CULTURAL QA 12202331A
Q1 Where does the force that changes the tilt of the Earth come from?
What makes the Earth change its tilt?
KR It is an out come of a young man copying Milankovitch theory
floated, without deep understanding; (he is only an operator). But the
producer is also is not sure of his foot; but perhaps misunderstood my
theory of precision and read axis tilt as that; and as he does not know
much left it at it; the readers who reads them, may by pass as usual or
misunderstand if they are reading with desire. Its ok as usual it is my
responsibility to distinguish what is what. Tilt axis etc of the earth as
well as that of so many planets depend on various factors and all tilts are
not the same; so never ever be carried away, by any half-baked content. Ask
questions.
Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate
By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Our lives literally revolve around cycles: series of events that are
repeated regularly in the same order. There are hundreds of different types
of cycles in our world and in the universe. Some are natural, such as the
change of the seasons, annual animal migrations or the circadian rhythms
that govern our sleep patterns. Others are human-produced, like growing and
harvesting crops, musical rhythms or economic cycles.
Cycles also play key roles in Earth’s short-term weather and long-term
climate. A century ago, Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovitch hypothesized
the long-term, collective effects of changes in Earth’s position relative
to the Sun are a strong driver of Earth’s *long-term* climate, and are
responsible for triggering the beginning and end of glaciation periods (Ice
Ages).
Specifically, he examined how variations in three types of Earth orbital
movements affect how much solar radiation (known as insolation) reaches the
top of Earth’s atmosphere as well as where the insolation reaches. These
cyclical orbital movements, which became known as the Milankovitch cycles,
cause variations of up to 25 percent in the amount of incoming insolation
at Earth’s mid-latitudes (the areas of our planet located between about 30
and 60 degrees north and south of the equator).
The Milankovitch cycles include:
1. The shape of Earth’s orbit, known as *eccentricity*;
2. The angle Earth’s axis is tilted with respect to Earth’s orbital
plane, known as *obliquity*; and
3. The direction Earth’s axis of rotation is pointed, known as
*precession*.
*KR: His theory is not a perfect science but a general idea; our Vedic
scripture does a great service in Bhu-suktam Rig Vedam. I will write about
it later, even though some NETI NETI may write some incorrigible write up. *
Yes, the statement is generally correct. The angle of tilt of
Earth's axis of rotation is indeed known as obliquity. Over the last
million years or so, the Earth's axial tilt has fluctuated between
approximately 22.1 and 24.5 degrees relative to its orbital plane. The
gravitational forces exerted by celestial bodies like the Sun, Moon, and
other planets in the solar system can cause changes in Earth's spin, axial
tilt, and orbit over extended periods.
*Eccentricity* – Earth’s annual pilgrimage around the Sun isn’t perfectly
circular, but it’s pretty close. Over time, the pull of gravity from our
solar system’s two largest gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, causes
the shape of Earth’s orbit to vary from nearly circular to slightly
elliptical. Eccentricity measures how much the shape of Earth’s orbit
departs from a perfect circle. These variations affect the distance between
Earth and the Sun.
Eccentricity is the reason why our seasons are slightly different lengths,
with summers in the Northern Hemisphere currently about 4.5 days longer
than winters, and springs about three days longer than autumns. As
eccentricity decreases, the length of our seasons gradually evens out.
The difference in the distance between Earth’s closest approach to the Sun
(known as perihelion), which occurs on or about January 3 each year, and
its farthest departure from the Sun (known as aphelion) on or about July 4,
is currently about 5.1 million kilometres (about 3.2 million miles), a
variation of 3.4 percent. That means each January, about 6.8 percent more
incoming solar radiation reaches Earth than it does each July.
When Earth’s orbit is at its most elliptic, about 23 percent more incoming
solar radiation reaches Earth at our planet’s closest approach to the Sun
each year than does at its farthest departure from the Sun. *Currently,
Earth’s eccentricity is very slowly decreasing and is approaching its least
elliptic (most circular), in a cycle that spans about 100,000 years.*
The total change in global annual insolation due to the eccentricity cycle
is very small. Because variations in Earth’s eccentricity are fairly small,
they’re a relatively minor factor in annual seasonal climate variations.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
*Obliquity* – The angle Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted as it travels
around the Sun is known as obliquity. Obliquity is why Earth has seasons.
