CULTURAL QA 12-2021-12 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 Does the length of a ground wirematter? A1 Gopala Krishnan , former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now Yes is my answer. The groundearth should be perfect. Length of earth wire should be copper and it should beflat/ thick. There should be least resistance for earth wire. Hence I haveanswered length matters. Earth resistance should be maximum five ohms.Preferable is 2 ohms. There should notbe joints in the copper earth lead. Normally earth lead is not covered since itshould be visible to inspect break etc. However one should ensure childrenshould not touch it. Q2 Is there anything more importantthan health? A2 Aashish Kumar Dimri News andPolitical Analyst Nov 8 Old : Lal Krishnaadvani -former Indian Deputy Prime minister turned 94 years old today. Habits : He isknown for his healthy habits. He stays away from smoking, hard drinks; nonvegetarian food; over eating.He is still a movie buff ; bibliophile; spiritual.He always stays positive. Young : PramodMahajan; Gopinath Munde ; Ananth Kumar; Arun Jaitley; Anil Dave ; Sushma Swaraj- proteges of LK Advani-died young Habits : Many ofthem were foodies and suffered from stress . Hectic : These wellread leaders had a very busy political life; and missed care free days. Conclusion :“Health is not valued till sickness comes”: Thomas Fuller Note : Kindly adopt good habits and stay positive. Q3 Why did humans evolve flat feet withtoes that are less functional than fingers, but other apes evolved to havesomewhat hand-like feet? A3 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Fri Because humans are adapted for fast running, and don’tclimb much. This of other large animals thatrun fast - horses, catle, wolves and so on. Not one of them has proportionatelylong toes, because running at speed with a heavy body swaying back and forthwould probably cause those toes to break. Q4 What have you had to cut down on oreliminate because of inflationary prices? A4 Gopalkrishna VishwanathWillingresponder to survey questionsFri I have cut down on several expenses but the reasonsare not always due to inflationary prices.I am now leading a retired life. I have cut down onpetrol consumption. Reason: I don’t goout much due to the pandemic. Besides, I migrated from Bengaluru city to asmall retirement community in a much smaller place called Devanahalli. Everyplace I need to visit is less than 3 to 4 kilometers from where I live unlikein Bengaluru where I often had to travel between 10 to 15 kilometers. Thehigher petrol prices these days are more than compensated by reduced distancesthat I need to travel and also by the reduced need to travel. I now ordereverything online and get it delivered rather than go out to get them. Visitingshops and banks are now very occasional. I have not just cutdown on eating outside but totally stopped doing so. Reason: healthconcerns, avoiding public places due to the pandemic, and lack of confidence inthe hygiene standards adopted in the popular crowded eating houses in the placeI now live in. The top-class or exclusive restaurants are too expensive andserve food that is too rich for me to digest. I have cut down onthe cost of clothes. I have not bought new clothes in the last 4 years. Reason: I don’tneed to. I have too many already and have now been giving my old clothes away. I have not traveledto any new place for more than two years. Reason: Thepandemic. The ticket costs may have increased but I am not affected. In spite ofinflationary prices, I have not cut down on medicines and medical insurance. Ipay whatever it costs and have no option in this matter. Rising prices have notaffected me much. My new lifestyle does not need me to spend much. I have noloans to clear. No EMIs to pay. No children to educate. No office or workplaceto commute to. The only definiteand constant costs are food, utilities, and the costs of service in theretirement home I am now living in. They have remained the same for the pastfour years. Maintenance costs have risen a little but there is no option but topay them. It is not possible to cut down on those costs. I also don’t haveto save any longer. I now only need to take care that I don’t spend more thanwhat I have saved for my retired life. The onlyuncertainty and fear are sickness and hospitalization. I have medical insurancebut the premiums are rising every year with advancing age. I live with that. The only fastrunners I can think of with long toes are ostriches, emus and rheas, and theygot tound it by making their toes so massive and strong that the main toe islike a foot in itself. Q5 Are induction utensils used on a gasstove if electricity is gone? A5 Gopala Krishnan , former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered justnow YES. All types ofvessels in any metal can be kept on LPG stoves. For induction stove special bottom is required forHindalium and Aluminium pressure cookers, saucepan etc. Stainlesssteel can be used in both. Q6 What are the main predators ofhealthy adult elephants? A6 Nathaniel Rice Bi, animal researcherTue None, really. Yes, this elephant is only about a year old. Elephants aresimply… too big too dangerous for most predators. As seen above, the occasionalopportunist lion might try to snack on a youngster or finish off a dying one,but - realistically speaking - a healthy adult African elephant has no natural predators (save forhumans, of course). The same holds truefor Asian elephants. Eventhe mighty tigers make a run for it when confronted by an elephant, as seenabove. Of course, notevery elephant-tiger encounter has to be violent. Tigers are smart - they knowwhen they’re in over their heads. The tiger in this video got up and moved themoment the elephant came towards him. Elephant ComesAcross Tiger While Walking. Watch What Happens Next Healthy, adult elephants have no naturalpredators. Big cats know this, and as a result respect their space. Q7 Is it true that phytoplanktonproduces half of the oxygen we breathe? A7 Ken SaladinEmeritus professor ofbiologyDec 3 More than half, I think. Here is the assessment of theNational Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygenproduction on Earth comes from the ocean. Themajority of this production is from oceanic plankton — drifting plants,algae, and some bacteria that can photosynthesize. One particular species,Prochlorococcus, is the smallest