CULTURAL QA 12-2022-22 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 What are some tips for eating healthycarrots? A1 Laura Bailey, Lives in Australia(1998–present) Mon While carrots arehealthy for you, thereare a few things to keep in mind when eating them. First, carrotscontain a lot of sugar, so if you're watching your intake, be sure to limit yourself to afew carrots per day. Second, carrots can be hard to digest,so if you're having trouble with constipation, try steaming or cooking them before eating. Lastly, carrots are high in vitaminsand minerals, so eat them raw or lightly cooked to get the mostnutritional benefit. Following these tips, you can enjoy carrots as part of ahealthy diet. Q2 If humans disappeared from Earth,where will elephants, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, zebras, and osteiches live innot just Africa? A2 Matt Riggsby, MA Archaeology, BostonUniversity Mon Pablo Escobar, thenotorious Colombian drug lord, was wealthy and powerful enough to indulgehimself in any number of extravagances. Among them was an extensive private zoo with animals fromall over the world. When he died in 1993, his country estate was abandonedand a number of animals in his zoo escaped. Ofparticular interest here are the four hippos in his menagerie. They reached a nearby river and didnot just survive but actually thrived, to the point where there’s now over ahundred hippos, approaching 200 by some estimates, living in the wildsof northern Colombia. This is actually a significant problem, since they’retechnically an invasive species with potentially negative impacts on theenvironment. So this is more orless what we might expect to happen. There are small captive populations of animals held in zoosaround the world. Ifhumans die and they get out, they’ve got a shot at survival if the localenvironment is friendly to them. African animals like elephants and zebras in zoos inSouth American and southern Asia such might stand a good chance of survival.Indeed, southern Asia was already home to native species of elephant, lion, andsome others, sopopulations in happily situated zoos might form the seed of a newlytransplanted wild population. Q3 Does an air conditioner (AC) helpreduce bad odours in a room? A3 Gopala Krishnan,Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now No is the answer. We have to open windows and doors fully to remove badodour.Also clean the room and remove the source of bad odour in the room. Switch ON fans will help toremove bad odour more quickly. There are room sprays. Spray them andswitch ON air conditioner. Bad odour will disappear. Ensure there are no sourceof bad odour anywhere in a home. Q4 Which country have you visited thatturned out to be nothing like how it is depicted? A4 Michelle Soroh, Sat I recently visitedIndia and it was nothing like how it is depicted in the movies. I expected tosee a lot of poverty, but instead found a vibrant culture with bustling citiesand modern infrastructure. The peoplewere incredibly friendly and welcoming, which was quite different from what Ihad seen in films about the country. It's amazing howmuch can be missed when you only get one perspective on something! Q5 Do flight attendants secretly eatFirst class delicacies? A5 Kevin Barrett, Former FlightAttendant (1987–2007)3y Yes…..and notsecretly.When I was flying International, the Airlines wanted our 28 First Classpassengers (747) to have their first choice of meal. So there were 28 of eachmeal. 3 or 4 different choices. The left over meals were crew meals for flight attendants and pilots.There were always extra meals in case of problems….we could alwaysuse good food to make angry, upset, or mistreated passengers feel better. Thereis/was always LOTs of food on the airplane when I was flying….. who knows, itmay be different now. Theymake jokes about airplane food, but sometimes the food was very very good!The one thing you could NEVER do was take food off the plane. Ground workerswould often raid the galley when passengers and crew got off the plane. Thatswhy when I worked galley position (my favorite spot)…. I would always put left overs inone area so it didnt go to waste. I think its sinful to wastefood!!!! Q6 Does eating fruit regularly preventdiabetes? A6 Jessie Paul, Lived in Riverside, CA4h Eating fruit regularly is an important part of a healthydiet and can help to reduce the risk of developing diabetes.However, it is not a guarantee that eating fruit will prevent a person fromdeveloping diabetes. Abalanced diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables, along with regularphysical activity, is the best way to prevent diabetes. Q7 Which is easily floating on thewater, a bucket or a pot? A7 Gopala Krishnan, Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now The general answer is bucket because the mouth is widerthan the pot. It also depends onthe weight of bucket / pot. If the weight of bucket is more comparing