Pranam Many write ups are highly repetitive within a short period , memory not counted KR IRS
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 at 04:45, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 < [email protected]> wrote: > *CULTURAL QA 08-2021-10* > > *Being a compilation there may be errors* > > *Q1 Why is Oman a silent country?* > > *A1 Pete Rodrigues Works at Self-Employment Updated July 8* > > *Actually Islam is generally not studied by many non muslims. Even I was > not interested that much.* > > *Oman is home to Ibadis. We all know that Islam has two branches ie. Sunni > and Shia but not queit so.* > > *It has three branches Sunni, Shia, Ibadi.* > > *Sunnis follow all four caliphate or successors.* > > *Shia follow only one Ali with his Family.* > > *Ibadi follow only two caliphate or sucessors.* > > *Ibadi are really peaceful people though in history Oman ruled over many > countries and had slaves but it was only Royal Ambitions. They have no > problem with Christians, Jews or even any faith. I was travelling in > Zanzibar in Ramzan and many Ibadhi families insisted on making food for me > even though they were fasting. They don’t get internal thoughts if they see > your cross or jewish skull cap or hindu signs on forehead. * > > *Something little deep, Western secret service/intelligence always give > green light for Mosque funded by Omanis.* > > *Both Sunnis and Shias despise Ibadis. Similarly Christianity has also > Oriental Christians which very few know.* > > *P.S A Wahabi or Salafi (both Sunni) also will give food to non muslim in > Ramzan/Ramadan. There are** many incidents where wanderers lost and > approached Mosque in Ramzan/Ramadan.* > > *Also currently there is no Ibadi terrorist organisation. So this speaks a > lot.* > > *Q2 On Quora, can you answer your own question? Is it bad form > to answer your own question?* > > *A2 Gopalkrishna Vishwanath I have been a member of Quora since > July 2015Mon (128 words. 45 seconds to read)* > > *Yes, it is possible and Quora encourages it too. It is certainly not > weird. Ignore anyone who says so.* > > *Answering your own question is particularly welcome if no** one has > answered and you have found the answer.* > > *It is good to share it.* > > *In addition, there are many questions that don’t ask for information or > don’t have just one unique correct answer. Many questions ask for sharing > of opinions or experiences. Such questions allow several answers. The more > the merrier.* > > *Feel free to chip in with your own opinion or experience.* > > *I do it often. Quora does not mind and no rule or policy is violated if > you do so. Never mind anyone who questions this practice. I have personally > verified from Quora that answering one’s own question is perfectly okay.* > > *Q3 How do I use an electric toothbrush without liquid going > everywhere?* > > *A3 3 Answers BriAnswered Mon* > > *liquid? like the toothpaste? if so apply the toothpaste add water put the > toothbrush in your mouth and turn it on so that it becomes foam so it won’t > splash everywhere. idk.* > > *2ND ANSWER- Jamie Moore, Website Designer (2017-**present) Answered Sat* > > *Wet the bristles for a second then apply a small amount of toothpaste. > The amount of toothpaste used in advertisements is too much. Then place the > toothbrush in your mouth before you turn it on.* > > *3RD ANSWER- Asgarali , lives in Oshawa, ON (2016-**present)Answered > Sat* > > *Don't start it till it's in your mouth. Don't take it out of your mouth > unless it's turned off.* > > *Q4 Why are mirrors transparent?* > > *A4 2 Answers Darshini Patil, Architect Answered 3m ago* > > *A mirror is an opaque object which does not allow light** passes through > it. The light cannot pass through the mirror from one side to the other > side. But we can clearly see the image of an object when it is placed in > front of the mirrors due reflection of light. This doesn't mean that the > mirror is a transparent object.* > > *Q5 If a person lost their hair because they ended up homeless > and were only able to shower once a week for months will their hair ever > come back?* > > *A5 Mats Andersson Translator (1991–present) Sat* > > *Whatever the reason for the hair loss was, it had nothing to do with > “only showering once a week". As late as the 1940s, few Europeans washed > their entire bodies any more often than that. Washing your hair more than > weekly was uncommon until the 1960s. You can go for years not washing or > combing your hair; all that happens is that you get a sort of > dreadlock-looking hair. * > > *The hair loss could have something to do with bad nutrition, high levels > of stress (very likely if you're** homeless), or a medical condition. It > could be the result of chemotherapy for cancer, quite unrelated to > homelessness. Or it could just be age. * > > *Some of those mechanisms will let the hair grow back again; some will > not.* > > *Q6 **Are plants really as deadly as people think?* > > *A6 Aidan Doherty Answered 34m ago* > > *Depends on the plant, but some species can kill you stone dead if you eat > the wrong part of them** and some** are harmful to humans even if you’re > just in their proximity.* > > *Q7 If India was so rich in spices, why are all of our meals > today incomplete without chili (new world spice)?* > > *A7 Anbazhagan Ambrose M.Phil. in Literature & Linguistics, > Jawaharlal Nehru University (Graduated 2000)17h ago* > > *Before Chilly arrived, we had two options - black pepper and long pepper. > They are more pungent than hot.* > > *Let us consider this.* > > *50 grams of long pepper is about Rs. 120, whereas red chilly would be Rs. > 10 or so.* > > *If long pepper costs this much now with all the advances in > transportation, imagine what it would have cost then. I think it would have > been a luxury item for commoners.