CULTURAL QA12-2021-18 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Is it bad for my health if I eat too many nuts a day? A1 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitals Tue Nuts are the essence of plants and are generally extremely nutritious. Nuts contain many beneficial ingredients, such as protein, unsaturatedfatty acids, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin E, vitamin B family,phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, potassium, copper, calcium, iron, and variousantioxidants. Regular eating of nuts cansupplement nutrition and is very beneficial to health. However, nuts are high-calorie,high-fat foods. If you eat too many nuts, the excess calories are easilyconverted into fat, leading to the risk of obesity. Nuts contain a lot of protein and fat. Excessive consumption willincrease the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, causing abdominal pain,bloating, constipation and other symptoms of indigestion. It is recommended to consume 10 grams of nuts a day, such as 2 walnuts, 6 hazelnuts, 5 cashews, 7almonds, 10 pistachios, 30 pumpkin seeds, 12 peanut kernel etc. Q2 How do plants grow in nature solo in the crappiestconditions, but when humans grow plants, they require fertilizers, distilledwater, herbicides, and pesticides in order to survive? A2 Pascal Morimacil Worker,Thinker, Writer Sun Humans try to create big monocultures, where anything else than one particular species isconsidered a pest, and destroyed on sight. And the plants struggle. In nature, the plants are notalone, they have friends, so they can manage even in quite crappy situations. There are going to be other plants, “weeds”, that will have sharedinterests in shading the ground and preventing too much evaporation. There will be “pests” that will go by, and eat some stuff, and then takea dump there, providing fresh nutrients. There will be fungus, that live off the sugars produced by the plant, andproviding nutrients in return. There will be buddies coming in to help provide some protection againstthe elements. Lots of little tiny critters that live on and around the plant, and theirwaste provides it with a constant source of nutrition. Algae can grow on rock. Butit’s not alone, it has a fungus buddy. Q3 What plant has the deepest root system? A3 Sascha L Dec 6 Usually trees don’t have it necessary to grow their roots too deep and a fig tree normally just needs toget its roots 1.5 meters (59 in) deep. In South Africa there is afig tree specimen that had a much deeper need to dig deep, though. For the Echo Caves in South Africa a fig tree accomplished the seeminglyimpossible! In the nation of South Africathere is a cave system named the Echo caves and these caverns are deepunderneath the soil some trees grow on. Fig trees have a need for a good water supply in order to bear fruit,so one tree did the seemingly impossible and dug 120 meters (393 ft.) deep intothe earth in its unstoppable drive for finding water! It took 70 years for the roots to reach the water and they had to digthrough massive rocks. Q4 As a pilot, when you are flying, is taking off reallymore dangerous than landing? A4 Andrew McGregor Flownseveral types of light aircraft. Wed Nope.Taking off is fairly easy and straightforward. Landing is hard. Really hard. There are so many more ways for a landingto go wrong. The easiest ways to have a problem on take off are to have a plane youdon’t know is broken, or to take off into bad weather. The thing is, you can solve both of those by doing your pre-flight workproperly, both inspecting the airplane and investigating the state of theweather. When landing, you just have to deal with what you are given. You tried before take off to ensure the weather would be OK… but based onimperfect information that might be hours old by the time you arrive.The planemight have developed a problem in flight. And you are under some time pressure; you only have so much fuel. Add that to the simple fact that landing is harder anyway, and landing ismuch more dangerous. Not that flying is dangerous in general, but the last 30 seconds or so ofany flight are the most likely time to have a problem. Q5 Humans are the most intelligent species on the planet.Does that include infants? A5 Steven Haddock Studiedat York University (Canada)Thu No. Tests done on infants of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans show that the other greatapes master certain cognitive skills faster than humans, such as understandingthat if something was in front of you and you suddenly can’t see it, it’sprobably fallen down. Orangutans will start looking at the floor while thestupid baby is still staring into space. However, once infants start acquiring language(about 12 months of age) they speed past their ape cousins very quickly and start developing to grasp conceptsthat apes can’t get. For example, you can teach a three year old that if itpoints to a small pile of candy, you will give them a larger pile, but chimpscan’t - they always go for the larger pile and get the smaller one no matterhow clear it is that will be the outcome. Strangely, if you make it an abstractproblem by using numbers, chimps will start pointing to the smaller number andlearn the trick. But to be fair, human beings are born horribly premature compared totheir ape cousins. It’s not surprising their huge brains are stillunderdeveloped. Q6 How long do refrigerator compressors last? A6 Gopala Krishnan,former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom(1966-2004)Answered just now Present day post companies givewarranty of 10 years for compressor. So according to company under normal circumstances, refrigerator willhave a span of 10 years service. 