Over the last million years, it has varied between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees
with respect to Earth’s orbital plane. The greater Earth’s axial tilt
angle, the more extreme our seasons are, as each hemisphere receives more
solar radiation during its summer, when the hemisphere is tilted toward the
Sun, and less during winter, when it is tilted away. Larger tilt angles
favor periods of deglaciation (the melting and retreat of glaciers and ice
sheets). These effects aren’t uniform globally -- higher latitudes receive
a larger change in total solar radiation than areas closer to the equator.
*Earth’s axis is currently tilted 23.4 degrees, or about half way between
its extremes, and this angle is very slowly decreasing in a cycle that
spans about 41,000 years.* It was last at its maximum tilt about 10,000
years ago and will reach its minimum tilt about 10,000 years from now. As
obliquity decreases, it gradually helps make our seasons milder, resulting
in increasingly warmer winters, and cooler summers that gradually, over
time, allow snow and ice at high latitudes to build up into large ice
sheets. As ice cover increases, it reflects more of the Sun’s energy back
into space, promoting even further cooling.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
*Precession* – As Earth rotates, it wobbles slightly upon its rotational
axis, like a slightly off-centre spinning toy top. This wobble is due to
tidal forces caused by the gravitational influences of the Sun and Moon
that cause Earth to bulge at the equator, affecting its rotation. The trend
in the direction of this wobble relative to the fixed positions of stars is
known as *axial precession*. The cycle of axial precession spans about
25,771.5 years. { I wrote 26000 years}
Axial precession makes seasonal contrasts more extreme in one hemisphere
and less extreme in the other. Currently perihelion occurs during winter in
the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere. This
makes Southern Hemisphere summers hotter and moderates Northern Hemisphere
seasonal variations. But in about 13,000 years, axial precession will cause
these conditions to flip, with the Northern Hemisphere seeing more extremes
in solar radiation and the Southern Hemisphere experiencing more moderate
seasonal variations.
Precession does affect seasonal timing relative to Earth's closest/farthest
points around the Sun. However, the modern calendar system ties itself to
the seasons, and so, for example, the Northern Hemisphere winter will never
occur in July. Today Earth’s North Stars are Polaris and Polaris Australis,
but a couple of thousand years ago, they were Kochab and Pherkad.
There’s also *apsidal precession*. Not only does Earth wobble on its
rotational axis, but Earth’s entire orbital ellipse – that is, the
oval-shaped path Earth follows in its orbit around the Sun — also wobbles
irregularly, primarily due to its interactions with Jupiter and Saturn. The
cycle of apsidal precession spans about 112,000 years. Apsidal precession
changes the orientation of Earth’s orbit relative to the ecliptic plane.
The combined effects of axial and apsidal precession result in an overall
precession cycle spanning about 23,000 years on average.
*A Climate Time Machine*
The small changes set in motion by Milankovitch cycles operate separately
and together to influence Earth’s climate over very long timespans, leading
to larger changes in our climate over tens of thousands to hundreds of
thousands of years. Milankovitch combined the cycles to create a
comprehensive mathematical model for calculating differences in solar
radiation at various Earth latitudes along with corresponding surface
temperatures. The model is sort of like a climate time machine
<https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine>: it can be run
backward and forward to examine past and future climate conditions.
Milankovitch assumed changes in radiation at some latitudes and in some
seasons are more important than others to the growth and retreat of ice
sheets. In addition, it was his belief that obliquity was the most
important of the three cycles for climate, because it affects the amount of
insolation in Earth’s northern high-latitude regions during summer (the
relative role of precession versus obliquity is still a matter of
scientific study).
He calculated that Ice Ages occur approximately every 41,000 years.
Subsequent research confirms that they did occur at 41,000-year intervals
between one and three million years ago. But about 800,000 years ago, the
cycle of Ice Ages lengthened to 100,000 years, matching Earth’s
eccentricity cycle. While various theories have been proposed to explain
this transition, scientists do not yet have a clear answer.
