CULTURALQA 03-2024-08A
All the below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 08-03-2024. Selectedquora answers generally interesting including jokes are included. Still they need not be 100% correct answers. I am only a compiler. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 08-03-2024. Q1 Why doairplanes prefer to fly over the ocean? A1 AmitSingh,Mar 2 Have you everwondered why your flight path curved over the ocean, even though it seemed outof the way? It'sall about efficiency and safety, friends! Let's dive into this fascinatingaspect of air travel. Aircraft oftenfollow what's known as the "Great Circle" route. This mightlook curved on a flat map, but it's actually the shortest distance between twopoints on a globe. When you're traveling thousands of miles, following aGreat Circle route saves time and fuel, even if it seems to curve oddly over theocean. Plus, there's the added benefit of smoother rides. Over the ocean, air tends to be less turbulent compared toover land, thanksto the uniform temperature of the sea surface. This means less bouncing around for you and your in-flightdrink! So, thenext time you're on a plane, look out of the window and appreciate the oceanbeneath - it's not just a pretty view, it's part of smart and efficientaviation. Q2 What aresome of the most profound jokes ever? A2 DavidPhelps, Jewish Mayflower Descendant11y A man dies and goes to hell. Once there, he finds thatthere is a different hell for each country, so he tries to seek out the leastpainful one. At the door toGerman Hell, he is told: "First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then theylay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German devil comes in and whips you for the restof the day." He does not like the sound of that, so he checks outAmerican Hell, Russian Hell and many more. They are all similarly gruesome. However, at Nigerian Hell a longline of people is waiting to get in. Amazed, he asks, "What do they dohere?" He is told: "First they put you in an electricchair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Thenthe Nigerian devil comes in and whips you for the rest of the day." "But that's the same as the others," saysthe man. "Why are so many people waiting to get in?" "Becauseof the power cuts, the electric chair does not work. Thenails were paid for but never supplied, so the bed is comfortable. Andthe Nigerian devil used to bea civil servant, so he comes in, signs his time sheet and goes back home forprivate business." Tolu Ogunlesi Q3 What doDoctors know and I don't know but I should know? A3 TinyNair, Cardiologist at PRS Hospital, Trivandrum4y Declassified Secrets – for your eyes only 1.A suddencatastrophe, like an acute heart attack, is a life changing event for mostpeople. Thetreatment like an angioplasty or bypass surgery is, no doubt, life-saving;people get impressed by them; even flaunt the news around. Yes, theseprocedures save life. But they do nothing; (I repeat: nothing) to preventprogression of the disease that produced the block in the first place. Thepatient needs to continue medicines (statins, aspirin and many more) life long,at full dose, to prevent a recurrence. 2.Thereasons why the attack occurred in the first place, are a bunch of risk factorslike hypertension,diabetes, highcholesterol levels and smoking. Majority of people who ask us ‘why did Iget this attack? I have no such disease’ actually have mild levels of multiplerisk factors – Fasting blood sugar between 110 to 126. (Impaired fasting glucose -IFG) Mild hypertension – BP between 120/80 to 140/90 Mildly elevated LDL Cholesterol 100 to 130mg% Smoking just 2 cigarettes per day. Most people don’t even consider the above as riskfactors. Combination of two or more of these ‘mild’ riskfactors increase the chance of a heart attack several folds. - 3.Galelio Galileilived up to age 77 years age; Isaac newton 84 years; Michelangelo 88 Years All these people lived and died, much beforeintroduction of sanitation, vaccinations, antibiotics, intensive care units,angioplasty or bypass surgery. Modern medicine has not prolonged ourlife, just prevented early death. 4.Don’t bescared of medicines. Don’t haggle with your doctor every time asking him to somehow reduce themedicines. Majority of them are, by far, quite safe for most of us. A rarereaction makes headlines, but those millions who improve don’t. The aim is toremain healthy and continue with our present lifestyle; whether you are takingone tablet, or ten, doesn’t matter. If you thought, doctors are supposed to know allthese; read the last one. ‘Doctor patients’ arethe ones, who are most difficult to treat; because they ask us exactly thesesame questions :) After all, when sickness strikes, we become mentallyfragile; even thestaunch, ‘die-hard’ non-believer start praying. Q4 What are thewisest quotes you've ever heard or read? A4 HafizSuboor, Feb 22 The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates You have your way. I have my way. As for the rightway, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. – FriedrichNietzsche It is the mark of an educated mind to be able toentertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle Do the difficult things while they are easy and dothe great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must beginwith a single step. – Lao Tzu Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. – MarcusAurelius Happiness and freedom begin with one principle. Some things are within your control and some are not. – Epictetus So in everything, do to others as you would have themdo to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. – Jesus Christ Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living;the other helps you make a life. – Sandra Carey While we may not be able to control all that happensto us, we can control what happens inside us. – Benjamin Franklin The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful,to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived andlived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The two most important days in your life are the dayyou are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks hebecomes. – Mahatma Gandhi The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling,but in rising again after you fall. – Vince Lombardi To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to havechanged often. – Winston Churchill The best and most beautiful things in the worldcannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – HelenKeller Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with itis your gift back to God. – Leo Buscaglia If you cannot do great things, do small things in agreat way. – Napoleon Hill Life goes by very fast. And the worst thing in lifethat you can have is a job that you hate, and have no energy and creativity in.– Robert Greene I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’tquit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ – Muhammad Ali Nobody can makeyou feel inferior without your permission. – Eleanor Roosevelt It’s wise to learn from experience, but it is wiserto learn from the experience of others. – Rick Warren Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get outof it alive. – Elbert Hubbard Take into account that great love and greatachievements involve great risk. – Dalai Lama Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organizedlife. – Immanuel Kant In the end, only three things matter: how much youloved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meantfor you. – Buddha Q5 What animalshave a stronger bite force than a great white shark, but are not known to bedangerous to humans? A5 JoeQuincy,B.A. in Ancient Artifacts, University of Hawaii Maui College (Graduated2008)22h My old neighborhad a parrot named Keith. He’d invite me over for beers and show off all the stuff Keithcould bite through. Once I saw him snap a carpenter’s pencil like a twig. One day when Igot home from work, I saw my neighbor getting out of his car with his handbandaged up. Hesaid he had a few too many beers and tried to get Keith to bite through rebar. Keith got angry and took his left pinky finger off. A month later I came home to see the same thing. Ithought surely there’s no way this happened again. Lo and behold, he pissedKeith off and lost his left middle finger. I asked if it was safe to keep Keith anymore. He said hewasn’t taking anymore chances and had set Keith free after the secondfinger. Somewhere in southern Illinois there’s a large human-hating parrot on the loose with an incredible bite force -- 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]. 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