2nd answer BhagirthiKadavla, M. C. A Haria Collage & P V Modi School, P V Modi School (2020) Answered 5h ago Although plans for a replacement should start around eight years ofservice, a well-maintained compressor can reach to ten years and beyond. Q7 How could the elephant free himself from the mouth of thecrocodile? A7 Bill Sneddon FormerCommercial Diving Instructor/Supervisor at CDA Technical Institute(2017–2018)Updated 1y Adult elephants are vastly bigger and stronger thanany crocodiles in its natural environment. As such, an adult elephant will simply pull the crocodile out of thewater swing them about, then mud-stomp the crocodile into a bloody mushypuddle. Baby elephants are far morevulnerable, and are much easierprey. This stated, there’s always an adult elephant nearby. And the crocodilerisks getting attacked by the Mama elephant. But, if Mama is too far away, thecrocodile if big enough more likely than not succeeds killing the babyelephant. Q8 What light bulbs require more than one person to fix? A8 Gary Macdonald, formerRetired Fire Department Captain and EMR IT (1978-2015) Answered Thu Any light bulb changed by afolksinger takes four. One tochange it. Three to sing about how great the old bulb was. By firefighters: seven. One to change the bulb.One to butt the ladder.One safety officer.FourRapid Intervention Team members. By psychiatrists: just one. But the light bulb really needs to change. By Chiropractors: just one. But it’ll take nine treatments. By grad students: just one. Butit takes nine years. By bureaucrats: two. One to assure that everything possible is being done.One to screw it intothe water fountain. By upper class twits: four. One to call an electrician.One to mix the martinis.One to complain aboutthe amount of the bill. One to call their lawyer to launch a suit against theelectrician. By existentialists: two. One to screw it in. One to observe how the lightbulb symbolises a singleincandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdityreaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothing. My note- By electricinas/skilledpeoples 2. One to take out the bulbafter switch off the supply. Another to hold stool/ladder and collect the oldbulb, give the new bulb while the first one requires. After the firstfitted the bulb, get down and switch onthe light . If not perfectly fitted, heswitches off the supply, again fit. The person holding the ladder/stool should not control the switch. Especially with tube lights itis a must. Q9 How do the Gujaratis, Marwadis and Chettiyars have suchamazing business sense? A9 Balaji ViswanathanCEOof Invento Robotics.Updated 1y People of the deserts areusually good in money lending and trading. Chettiars come from a dry, less fertile south-east Tamil Nadu. Marwaris a part of the Thar desert. Gujarat is one of the driest states in India. Andsame with the Sindh region. Internationally, the people from dry areas like theJews, Pathans, Arabs are all known for their trading skills. People of fertile plains withless uncertainties don’t have a habit of storing a lot. They have enough jobs producing things — food, art etc. Think of theAmerican middle class or Indian IT class now — they take their earnings forgranted and spend more than they should. People from dry, dangerouslands don’t have that luxury. They will never know when the next rain would come. Thus, they tend to meticulously saveand are very prudent in spending. In the absence of opportunity to produce alot, they tend to focus their talents on trading goods. Their ability to saveresults in surplus resources that often need to be invested. A lot of it isused in moneylending to outside communities. But, their trading businesses alsoneed these surplus capital. A symbiotic relationship forms. While a people from a prosperous territory might never be motivated tomove out, in the desert you have to move to survive. Thus, in these tradingcommunities it is considered a shame to not move out of home to seek wealthoutside. They fan around the world building relationships. And to handle money, trade andlife outside home, they develop strong kinship ties and layers of trust. Theseinfrastructure become very critical for building large networks. This is primarily about trading type businesses. Regardingentrepreneurship, this advantage is no longer as significant. Thus, inbusinesses outside of banking and trading you see a fair level of diversity.Here you can see the skills of people like Narayana Murthy, Shiv Nadar, VijayShekhar Sharma produce great companies too. Q10 How do you connect two washing machine drain hoses together? A10 Roger Fentiman , FatherChristmas Impersonator 364 days per yearAnswered May 12, 2020 You can’t just T-them together to go into a side feed on a U-trap becausethe pressure in one will cause some of the drain water to flow into the othermachine. You can hook both outlet hoses into one downpipe with a U-trap at the bottom, becausethe air gap at the top will isolate the two flow pressures. Q11 All humans have very similar features like 5 fingers andeyelashes. Are we all more related to each other than we think? A11 Claire Jordan Degree inbiology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaperSep 18 Um, no, we’re as related as we think we are. We’re all one species, therefore weonly differ from each other in quite minor ways such as height, build andcolouration (birth defects aside). The only species whereindividuals differ radically are ones like domestic dogs and fancy pigeons that humans have mucked about with in extreme ways.Humans are more like horses- horses come in a lot of different colours, sizes, builds and degrees ofhairiness, but they’re still all obviously variations on a common theme. Q12 Which country would come last in terms of eatingnon-vegetarian food? A12 Mahi I love history andgeography Jun 16 So you are asking country with least non vegetarians. Simple answer India. India has the most number of vegetarians and even non vegetarians avoidflesh and eggs in certain days in a week if they are Hindus. India is the only country that has authentic vegetarian cuisine formillennia and spread the idea of vegetarianism to the entire world first. In case if you are askingcountry with most non vegetarian then my vote will go for Portugal.A Portugal dish that combine meat and fish. Only1.2% people identify themselves as vegetarian which is least in the entireworld. All the above QA are from Quora website on 17-12- 2021. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan ,78, former AGM Telecom Trivandrum on 18 -12-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/75307855.2277867.1639784067270%40mail.yahoo.com.
