTambora ( in Sumatra) in 1814 or so. Other major eruptions in Iceland around1000 years ago similarly bringing about famines or the events surrounding thedisasters accompanying Justinian plague in the 6th century AD. 3 Sandhya Chougule, Studying bsc ( physics)at Ramnarain ruia autonomous college 20-2-2021 The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake, orHuaxian earthquake is the deadliest earthquake in recorded history. According to imperial records,approximately 830,000 people lost their lives. It occurred on the morning of 23January 1556 in Shanxi, during the Ming Dynasty. More than 97 counties in theprovinces of Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu andAnhui were affected. Buildings were damaged slightly in the cities of Beijing,Chengdu, and Shanghai. An 840-kilometre-wide (520 mi) area was destroyed, andin some counties as much as 60% of the population was killed.Most of thepopulation in the area at the time lived in yodongs artificial caves in loesscliffs; these collapsed in great numbers, causing many casualties. 4Kushal Rai 20-2-2021 A natural disaster that occurred inChina in July 1931 was one of most deadliest disaster ever happened. On August 18, 1931, the YangtzeRiver in China peaks during a horrible flood that kills 3.7 million peopledirectly and indirectly over the next several months. This was perhaps theworst natural disaster of the 20th century. The Yangtze River runs throughsouthern China, one of the most populated areas on Earth. All the above QA are based onQuora digest to me on 20-2-2021. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on20-2-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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