CULTURAL QA03-2022-13 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Ihave a car registered in Gujarat, and I'll soon be relocating to Bangalore (notsure if I stay permanently there due to the nature of my job). Do I need tocarry any documents so I can drive there? A1 Bala Senthil Kumar Livedin Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Mar 2 Not in any normal courseof driving from one state to another. If you were to stay inKarnataka over a longer period of time, you would have to pay taxes inKarnataka, but there isno way for any traffic policeman to prove you have done that. The onus is onyou for proving you haven’t been in Karnataka longer. This “grace” period wasthirty days, but it was struck down by a High court ruling and is now 12months, after which you will have to pay the Life Time Tax in Karnataka. My note- Driving licenceor copy is to be carried. Copies of Documents about the vehicle and ownership are to be there invehicle. Q2 Whydo trains have steering wheels? Doesn't a train run on a fixed rail track? A2 Andrew Naylor I am aRailway enthusiast With railway Photographs21h The question shows areal lack of understanding railways. It is the track that steers atrain with the signal man changing points ( Switches in American) at junctions. The wheel just visible isthe Parking Brake control Other Locomotives, Class 76 & 77, have a power control that might bemistaken for a steering wheel Q3 Whatis the reason that LEDs are much more power efficient than traditional lightbulbs? A3 Martin Lesley, PhD andpublished papers Answered Thu They don’t heat anything toemit light. Incandescent(traditional) bulbs give out a lot of waste heat. If you heat a metal enough itglows (red hot then white hot) ie. it emits light. This is the basis of anincandescent (traditional) bulb but that heat required to emit light is(usually) wasted energy. LEDscreate light by a different method so do not emit heat. Alight-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source. It emits light whenan electric current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombinewith electron holes, releasing energy in the form of photons. There is no(wasteful) heating required. Incandescent (traditional) bulbs are efficient if you want heat as well!In a room heated and controlled by a thermostat they are quite efficient.However if you don’t want any heat emitted, only light, then much of the energyis wasted as heat as a bi-product. Q4 Dorabbits really like carrots? A4 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitals Fri Carrots are a bit sweet, with asugar content of about 7 to 8 percent. If the rabbiteats too much carrot, it is easy to cause the rabbit's mouth and digestivesystem problems. Rabbits are herbivores. The digestive system of a rabbit accounts forabout 10% to 20% of its body weight, and its structure is very special. The digestive system of rabbits is completely different from that of catsand dogs. Rabbits needa high intake of crude fiber to keep gastrointestinal motility continuously andflush out toxins and bacteria. Grass contains a lot of crude fiber,wild rabbits only eat grass, so wild rabbits are healthy and rarely get sick. In addition to grass, wildrabbits never eat other food, so the average life expectancy of wild rabbits ismore than 10 years old. Grass is the staple food of rabbits. In addition to a large amount ofcrude fiber, grass is also rich in protein, vitamins and various minerals,making it the first choice for rabbit food. Q5 Whatare some places around the world with weird names? A5 Aashish Kumar DimriOne who loves India Mar 4 Buffalo : Bhainsa means Buffaloin English . It is a smallrailway station in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh in India. Billy Goat : Kala Bakra (blackgoat) is a small villagein Jallandhar in Punjab in India. Fish city : Machalipatanammeans Fish city. It is a renownedcity in Andhra Pradesh in India . Drink : Daru means hard drink.It is a small but knownIndian Railway station in Jharkhand in India. Pimple : Pimple Saudagar (apimple faced merchant) is a knownplace in Pune in Maharashtra in India. Donkey : Gadha is a village inGujarat in India. Conclusion : “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by anyother name would smell just as sweet.”: William Shakespeare Note : Some of the names have been officially changed, but still beingused . Q6 Whichis better for treatment in India, private or government hospitals? A6 Jagdip Madaan SeniorOrthopaedic Surgeon Feb 10 Both are gutters. Government hospitals do not have infrastructure but most of placesdoctors are paid well. You can start arrangements for funeral if your seriouspatient is in government hospital. Advantages planning of funeral can be done. They say think about positive things everywhere. Pvt hospitals wouldn't allow you to get treated easily. They will make simple headacheas Cancer of brain and operate. They will keep dead patient on ventilator till you stopdepositing advance money. Advantages-No quarrel for property among brothers because your house will be sold whiletreatment. No house no ghagda.Sarcasm Q7 Whatis homeostatic? A7 Ken Saladin Formerprofessor of histology (microscopic anatomy)22h It’s the adjective form of homeostasis—which means the tendency of an organism tomaintain fairly stable internal conditions in spite of changes in the externalenvironment or challenges to the body’s stability. Two examples are theway the body maintains its internal temperature within narrow limits in spiteof great fluctuations in the daily temperature around us, and theway it maintains bloodglucose level within narrow limits despite big changes incarbohydrate intake from one time of day to another. The body has self-correcting homeostatic mechanisms for monitoring theseconditions and activating corrective responses to excessive deviations from therange. Many but not all of them are hormonal and neural