Milankovitch’s work was supported by other researchers of his time, and he
authored numerous publications on his hypothesis. But it wasn’t until about
10 years after his death in 1958 that the global science community began to
take serious notice of his theory. In 1976, a study in the journal Science
by Hays et al. using deep-sea sediment cores found that Milankovitch cycles
correspond with periods of major climate change over the past 450,000
years, with Ice Ages occurring when Earth was undergoing different stages
of orbital variation.
Several other projects and studies have also upheld the validity of
Milankovitch’s work, including research using *data from ice cores* in
Greenland and Antarctica that has provided strong evidence of Milankovitch
cycles going back many hundreds of thousands of years. In addition, his
work has been embraced by the National Research Council of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences.
Scientific research to better understand the mechanisms that cause changes
in Earth’s rotation and how specifically Milankovitch cycles combine to
affect climate is ongoing. {Milkovich is not fully correct KR} But the
theory that they drive the timing of *glacial-interglacial cycles* is well
accepted. {In short it has nothing o do with water as written, but glacial
changes in Alaska belt and nature plays its components and the research is
incomplete KR}
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Why Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming
By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
In the last few months, a number of questions have come in asking if
NASA has attributed Earth’s recent warming to changes in how Earth moves
through space around the Sun: a series of orbital motions known as
Milankovitch cycles. What cycles, you ask?
Milankovitch cycles include the shape of Earth’s orbit (its
eccentricity), the angle that Earth’s axis is tilted with respect to
Earth’s orbital plane (its obliquity), and the direction that Earth’s spin
axis is pointed (its precession). These cycles affect the amount of
sunlight and therefore, energy, that Earth absorbs from the Sun. They
provide a strong framework for understanding long-term changes in Earth’s
climate, including the beginning and end of Ice Ages throughout Earth’s
history. (You can learn more about Milankovitch cycles and the roles they
play in Earth’s climate here). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
But Milankovitch cycles can’t explain all climate change that’s occurred
over the past 2.5 million years or so. And more importantly, they cannot
account for the current period of rapid warming Earth has experienced since
the pre-Industrial period (the period between 1850 and 1900), and
particularly since the mid-20th century. Scientists are confident Earth’s
recent warming is primarily due to human activities — specifically, the
direct input of carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere from burning fossil
fuels. So how do we know Milankovitch cycles aren’t to blame?
First, Milankovitch cycles operate on long time scales, ranging from
tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. In contrast, Earth’s
current warming has taken place over time scales of decades to centuries.
Over the last 150 years, Milankovitch cycles have not changed the amount of
solar energy absorbed by Earth very much. In fact, NASA satellite
observations show that over the last 40 years, solar radiation has actually
decreased somewhat.
Second, Milankovitch cycles are just one factor that may contribute to
climate change, both past and present. Even for Ice Age cycles, changes in
the extent of ice sheets and atmospheric carbon dioxide have played
important roles in driving the degree of temperature fluctuations over the
last several million years.
The extent of ice sheets, for example, affects how much of the Sun’s
incoming energy is reflected back to space, and in turn, Earth’s
temperature.
Then there’s carbon dioxide. During past glacial cycles, the concentration
of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere fluctuated from about 180 parts per
million (ppm) to 280 ppm as part of Milankovitch cycle-driven changes to
Earth’s climate. These fluctuations provided important feedback to the
total change in Earth’s climate that took place during those cycles.
Today, however, it’s the direct input of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere from burning fossil fuels that’s responsible for changing
Earth’s atmospheric composition over the last century, rather than climate
feedbacks from the ocean or land caused by Milankovitch cycles.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, the concentration of carbon
dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased 50 percent, from about 280 ppm
to 412 ppm (update: 421 ppm in 2023).
Scientists know with a high degree of certainty this carbon dioxide is
primarily due to human activities because carbon produced by burning fossil
fuels leaves a distinct “fingerprint” that instruments can measure. Since
1850, Earth’s global average temperature has increased by over 1 degree
Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). Furthermore, recent scientific
assessments show that Earth is expected to warm another half a degree
Celsius (almost a degree Fahrenheit) as soon as 2030.
This relatively rapid warming of our climate due to human activities
is happening in addition to the very slow changes to climate caused by
Milankovitch cycles. Climate models indicate any forcing of Earth’s climate
due to Milankovitch cycles is overwhelmed when human activities cause the
concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere to exceed about 350
ppm.
