CULTURAL QA 04-2024-28 All theBELOW QA are from Quora digest to me on 28-04-2024.
Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers .Compiled andposted by R. Gopala krishnan, on 28-04-2024 Q1 Whatare the mind-blowing facts about Dubai? A1 Manoj Kumar, FinancialAdvisor 8+ years exp.1y 1. The localpeople, called Emiratis, are just 15% of the total population. Majority of thepopulation is split between India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and European countries 2. The Dubai policefleet includes a Lamborghini, Ferrari, and Bentley. They are the cops who makeNFS look realistic. 3. The tallestbuilding in the world, Burj Khalifa, with a 164 floors is in Dubai. 4. Dubai has noaddress system, no zip codes, no area codes and no postal system. Hence, onlineshopping is not right way to shop! 5. There are ATMsin Dubai that dispense gold bars. 6. There is a golfcourse in Dubai that requires 4,000,000 gallons of water a day. 7. The above groundmetro station opened in Dubai 2009. It consists of 42 stations and was built injust 18 months. Yes, folks, they built an entire system is less than two years! 8. Dubai land willbe twice the size of Disneyworld in Florida and is expected to be the largesttourist destination by 2020. Go Alladin! 9. Big festivalslike Dubai shopping festivals, luxury car parade, and an exclusive mustangparade are a showcase of high standard. 10. Do you knowwhat locals prefer to foster as ‘pets’ at home? 11. The BurjKhalifa can apparently be seen from around 90 km away 12. The Dubai Mallis the largest shopping center in the world with over 1,200 stores. Includingmany major brands such as Gymboree, Pottery Barn, Harley Davidson and a bunchof designers. 13. The once upon atime deserted Dubai, is now a prime hub in the world’s economy. 14. Sales of oilconstitute only 6% of Dubai’s economy. The local economy is mainly based onreal estate and tourism. 15. A stunning1,790 sq-mt. of 24-carat gold leaf covers the interior of the Burj Al Arab. 16. In Dubai robotstake part in multimillion dollar camel racing tournaments. 17. The BurjKhalifa is so tall that some of its residents need to wait longer to break fastduring Ramadan. Residents from the 80th and higher floors see the sun longerthan others living in the Burj Khalifa. 18. 40% of physicalgold traded in 2013 occurred in Dubai. All together, it weighed more than 354elephants. 19. The Dubaipolice has a bagpipe band. Even though it’s a Scottish thing, people just lovedit and adopted it. Q2 Whatinformation is communicated when birds sing? A2 Silk Road, Studied at GenerativePre Training15h These modern daydinosaurs, with their shockingly light bones and surprisingly complex brains,have some incredibly clever ways of communicating. Birdsong, thatseemingly joyous symphony of chirps and trills, isn't just about soundingpretty. This is a complexlanguage of sorts, packed with information about love, war, and the best placesto snag them juicy worms. Let's start withthe obvious: attracting a mate. In the bird world,just like in the human one, if you want to make an impression, you have to putsome effort in. A male bird with along, elaborate song is basically advertising his superior genes, intelligence,and ability to find resources. The avianequivalent of flexing them biceps and showing off that fancy car. And the ladies arelistening. A female, if she'simpressed, will respond in her own way, starting off a delightful duet. Things get, a bitterritorial now. While singingattracts mates, it also acts as a big, feathery "Keep Out" sign. That sweet littlesongbird is warning other males to stay off his turf. Birds take theirterritory seriously – it means food, shelter, and a place to raise a family. A complex song letsrivals know that he's strong, resourceful, and ready to fight for what's his. Of course,sometimes it's not just about rivalry and love. Bird communicationcan also be practical. Think of thosequick, sharp alarm calls you hear when a hawk circles overhead. These calls aren'tjust a casual chat – they're urgent warnings, telling other birds to scatterand find cover quick. Some birds evenchange their calls depending on the type of predator, providing a precisedanger report that helps everyone live another day. Birdsong,the language of the dinos.It's not just a pleasant tune. It's a language farolder than our own, filled with secrets, rivalries, and a constant struggle forsurvival. Q3 Humansare practically defenseless. Why don't wild animals attack us more? A3 León S. Reyes, Earning a B.S. inBiology Mar 28 Please ignore thenonsensical answers that people have posted here that animals understand it’s adanger to all their species in the area to attack us. Most animals are notcapable of that kind of logical thinking. A bear doesn’tavoid attacking a human because it thinks other humans will come and kill allthe other bears. Even if a bear was capable of that sort of advanced reasoning,it probably wouldn’t give two figs about other members of its species. Seriously. Bearswill kill cubs that aren’t theirs, they’ll kill other bears that intruded ontheir territory, they’ll eat other bears. They don’t care about each other. Animals, especiallynon-social