pot, potwill be floating. Q8 Do rabbits really like carrots? A8 Ellie Bounce, The girl who LOVESanimals and has interest in money Dec 7 Actually,this is a myth. Rabbits don't naturallyeat root vegetables or fruit. Carrots and fruit are high in sugar and shouldonly be fed in small amounts as occasional treats. Rabbits need mainly hay and/or grass, some leafygreens and a small, measured amount of pellets. Q9 India is establishing Hindu templesall over the world. Why? A9 Devala Rees, Hindu practitioner andscholar of Pagan religions Mon The country ofIndia is doing no such thing. Hindus are establishing Hindu temples all over the world,because Hindus live all over the world and want to attendtemples. They are not affiliated with the nation of India. Q10 Which event seems invented but is real? A10 Sebastian Legarraga, Small businessowner, composer, writer Sun The Great Stink ofLondon in 1858 is one event that seems too strange to be real, but it actuallyhappened. The Thames River had become a cesspool of industrial andhuman waste, leading to an unbearable stench that hung over the city for weekson end. People were forcedto cover their faces with handkerchiefs or masks just to go outside, and manyfled the city altogether. In response, Parliament passed legislation requiringsewers to be built throughout London and other measures taken to clean up theriver — all of which eventually succeeded in eliminating the smell. Q11 I heard that a new Train-18 has beenlaunched by Indian Railways. Can someone tell me more about it? A11 D G BERA, Former Sr. Manager, Projects(1981–2019)8h The Vande Bharat Express,(previously known as Train 18), is a semi-high-speed, electric multiple unittrain operated by Indian Railways. It was designed and manufactured by the Integral CoachFactory, CHENNAI. Q12 How does a plane avoid crashing intotall buildings when flying low in city areas? A12 Edward Falk, Commercial pilot'slicense, 1200+ hours flight experience Sat It’s been known to happen. Famously, a B25 lost in theclouds crashed into the Empire State Building many years ago(back before modern instrument flying technologies existed). For the mostpart, airplanes are not allowed to fly low in city areas. Regulations requirethat the plane be 1000′ higher than the top of the highest nearby structureplus enough altitude to glide to a safe landing in case of engine failure. The obviousexception to that rule is during takeoff and landing. The old Kai Tak airportin Hong Kong was notorious, and there are many pictures and videos of jumbojets flying between buildings on the way in. In general, you don’t fly down low over buildings unlessthe visibility is good and you can see them. If visibilityis bad, you either don’t land at that airport, or you fly a prescribedinstrument approach that will avoid them. Q13 Do Indian people get enough sleep? A13 Anubhav Jain, A simple human |Entrepreneur | Author 4y Babies wake up atnight. Kids have exams, home works todo in night. Teenagers haveentrances, video games, porn, movies, You Tube, Netflix etc. Young adults haveprojects, assignments, dead lines, warnings, chatting with girlfriend/boyfriendto deal with at night. Newly marriedpeople have uhmm uhmm some important issues to deal with. Kids are born, theyare night owls, they are your responsibility, they shit, cry, play and pee innight. Home loan, car, AC, washing machine & fridge EMI's,kid's school fee, tuitions, job security, life & health Insurance don't letthem sleep. Hypertension, depression, mid life crisis, career ofchildren, deteriorating health of parents, retirement planning makes them wakeup all night. Depleting health(specially body ache), rising expenses, low savings, low motivation, don't letthem sleep! Finally dead people are burnt or buried beneath theground so can't get peaceful sleep either! Good sleep givesyou energy, freshness, rejuvenation, stable health, it is the bestanti-depressant, it also prevents lifestyle diseases and is a major source ofmotivation and happiness. Being an Indian you can get good sleep only if you areadamant about it! Your choice steal it or leave it! Q14 What is the healthiest food we can eat? A14 Aisha Azeem, Sat DATES Dates are such afood, if you do not eat food for the whole day and live only with dates andwater, then this is the complete diet: It gives youstrength by avoiding weakness, and provides you all the nutrients, it is not healthierbut healthiest, this is my personal experience. I never feelweakness, if you eat dates in the morning on an empty stomach, 7 or as manydates as you can eat, it gives you a lot of strength, and this is my favoritefood ever. Q15 Is eating raw spinach good for you? A15 Kinley Tshering, thimphu, Bhutan Dec 14 As we all know,spinach is one of the vegetables with the highest oxalate content, and itsoxalic acid content is as high as 0.97%.When oxalic acid enters the body, itcombines with calcium. Not only hinders calcium absorption, but also