Scientists know of no natural changes to the equilibrium between the
amount of solar radiation absorbed by Earth and the amount of energy
radiated back to space that can account for such a rapid period of global
warming. The amount of incoming solar radiation has increased only slightly
over the past century and is therefore not a driver of Earth’s current
climate warming.
Since 1750, the warming driven by greenhouse gases coming from the
human burning of fossil fuels is over 50 times greater than the slight
extra warming coming from the Sun itself over that same time interval. If
Earth’s current warming was due to the Sun, scientists say we should expect
temperatures in both the lower atmosphere (troposphere) and the next layer
of the atmosphere, the stratosphere, to warm. Instead, observations from
balloons and satellites show Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere have
warmed but the stratosphere has cooled.
Finally, Earth is currently in an interglacial period (a period of
milder climate between Ice Ages). If there were no human influences on
climate, scientists say Earth’s current orbital positions within the
Milankovitch cycles predict our planet should be cooling, not warming,
continuing a long-term cooling trend that began 6,000 years ago.There’s
nothing cool about that.
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Q2 What are the most important warnings in life?
G If you need to begin something, you have to begin it today.
KR There is a say; one who has no vision cannot look like a king
looks at things. (kurudanai poy raja parvai paarkach chonnaal) So no one
can execute what did they plan; no one can plan as their ancestor did; no
one can run as another does; everyone is unique endowed by the Karma; How
can a 10 year begin today the wedding life? So that is also a wrong
utterance. One shall do at the appropriate time. Kalam karudiyiruppar the
learned Tirukkural says. So planning is a guideline; It is a good time for
Mesham this year is a guideline; then one had to wait till this time;
(kalam karudiyiruppar) . Now plan by your own and borrowed ideas and then
sift according to the ability and try to execute with plans A,B and C.
Leave the rest to HIM.
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Q3 Who is the most creative person in history, and why?
KR OK no gainsay. But don't we have any here? WHAT ABOUT U.Ve.Sa?
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Q4 What is the single most effective piece of financial advice you've
ever received?
KR Wang and Mr G tried some magic ;let's see now the brittles.
Buy assets, not liabilities.
KR Buying with own cash is not business; Virudhunagar , Sivakasi Na
Gujarat had done business only with liability, money of others; and the big
business tycoons of the 3rd generation are having 5 digit assets with
liabilities. Excess asset is success; excess liability is insolvency where
other people's wealth was only lost.
Buy things that make money for you: stocks, real estate. Don’t buy things
that don’t make money: clothing, fancy cars, etc.
KR Wrong; your family people, including wife and children will run
away, if you keep generating assets only. And one day you will ask
yourself, why are all these so long?
Don’t buy assets you don’t understand.
KR True; don’t to any thing YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND; or else you
will be called a TURKEY; Gana mayilad kandirundha vaan kozhi thanum
adhuvaga pavithu, than polla siragai virithu………Can a turkey open up its
wings thinking it is dancing line a peacock?
When your friends at the bank try to sell you a complicated financial
instrument that you don’t understand, chances are it’s a bad apple.
KR Cannot say; how many of you in the groups knew in the beginning
share dealings? You try to understand, learn, struggle, fail and succeed.
Make more money, not save more money.
KR Mr G will say when things are clear, :I DON’T UNDERSTAND:; what is
making more money without savings? When you play poker without saving and
making all as input, you will grow so rich in 10games; but the 11th game
you may walk home as you lost everything having no savings.
No one increases their net worth by saving. They increase by making more
money. People who look rich are poor. People who look poor are rich.
KR Thank GOD he and his copier are not our FM
People who drive fancy cars and flaunt their supposed wealth are probably
not that wealthy. KR Not exactly; either way is true.
My note- This point I cannot agree. When money is required, only own money
can meet it. So Saving money is a must. KR Good then you should have
avoided such nonsenses.