* > > *Problem with long pepper and black pepper - it predominantly grew only in > Kerala = monopoly = expensive. But chilly could be grown anywhere, hence > inexpensive and readily available to the masses.* > > *India was not rich in spices, it was present Kerala that was rich in > spices as evidenced in Roman records. Almost all their spice trade was with > Kerala/TN region.* > > *If chilly did not come, Kerala would have amassed massive wealth :)* > > *So let us thank Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama for cutting down > our spice bills.* > > *Q8 a joint SB account in SBI have separate CIF numbers for > both partners?* > > *A8 Kanthaswamy Balasubramaniam Lawyer Sat* > > *One Customer One CIF* > > *So for a Joint account you will have a Primary CIF of one customer and > the second customers CIF will be linked to the account.* > > *So a Joint A/c has One Primary CIF and other CIFs linked to it.* > > *Address, Phone numbers of the Primary CIF will apply* > > *Q9 Why do monsoons bring so many mosquitoes in India?* > > *A9 Good knight India's largest household insecticide brand. Updated > July 21* > > *Goodknight, India's largest household insecticide brand. Updated July 21* > > *India has a tropical climate which is conducive for mosquitoes to thrive > in. To add to that, monsoon brings with it 3 months of rainfall that makes > the weather favourable for mosquito breeding. * > > *After it rains, water gets collected in gutters, potholes, water bodies > and other open surfaces. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water > leading** to a rise in their** population during monsoons.* > > *Did You Know? Mosquitoes lay as many as 100 eggs at a time.* > > *However, what many people don’t take into consideration is that their own > homes could also be breeding grounds for mosquitoes.* > > *Wet areas like bathrooms and toilets, balconies or areas with plants, AC > coolers, dustbins are some of the places where mosquitoes can grow. That’s > why, it is essential to keep them clean and dry. Keep changing the water > stored in any of these places regularly and scrub them well to ensure no > eggs remain in the container….* > > *Q10 What effect does soap have on soft water?* > > *A10 Dr.Anuradha Srinivasan , works at Osmania > UniversityAnswered 51m ago* > > *Soap contains sodium salt from stearic acid. In soft water,** this > sodium dissolves easily, but in hard water, it binds to the minerals and > produces insoluble calcium or magnesium stearate, also known as soap scum.* > *🌷* > > *Q11 What makes kosher salt kosher?* > > *A11 Shayn McCallum I kept strictly kosher for years. July 22* > > *All salt is Kosher. What we call “Kosher salt” is actually** “koshering > salt”. When preparing meat, coarse salt is used to draw out any remaining > blood. The bloody salt is then washed off.* > > *İn other words, Kosher salt is not originally intended for eating but > rather for helping prepare Kosher meat. Any kind of uncontaminated salt is > Kosher for consumption.* > > *Q12 How close was the Black Plague from making humanity go > extinct?* > > *A12 Matt RiggsbyMA Archaeology, Boston UniversityJuly 25* > > *Not very. **Bubonic plague is quite deadly, with a mortality rate of 50% > or better**, and its pneumonic and septicemic variants are even deadlier, > albeit developed less frequently. However, not everybody in plague-ridden > areas contracted it, so there were always survivors, and over time > resistance to it improved as the plague failed to kill less susceptible > individuals. Medieval waves of the plague were pretty bad, reducing the > population of Europe by something around half, but outbreaks of plague > eventually came to kill a lot of people but then burn out and fail to > spread further.* > > *But in addition to failing to kill everybody, there was another factor in > play: substantial parts of the world were** insulated from it. The Black > Death of the Middle Ages didn’t spread to places like the Americas and > Oceania. Even if the plague had killed everybody there, there were other > human populations who would have survived. By the time Europeans started > spreading it out across the world, it had become sufficiently survivable in > the hemisphere of its origin that it was never going to kill everybody.* > > *Q13 What is a portable shower trailer?* > > *A3 Gopala Krishnan , former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 at > Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered 6h ago* > > *In Chennai India such trailers are used for film shooting to create > bathing scene. I do not know such costly trailers** are installed in > large hotels* > > *The explanation I got from google search- You need not** tap into > running water in order to use these shower trailers. Each one is equipped > with a water tank. ... The advantage of trailers having their own tanks is > that you do not need to worry about whether or not the local water supply > is clean.* > > *Q14 What will happen when all the oceans dry up?* > > *A14 Gopala Krishnan former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 > at Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered 6h ago* > > *Such a situation would NEVER HAPPEN. One should not** think on incidents > which SHOULD NOT happen.* > > *2ND ANSWER Dari Lambertson , former Senior Claims Customer Service > Supervisor (1991-1998)Answered August 15, 2019* > > *The oceans of the Earth can exist without us. If we humans become > extinct, they won’t even notice we’re gone. We, however, simply cannot > exist without our oceans. We need them. They are the primary life support > system on Earth, the lungs, climate regulator, and ultimate food factory - > connected deeply to each of us and nearly every economic activity that > makes our world go round.