formscalcium oxalate. The solubility of calcium oxalate is very low, which caneasily cause kidney stones and urinary tract stones. Therefore,although spinach can be eaten raw, it is best to eat cooked spinach. Many nutritionistsbelieve that steaming and boiling is an effective cooking method that canreduce the oxalic acid in spinach by 80% to 90%. Q16 Why are there crushed stones alongsiderail tracks? A16 David S. Rose,Proprietor of B&ARRCaboose C-54Updated 23h This is a goodquestion with an interesting answer. The crushed stones are what is known as ballast.Their purpose is to holdthe wooden cross ties in place, which in turn hold the rails in place. Think about theengineering challenge faced by running miles of narrow ribbons of steel trackon top of the ground: they are subject to heat expansion and contraction,ground movement and vibration, precipitation buildup from rough weather, andweed and plant growth from underneath. Now keep in mind that while 99% of the time they are justsitting there unburdened, the remaining 1% they are subject to moving loads asheavy as 1,000,000 pounds (the weight of a Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive andits tender). Put all thistogether, and you have yourself a really, really interesting problem that was first solved nearly200 years ago, and hasn't been significantly improved since! The answer is tostart with the bare ground, and then build up a foundation to raise the trackhigh enough so it won't get flooded. On top of the foundation, you deposit a load of crushed stone (theballast). On top of the stone, you lay down (perpendicular to thedirection of the track) aline of wooden beams on 19.5 inch centers, 8 1/2 feet long, 9 incheswide and 7 inches thick, weighing about 200 pounds...3,249 of them per mile. You then continue to dumpcrushed stone all around the beams. The sharp edges of the stonemake it difficult for them to slide over each other (in the way that smooth,round pebbles would), thus effectively locking them in place. The beams are made of hardwood (usually oak orhickory), and impregnated with creosote for weather protection. In the US wecall them "cross ties" (or, colloquially, just "railroadties"); in the UKthey are known as "sleepers"; European Portuguese,"travessas"; Brazilian Portuguese, "dormentes"; Russian,шпала (read "shpala"); French "traverses"; Estonian,“liiprid”. While 93% of ties in the US are still made of wood, heavily trafficked modern rail lines are increasingly trying alternatives,including composite plastic, steel and concrete. Sidebar for thetruly geeky, with fun facts about railroad ties There are approximately 689,974,000 ties in the UnitedStates, supporting 212,000 miles of railroad track.In 2011 the major US railroads replaced a total of 15,063,539 ties. 14,148,012of them were new and made of wood; 544,652 were second-hand wood ties; and370,875 were new ties made of something other than wood. Old ties are recycled for use inlandscaping, turned into pellet fuel, or burned in co-generation plants toprovide electricity. Next, you bring in hot-rolled steel rails, historically 39'long in the US (because they were carried to the sitein 40' gondola cars), but increasingly now 78', and lay them on top of the ties,end to end. They used to be joined by bolting on an extra piece of steel(called a "fishplate") across the side of the joint, but today areusually continuously welded end-to-end. It would seem that you could just nail them or bolt themdown to the ties, but that won't work. Thenon-trivial movement caused by heat expansion and contraction along the lengthof the rail would cause it to break or buckle if any of it were fixed in place.So instead, the rails areattached to the sleepers by clips or anchors, which hold them down but allowthem to move longitudinally as they expand or contract. So there youhave it: a centuries old process that is extremely effective at facilitatingthe movement of people and material over thousands of miles...eventhough nothing is permanently attached to the ground with a fixed connection! The ballastdistributes the load of the ties (which in turn bear the load of the train onthe track, held byclips)across the foundation, allows for ground movement, thermal expansion and weightvariance, allow rain and snow to drain through the track, and inhibit thegrowth of weeds and vegetation that would quickly take over the track. By the way, asnoted in the comment by User-13812768563281058315, the consequences of NOT appropriately providingfor the effects of heat expansion and contraction can be pretty drastic.Just imagine what would happen to a train that tried to go down this particularsection of buckled track (in Melbourne, during a heat wave...). All the above QA are from Quora website on 21-11- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 22-11-2022 -- 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/759399632.2072429.1671673542666%40mail.yahoo.com.