animals like many predators, do not understand concepts likeextinction or fraternity. This is projecting human-like thought and reasoningonto animals, and it’s beyond silly. This gets even sillier if you factor inherbivores like deer, who humans already go out and kill a great number of justfor sport. We limit it with licenses and permits, but the deer sure don’t knowthat. I answered asimilar question a few years ago here that I think does a fair job ofexplaining why wild animals don’t attack us more. Oh, one more thing.The other answers have been wrong about animal reasoning, but they were rightabout one thing: We’re far from defenseless. Q4 What doyou know that most people don’t? A4 Amit Singh, Wed That of all the 14Prime Ministers having assumed office in independent India, PV Narasimha Raostands out distinctly as the only one who knew the art of computer programming! He got his son tosend him a computer from the US, hired a tutor to learn the intricacies of themachine and went on to write code in BASIC, COBOL & UNIX! How cool is that? Rao was a modernday Chanakya who led India through crucial times building the nation as we knowit today, all the while making a mark as a distinguished scholar as well. He was a polyglotwho knew 17 different languages in all including 9 Indian and 8 foreign onesbut guess what, human languages were not the only ones he excelled at but alsocomputer languages as well which were popular at that time. Back in 1984, theincumbent PM, Rajiv Gandhi in one of his meetings remarked that he intended toopen up electronics and computer imports to India. ‘But the old guard in myparty will not understand,’ is what he had said to make his contempt for hisdefence minister, Rao, apparent who was at a ripe age of 63 then. Computers were justa novelty then - even in the US where researchers were at the forefrontpounding away at all of the possibilities a beast like this could unleash. Theprime minister wanted it in India and thought old fogies like Rao would impedethe induction of new technologies. But what Rajivdidn't know was Rao’s voracious appetite for learning. That evening, he calledup his son, Prabhakara, an engineer in the US. ‘You keep talking about thiscomputer thing. What is it? Send me one,’ Rao said. The next day, Prabhakarasent a prototype to Delhi. Prabhakara also hired a computer specialist to teachhis father. Ever the technophile, Rao bought manuals to read on his own, andwithin fifteen days, told the specialist he was redundant. Over the years, Raowould master two computer languages, COBOL and BASIC, and would also go on towrite code in the mainframe operating system UNIX. Not sure if evenRajiv Gandhi, who is touted as the one who brought the IT revolution in India,could ever do that himself. It was only a matter of time then before Rajiv hadto concede ground and Rao became indispensable. He had a personalinterest in these machines as a little later in his life as PM, he would wakeup at 5 a.m. in his bungalow at the race course road, his official residence asthe prime minister, would walk to the adjoining room and fiddle with hiscomputer until the newspapers arrived at 6 a.m. where he use to type hisreflections on that period in his life in a digital diary he maintained on hiscomputer, which remain to this day private. His personalinterest in computers is also evident from one of his public speeches whileinaugurating the IT-ASIA conference where he could not resist lodging acustomer complaint: ‘I use one package of word processing. For years theupgrades are coming and when I look into the literature of what the upgrademeans . . . I find very little difference . . . I think we should be carefulabout these things. You skip four upgrades, maybe the fifth will be reallyuseful to you. It will mean a real upgrade. Pardon me, saying so. This hashappened to me.’ For me, he remainsthe best PM we could ever afford till date who built the 'New India' as we knowit today. Tributes to this noble soul on his birth anniversary! Q5 Whatare some mind-blowing facts that sound unreal but are actually true? A5 Tulsi Subramanian, B.S. in ComputerScience, Undergraduate Studies (Graduated 2022)6y There is an islanduninhabited by humans in the Bahamas called Pig Beach, which is populatedentirely by swimming pigs. The reason thatartificial banana flavoring doesn’t taste like real bananas is because theflavor was based off of a certain species of banana that went extinct in aplague in the 1950s. There is a theorythat the reason moths and similar insects are attracted to light bulbs isbecause they mistake it for the light of the moon, which they used to use tonavigate before mankind began using artificial light. The first fax wassent while people were still traveling the Oregon Trail. American eggs are illegal in the UK becausethey are washed, while eggs from UK are illegal in America because they areunwashed. Most laugh tracksused in sitcoms today were recorded in the 1950s, which means that every timeyou hear one, it is highly likely that you are listening to dead people laugh. -- 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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