mechanisms (hormonalfor blood glucose, neural for body temperature, for example). Q8 Whyare parachutes not used on commercial planes? A8 Susanna Viljanen Worksat Aalto University Feb 21 Because:Most accidents occur at take-off and landing, where parachutes are of no use. They add unnecessary take-off weight Most people do not know how touse paracutes Airliners fly at 10 km altitude, where air is too thin to breathe.Theairspeeds of airliners are 900+ km/h which are way too fast for parachuting. My note- Indian aeroplanes carry a yellow coat dress which on wearing make apassenger float in air, if I am correct. Q9 Isaw an animal that was black and white and had a long nose. It went under thecar. What was it? A9 Claire Jordan Degreein biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper17h You need to tell us whatcountry you live in. Ifyou’re in Europe, probably a badger. If in Asia, maybe a stink-badger (which isactually closer to a skunk). Probably not an actual skunk because their nosesare short. Depending on *how much* white was on it it could also be a black fox witha white tail-tip. Do tell us what country you live in - it would be a big help Q10 Whendid humans first consider the possibility of alien life? A10 Michael Gogins B.A. inComparative Religion, University of Washington (Graduated 1984)29m There are elements of what we would to consider “science fiction”including voyages to the Moon and other extra-terrestrial bodies, alien beings, and flyingmachines beginning in the very earliest literature, such as the Epicof Gilgamesh or the Ramayana. There is not a clear separation of science from myth in these stories,because the authors had little scientific training. In short, the thought of lifebeyond the Earth is as early as the realization there are places beyond theEarth. Q11 Iwant to tell about my mother’s condition. She has lost her smell, but taste isthere. From 3 months she is suffering from this. Which doctor should I consult? A11 Ken Saladin Textbookauthor and professor emeritus Wed You don’t say how old she is, but people’s senses of smell and taste tendto decline in old age. This sensory loss can make food less appealing and issometimes a factor in malnutrition among the elderly—losing interest in eatingbecause it’s less pleasurable or even unpleasant in some ways. Even I find mostfood repulsive if I can’t smell or taste it very well. Whether smell (olfaction) typically declines earlier than taste(gustation), as in your mother’s case, I don’t know. Aside from age, there arenumerous other things that can cause loss of olfaction Q12 Whyis it assumed that the ancestors of black people living in Africa 100,000 yearsago had black skin when they could have been white and later evolved to havedarker skin? A12 Claire Jordan Degree inbiology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper8h We don’t know what skin colourour ancestors had when they were still furry. Our closest living relatives are chimps and bonobos, and bonobos havevery dark skin while chimps tend to be pink, under the fur. But we can be surethat when they lost their fur - which would have happened millions, nothundreds of thousands of years ago - our ancestors developed dark skin at the same time,since they were in Africa, and living out on the open plains, and without darkskin they would have died out from skin cancer and spina bifida. Initially, however, they probablyweren’t “black” as such. They evolved in the same sort of area where theKhoiSan now live, so they were probably the same kind of golden mid-tan the KhoiSan are. They would then haveevolved darker skins, approaching true black, as they spread north towards theequator. Profile photo for Matt Riggsby Q13 Where did civilization actuallybegin, Egypt or somewhere else? A13 Matt Riggsby MAArchaeological Studies, Boston University Feb 17 Egypt and somewhere else.Several elses, in fact. Civilization—which I’m using in the technical, academic sense ofcomplex urban society—was independently developed at least six times around theworld. It first appeared in southern Mesopotamia and coastal central Peru.Within the next few centuries, it had popped up in Egypt and the Indus valley.This was followed some time thereafter by the Yellow river valley in China andsoutheastern Mexico. One thread of civilization arose in Egypt, but there wereothers. Q14 Whatdoes "at the top of your lungs" mean? A14 Karla Gunnyon ,Assistant Manager (2019-present) Answered 27m ago Well your lungs and heartare actually located right behind your spin so the TOP of ur lungs would meanthe tip of point meeting your organs,I believe. 2nd answer - MDAbdullah, knows Spanish Answered23m ago The trachea, commonly known asthe windpipe, is a tubeabout 4 inches long and less than an inch in diameter in most people. Thetrachea begins just under the larynx (voice box) and runs down behind thebreastbone (sternum). The trachea then divides into two smaller tubes calledbronchi: one bronchus for each lung 3rd ANSWER -Mark Shainblum, BA English with Creative Writing & History, Concordia University,Montreal (1985)Answered Feb 26, 2019 “Getting something off yourchest,” means saying something that has been bothering you for along time. It's almost almost like it was a weight that was sitting on yourchest. Q15 DoesSweden has universal healthcare? A15 Claire Jordan Degree inbiology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper17h Other than the US, every developed country and many developing ones hasuniversal healthcare. Thereare several different ways of organising it, and they don’t all work out aswell as Sweden’s, but all countries at least try to care for all their citizensat an affordable price. All the above QA are from Quora website on 12-03- 2022. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on13-03-2022 -- 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/876389037.1038992.1647131459507%40mail.yahoo.com.