* > > *For those old enough to remember - and for the young and curious, too - > you may know “Earthrise,” the iconic photograph taken on 24 December, 1968 > by a 35-year-old American astronaut and engineer named William Anders as he > looked through a small, frosty window of Apollo 8, the first spacecraft to > leave Earth’s gravity and orbit the moon.* > > *From 380,000 km away, our spectacular planet appeared as a vulnerable, > mostly blue sphere, vividly illustrating their size and importance – they > cover some 70% of the Earth with an average depth of four kilometers.* > > *Oceans basically have two life-supporting roles. First, they absorb and > distribute solar radiation. Without water, harsh rays from the sun would > bake the equator while distributing almost no energy to the poles, > especially in the winter. Fortunately for us, water does a great job of > absorbing energy, and the oceans regulate temperatures around the Earth. > Currents circulate warm tropical waters to the north and south and cold > water back to the equator, distributing heat energy so that no place gets > too hot for life to survive and warming colder areas. Second, the oceans > feed the water cycle — the movement of water from the seas to the air to > the clouds, across miles and back again to the sea or to fall on land.* > > *When water is heated at the equator, it evaporates and becomes clouds. As > warm air rises, it also draws in cooler air from underneath. This process > stimulates more even heat distribution, turning places where it would > otherwise be too cold to live into lush, balmy gardens. That's why the > Mediterranean is so temperate and why there are places in Scotland, warmed > by the Gulf Stream, where you can grow palm trees.* > > *But let's get back to what would happen if the oceans were gone. In this > scenario, we're going to say the oceans have turned to dirt. We'd like to > give ourselves a small window of survivability, so let's say the dirt is > moist enough that it won't immediately turn the planet into an enormous > dust storm.* > > *The oceans are gone, but we still have some water. Let's take stock. Ice > caps, lakes and rivers (which now flow to vast expanses of soil) and > underground water are still available. Added together, those sources total > about 3.5 percent of our present water supply, the other 96.5 percent > having disappeared with the oceans. That's not enough to get a decent > worldwide water cycle going, even if we melted the ice caps. (About 68.7 > percent of Earth's fresh water is frozen in glaciers, ice caps and > permanent snow, mostly in Antarctica [source: USGS].) Without clouds > forming over the ocean, rain would be incredibly rare, and the planet would > become desert. We'd watch our lakes and water supplies dwindle a little > more every year until nothing was left.* > > *Humans might survive for a while near our homes. We still would have > access to groundwater and might get some underground hydroponic farms > working. But on the surface, plants and animals would begin to dry out > immediately. While trees can survive for a while without water, eventually > everything would become so dry that fires would span the continents. This > would be a multifaceted problem for humans: Aside from the usual problems > associated with fire (such as burning to death), the blazes would release > tons of carbon dioxide into the progressively stifling atmosphere, > accelerating global warming.* > > *The sun would continue to pound the equator, turning it into a furnace > with no relief from circulating ocean currents. Meanwhile greenhouse gases > from the world's fires would trap the sun's energy close to the ground. > Some difference in temperature between night and day would create high- and > low-pressure systems and produce wind, but the average temperature on Earth > would be 153 degrees Fahrenheit, making surface life impossible for even > the hardiest desert animals [source: Philander* > > *People would have to move. Humanity's only hope would be the window when > the Antarctic ice sheet was still intact, prompting massive migrations to > the Southern Hemisphere. As temperatures across the globe rose and Earth's > surface became uninhabitable, all of our energy would go toward collecting > Antarctic ice underground, where it would be safe from evaporation. We > might try to build some kind of self-sustaining biosphere underground, but > Antarctica's remoteness would make it difficult. Just gettingthere would be > hard enough. And survivors would find a flooded wasteland and no > infrastructure or resources — no mines, no roads, no food. It's unlikely > enough people would survive to finish the project. The few remaining > stragglers would dwell in underground bunkers. * > > *Things would get worse. On the planet's surface, all plant life is gone. > As the world burned, the atmosphere would become less and less oxygenated, > perhaps becoming unbreathable for humans, even if they could somehow > tolerate the extreme surface temperatures. The land would fry.* > > *Assuming humans could survive much longer in our Antarctic bunkers, there > would be no way to restart a healthy carbon cycle or bring temperatures > back down to reasonable, livable levels. As humans ran out of the scant > resources we'd packed along to Antarctica, we'd die off. Earth's only > survivors would be small colonies of chemo-synthetic bacteria hidden > underground in hot springs. Without oceans, everyone else dies.Hope this > helps to answer your question.* > > *All the above QA are based on Quora digest on 10-08- 2021/Answered by me > Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers * > > *Compiled and posted by R. 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