“I never invest in anything that I don’t understand” - Warren Buffett
KR: Of course! Here are some quotes that might resonate with the idea of
struggle and overcoming challenges:
1 "The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for
tomorrow." - Unknown
2 "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your
strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that
is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
3 "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without
trials." - Chinese Proverb
4 "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to
continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
5 "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the
seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill
6 "The only way through the valley is to keep walking. So, walk even
harder when it feels hardest." - Maxime Lagacé
7 "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance
in the rain." - Vivian Greene
8 "Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming
the things you once thought you couldn’t." - Rikki Rogers
9 "The darkest hour has only sixty minutes." - Morris Mandel
10 "Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried,
but you've actually been planted." - Christine Caine
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Q5 Why should I want to live beyond 60?
G My note- There is a member in our group, who makes foolish arguments
and offending statements. Even today he has offended me by foolish
attacks. He will stop foolish and offending arguments in a similar day when
he realises it. Let me hope for the day.
KR Poor man; The illiterates always think wise are fools. We cannot
blame them; That is Parkinson law; One can think only to his level; and
ladies are excluded from it. Everyone knows except him, who cannot
understand beyond his level. Even when NOSE bleeds still will say the sand
is not there.
G So why should you live beyond 60? To enjoy the things which you
could not enjoy when you were working. To share your knowledge with others.
To learn new things which you could not learn when you were in service
because you could not afford that much time. The second innings give you
many opportunities. You are the person who should grab those opportunities.
KR Retirement is not for any of such things; in an earlier Q & A, G only
said that “there is no in 35, 45 55 etc, but shall do then and there; read
above; and now he only says that only after 60 one adds the knowledge; NO
sir. A really busy man, never says I AM BUSY; He will find time by altering
the straight-line; adjustment of time; modifications plans; make every one
finds accommodations of the knowledge; my knowledge which developed since
age 3 onwards, got expanded; and retirement added expanded knowledge and
not a fresh one as if new; something modern if may be allied new, yes were
also added; it is the retentions; and 60 is not the age of retention sir.
Even now I am doing my office as well as Vedas. I am trying to learn Latin
and Russian from my Grandchildren. I help so many people to solve their tax
problems not for money, though I also earn. Retirement is moving out of the
throne to accommodate your children sir.
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Q7 What is the brutal truth about people?
G My note-Just because of the good thoughts of a student of 19 years
old I felt it can be included.
KR I can understand the cravings of 19 for likes etc in media; he
will change over when he is 25; but my wonder is, HOW ONE FOOT IN THE
GRAVE ALSO ASPIRES FOR LIKES ETC AS MEDIA HIP HOP GOSSIPS?
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2023 at 19:17
Subject: [KeralaIyers] CULTURAL QA 12-2023-31A
To: Patty Thatha <[email protected]>, Iyer <
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CULTURAL QA 12-2023-31A
Dear friends,
I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year 2024
All the below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 31-12-2023.
Selected quora answers generally interesting are included .Still they need
not be 100% correct answers.
Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 31-12-2023.
Q1 Where does the force that changes the tilt of the Earth come from?
What makes the Earth change its tilt?
A1 Ganesh Subramaniam, Amateur Radio Operator, Amateur Astronomer4h
The angle of tilt of Earth’s axis of rotation is known as obliquity. Over
the last million years, it has varied between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees with
respect to Earth’s orbital plane.
As the Earth orbits the Sun, it is pulled by the gravitational forces of
the Sun, Moon, and the large planets in the solar system. Over long periods
of time, this slowly changes Earth's spin, tilt, and orbit.
During a cycle of about 40,000 years, the tilt of the Earth’s axis varies
between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. Earth’s axis is currently tilted 23.4
degrees, and this angle is very slowly decreasing. It was last at its
maximum tilt about 10,000 years ago and will reach its minimum tilt about
10,000 years from now.
Believe it or not, scientists have discovered that one of the reasons why
Earth's tilt has changed is because of the amount of ground water pumped by
humans.
The water circulated across the planet determines how mass is distributed.
Earth's tilt has changed by about 80 cm between 1993 and 2010 because of
the amount of groundwater that humans have pumped out from the planet's
interior. (In the above period, we have removed 2,150 gigatons of water
from natural reservoirs in the planet's crust, and displacing such an
enormous amount of water has had an effect on the axis around which the
planet spins).
Ref: Groundwater extraction has tilted Earth’s spin; how likely is it to
fuel climate change?
Q2 What are the most important warnings in life?