photosynthetic organism on Earth. But thislittle bacteria produces up to 20% of the oxygen in our entire biosphere That’s a higherpercentage than all of the tropical rainforests on land combined. How muchoxygen comes from the ocean? At least half ofthe oxygen produced on Earth comes from the ocean, mostly from tinyphotosynthesizing plankton. But marine life also uses roughly the same amountof oxygen to breathe, for cellular respiration, and in the decompositionprocess. Here is that humblelittle Prochlorococcus that’s probably keeping us all alive. Astonishing, isn’tit? Single-celledbacterium works 24-7, converting light to energy by day, moonlighting at night Researchers atWashington University in St. Louis have gained the first detailed insight intothe way circadian rhythms govern global gene expression in Cyanothece, a typeof cyanobacterium (blue-green algae) known to cycle between photosynthesisduring the day and nitrogen fixation at night. Somethingalways to be borne in mind when we think of how much of the earth’s oxygen isproduced by the oceans and forests is that those ecosystems also consume a lotof it. For example, the floor of a tropicalrainforest is a compost of rapidly decaying matter, and decay is anoxygen-consuming process. It offsets the oxygen being produced by the forest’sgreenery. By how much, I don’t know. Trees and phytoplankton, after all, don’tjust carry out oxygen-generating photosynthesis; they also carry outoxygen-consuming aerobic respiration, the same as you and I and all otheraerobic organisms do. The netcontribution of such ecosystems as the oceans and forests (not to mentiongrasslands, tundra, etc.) to the level of free atmospheric oxygen may besignificantly different from their gross production. The Amazon rainforest, forexample, is thought to make a net zero contribution to the world’s atmosphericoxygen. Why the Amazonrainforest doesn’t really produce 20% of the world’s oxygen Of the manyimportant reasons to worry about the thousands of fires raging in the world’slargest rainforest, oxygen supply is not one of them. Oxygen generationand consumption even in one ecosystem vary from place to place, from season toseason, even from hour to hour (e.g. day v. night). So we have to ask,hypothetically, does the destruction of a million acres of rainforest portend aproportionate loss of atmospheric oxygen, or does it also mean that acreagewill then consume less of it? What are the relative gains and losses to theatmosphere? There are many reasons to be alarmed about rainforest destruction;it can’t be viewed in simple terms of how much oxygen it produces. “There are a number of reasons why you would want to keep the Amazon inplace, oxygen just isn’t any one of them,”remarks Earth systems scientist Michael Coe , who directs the Amazon program atthe Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts. (same as previous citedsource) Q8 Why can we as humans not eat thesame meal every day for our whole lives like dogs and cats? What makes us sodifferent biologically? A8 Chris Ebbert I have served many cats. Wed In theory, not even dogs and cats should be eatingthe same every day, because it would mean theirnutrients would get lopsided, and they would develop deficiencies. But I do agree thatwe humans are being crybabies when it comes to food variety. I’ve never had a problem eating the same meal fora whole week if it’s good. It’s how I cook, in fact. When I make lunch, I makeenough of it to be able to freeze or refrigerate the rest, and then I eat itfor the rest of the week. No big deal. It’s all about whatone is used to. And one week isn’t a long enough time to develop deficiencies. Q9 How do camels store so much water intheir body? Is it stored in their hump for future need? A9 Ken Saladin Textbook author andprofessor emeritus Sep 28 No—the camel humpdoesn’t store water. It’s mostly fat. Food is veryscarce in the desert, so when camels are forced to do without it, they live ontheir stored fat. Other animals with a large store of body fat, such as bears,store it under the skin nearly everywhere on the body. If a camel did that, itwould act like a thick blanket retaining body heat in a habitat that’s alreadyblistering hot, and they’d be in danger of hyperthermia and death. Thus, camels, while they need to carry a lot of fat around with them,store it in these humps away from the body wall. When camels oxidizestored fat by aerobic respiration, it generates a lot of water as a by-product.This is called metabolic water, and is enough for them to live on for as longperiods without drinking water. Another desert mammal, the kangaroo rat, isalso able to live indefinitely on its own metabolic water; it can go its wholelife without drinking, although it will readily drink water when it’savailable. These animals also get water in the early morning by lickingcondensation from rocks and plants before the day heats up and evaporates it.When water is available, a camel can drink up 30 gallons in 13 minutes. The kidneys ofcamels and kangaroo rats are very efficient at conserving water, so they don’tlosemuchin their urine. Camels are also said to produce very little sweat, althoughthere’s some controversy about that.[1] Footnotes [1] How aCamel’s Fur Coat Keeps It Cool — Biological Strategy — AskNature Posted byGeriSilver Oct 7 “When water is available, a camel can drink up30 gallons in 13 minutes.” Q10 What is the difference between 11Rudras and Rudra (husband of Sati and Parvati)? Were they born together (assons of Brahma)? A10 Divyansh Saxena Thu The 11 Rudras are expressions of Lord Rudra, they comeunder Rudra. They are same yet different. Rudrais none other than Lord Shiva also known as Shankar, Mahesh, Mahadev, Sadashiv,Shambhu, Adi Dev, Bhava, Mahakaal and many other names. He is the husband ofSati/Parvati (Remember that Sati and Parvati are not different, Maa Adi Shaktifirst took birth as Sati and then as Parvati.. so Sati and Parvati are same..So it looks like Lord Shiva is the husband of 2 Goddesses, but he has only onewife i.e. Shakti who took birth as Sati and Parvati also known as Bhavani,Gauri, Durga, Mahadevi, Mahakaali, Rudrani etc). All the above QA are from Quora website on 11-12- 2021. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan ,78, former AGM Telecom Trivandrum on 12-12-2021 -- 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/234881922.747009.1639277272857%40mail.yahoo.com.