A2 You get up in the morning, drag yourself to your work. You come
back home mentally and physically exhausted. You fume and complain. But you
eat, go to sleep, get up next morning and again drag yourself to work. Day
after day. Week after week. Month after month….. There is nothing wrong
with the world around you. Either you have to change or your work needs to
be changed.
You buy a treadmill and work on it for two hours a day for a week. And then
you stop. A month passes. You look at the treadmill every day after you
return from work. You pity yourself that you are too tired and promise to
start the next day. The next day never comes….. You need to get your
motivation back before a scalpel or pills become the only option.
You get up in the morning and have a look at your mobile phone before you
brush your teeth. You are browsing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram…. in your
bed at night. You are on them when your mother is calling you to have
dinner. You do not want to visit your friend in the neighbourhood because
you want to see what your one thousand virtual friends are commenting about
your last post…. You need to return to the real world.
You keep on saying, ‘When I was your age, I did this,’ ‘When I was young, I
could do that,’ ‘I did this’ and ‘I did that’….. You need to shift your
focus to your goals in future.
You keep saying to yourself, ‘When I am thirty five, all my financial
issues will have been resolved,’ ‘I will change my eating habits when I am
thirty.’ ‘I will start losing weight when the new year begins’….. That day
will never come. If you need to begin something, you have to begin it today.
Q3 Who is the most creative person in history, and why?
A3 Jean-Marie Valheur, lover of history15h
In 1973, an elderly janitor died in a hospice. His name was Henry Darger. A
kindly old man, he mostly kept to himself. No one knew him as anything else
than just, the janitor. The landlord of Darger had to clean out the old man’s
room, when he passed.
It was only then, upon cleaning the room out, that they discovered
paintings. Drawings. Etchings. Writings, endless pages and papers… Darger
literally created thousands of pieces of art. A novel spanning nearly
15,000 pages. He had been incredibly productive, for well over sixty years. And
most remarkable of all? He had never told a soul. He lived and died in
Chicago, Illinois, and for his entire life, he kept his art a secret to the
world.
Henry Darger lived for 81 years. Each day after he clocked out at work, he
went home to create art at night. Hours upon hours of writing, revising,
drawing, etching. He left no family and the landlord became a
multi-millionaire selling the works. Darger is now one of the world’s most
famous “outsider artists”. And died never knowing it.
Q4 What is the single most effective piece of financial advice you've
ever received?
A4 Henry Wang, Worked at Google (company)5y
Buy assets, not liabilities.
Buy things that make money for you: stocks, real estate. Don’t buy things
that don’t make money: clothing, fancy cars, etc.
Don’t buy assets you don’t understand.
When your friends at the bank try to sell you a complicated financial
instrument that you don’t understand, chances are it’s a bad apple.
Make more money, not save more money.
No one increases their net worth by saving. They increase by making more
money. People who look rich are poor. People who look poor are rich.
People who drive fancy cars and flaunt their supposed wealth are probably
not that wealthy.
My note- This point I cannot agree. When money is required, only own money
can meet it. So Saving money is a must.
“I never invest in anything that I don’t understand” - Warren Buffett
Q5 Why should I want to live beyond 60?
A5 Vijaya Lakshmi, Retired Finance manager at Coal India Limited (A
Maharatna Company)5y
There was this man in our office at Bhubaneswar. Just a wooden partition
separated his seat from mine. He was 6 to 7 years younger to me.
He had one strange opinion about life. I often heard him saying to others “
why should people strive to live after they stop earning? One should not
live after he retires from work”
“But they earn their pension”
“I don't consider earning pension as earning. Either they should work after
retirement or don't live” was his argument.
He used to make such comments whenever any retired person visited the
office for either settling their post retirement claims or some arrear
payments.
This pained many people in the office. People stopped arguing with him.
After my retirement in 2010, though we visited BBSR many times, we never
met this person.
Yesterday we came to BBSR on some work in the bank. There we saw this man.
He was fit and healthy as before. He did not notice us.
“ He might have retired last year. If my guess is correct, he must be
working somewhere after retirement” I said.
When I was speaking with my husband he turned around, saw us and said “hi”
“Hi, you still look young and fit after retirement. So where are you
working after retirement?” husband asked him.
“No sir, I am not working anywhere. I am enjoying my life with my pension.
I have purchased tickets to watch 'Hockey Matches' going on here. How could
I afford so much time if I work?” he said smiling.
Both husband and I looked at each other. Husband was about to ask about his
argument some years back. I stopped him with my eyes.
“Why did you stop me? I wanted to see his expression after I ask the
question” husband said.
*** “ See he used to argue foolishly in those days. But now when he is
enjoying his life, why should we kill that happiness?” I said.
My note- There is a member in our group, who makes foolish arguments and
offending statements. Even today he has offended me by foolish attack. He
will stop foolish and offending arguments in a similar day when he realise
it. Let me hope for the day.
So why should you live beyond 60?
To enjoy the things which you could not enjoy when you were working.
To share your knowledge with others.
To learn new things which you could not learn when you were in service
because you could not afford that much time.
The second innings give you many opportunities. You are the person who
should grab those opportunities.
Q6 Can you tell some Random Facts?
World Random Facts,Former Manager at Buildup iQ (2010–2023)Wed
Albert Einstein never learned to drive. He thought it too complicated and
in any case, he preferred walking. What he did not know—indeed, what no one
knew until now—is that most cars would not work without the intervention of
one of his most famous discoveries, the special theory of relativity.
Special relativity deals with physical extremes. It governs the behavior of
subatomic particles zipping around powerful accelerators at close to the
speed of light and its equations foresaw the conversion of mass into energy
in nuclear bombs. A paper in Physical Review Letters, however, reports a
more prosaic application. According to the calculations of Pekka Pyykko of
the University of Helsinki and his colleagues, the familiar lead-acid
battery that sits under a car's bonnet and provides the oomph to get the
engine turning owes its ability to do so to special relativity.
The lead-acid battery is one of the triumphs of 19th-century technology. It
was invented in 1860 and is still going strong. Superficially, its
mechanism is well understood. Indeed, it is the stuff of high-school
chemistry books. But Dr. Pyykko realized that there was a problem. In his
view, when you dug deep enough into the battery's physical chemistry, that
chemistry did not explain how it worked.
A lead-acid battery is a collection of cells, each of which contains two
electrodes immersed in a strong solution of sulphuric acid. One of the
electrodes is composed of metallic lead, the other of porous lead dioxide.
In the parlance of chemists, metallic lead is electropositive. This means
that when it reacts with the acid, it tends to lose some of its electrons.
Lead dioxide, on the other hand, is highly electronegative, preferring to
absorb electrons in chemical reactions. If a conductive wire is run between
the two, electrons released by the lead will run through it towards the
lead dioxide, generating an electrical current as they do so. The bigger
the difference in the electropositivity and electronegativity of the
materials that make up a battery's electrodes, the bigger the voltage it
can deliver. In the case of lead and lead dioxide, this potential
difference is just over two volts per cell.
Q7 What is the brutal truth about people?
A7 Prabha Sharma,19 years old3h
Yamraj Thakral was not good in studies; somehow, he passed 12th class.
When he came to college, he wasn't into studies, so he used to stroll here
and there, do gossip, and party in clubs. He didn't know what he would do
in his life. His parents used to scold him a lot, but he never took them
seriously.
One day, while he were eating in a restaurant, his friend told him about
some vloggers who were making millions from vlogging or just recording
videos. His friend's notion stuck in his mind, and that day he decided to
pursue his career on YouTube.
He started vlogging. Before joining YouTube, Yamraj was a fun-loving boy
who didn't take any kind of tension.
Whenever his videos got some views, he became happy for some time, but when
he compared his videos with big YouTubers, he got depressed.
Day and night, he just thought about vlogging. He purchased many
unnecessary products to make good thumbnails like, "Today we purchased an
iPhone," "Today we purchased this and that," and soon.
His happiness depends on views, likes, subscribes, and comments. Now, he
always stays stressed and gets frustrated over trivial things.
It's not a only yamraj story; there are millions of people whose happiness
now depends on like, share, follower, subscribes, and views. Because of the
heavy influence of social media, we are lurking behind the digital world to
find happiness.
Instead of finding happiness, we are draining our minds in stress, anxiety,
and depression. This is the brutal truth of our generation.
P:S"It's a fictional story.”
My note-Just because good thoughts of a student of 19 years old I felt it
can be included.
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