CULTURAL QA06-2022-04 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Is aface towel a conductor or an insulator? A1 Gopala Krishnan, former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now Face towel orTurkey towel when it is dry is an insulator. Face towels are made of cotton.Cotton is an insulator when it is NOT WET Q2 Why in Indiavehicle insurance is mandatory? Whereas life insurance of the driver is notmandatory? A2 Prasanna BhaleraoM. Sc. inElectronics & Physics, Fergusson College, Pune17h There is a slightmisunderstanding here. In India, as wellas everywhere else in the world, 3rd party insurance is mandatory. 3rd party insurance covers damage to life and property ofothers (3rd party) if you run into an accident. Your insurance paysfor the damage and loss. Comprehensiveinsurance covers own vehicle damage in addition to 3rd party.In India, we prefer this because, insurance claim is a lengthy and tediousprocess. If you are not at fault, we would need to claim damages from theperson who is at fault, from his insurance. A police FIR is required and thepolice determine who is at fault. The other party must be present. More oftenthan not, we are the one's who are usually at fault. 3rd party insurance won'tcover damage to your own vehicle if we are at fault. Driver andpassenger insurance is optional because these people may already be having own(separate) insurance. Q3 Whywasn't there 100 seconds to the minute, and 100 minutes to the hour, and shouldit have been? A3 Krister Sundelin E-learning Producer(2020–present)Mon Q: Why wasn't there100 seconds to the minute, and 100 minutes to the hour, A: Blame the Babylonians.They invented the 360 degree circle, the 12 hour days, and the division ofthose into 60 minutes. Andthey did so because they used fractions, not decimals. If you have not yetinvented decimals, fractions are infinitely more useful. “And why is that important?” Well, try todivide 100 with as many numbers as you can. Eventually, you find out that youcan only evenly divide 100 by 2, 4, 5, 10, 25 and 50. Compare that to 60, ahighly divisible number. You can divide it by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and30. And that isimportant if you don’t have calculators doing the calculations for you, and youhave to do it yourself in your head. It is not by chance that we’re still talking aboutdozens, or 60 minutes or 360 degrees. They aresimply simpler to use. I even admit (as a European using SI units) thatImperial units in some cases are more intuitive in everyday situations. Perhapsnot in scientific situations where powers are much easier to do in a decimalsystem, but definitely when getting a 2x4 for building a shed in the garden. Q: and should it have been? A: Well, the French tried itafter the Revolution, and subsequently dropped the idea. Q4 Is itokay to use hand soap for your clothes if you ran out of detergent for thewashing machine? A4 C.S. Friedman, Costume Designer andHistorian Answered 39m ago Yup. Most of thecleaning action is done by the water. Tests comparing clothes washed in soap vs. those washedin plain water found very little difference. The primary purpose ofthe soap is to help release grease and oil from the clothing to it can bewashed away. Hand soap won’t do that as well, as detergent, butit won’t hurt. My note- I recollect in my boyhood days manyused LUX toilet soap as washing soap also. If forgot to carry many usedLifebuoy toilet soap instead of Sunlight washing soap for washing clothes also Q5 How didhistory make Prithviraj Chauhan the 'last Hindu emperor? A5 Balaji Viswanathan History buff1h The last Hindu king was King Gyanendra of Nepal, 2008. The last Hindu kingin India was King Hari Singh of Kashmir, 1952. The last Hinduemperor was Chattrapati Pratap Singh, 1818. The actual power rested with BajiRao II. The heights of Maratha empire as one of the world’s largest empires wasachieved under Balaji Balaji Rao (1760). Marathas also ruled Delhi at thattime.By no metric wasPrithiviraj Chauhan either an emperor or the last Hindu emperor. Q6 Willmosquitoes breed in a small fish pond, or will the fish consume the mosquitolarvae? The fish are overgrown goldfish. A6 Ken Saladin Textbook author andprofessor emeritus May 20 The best thing forcontrolling mosquitoes in a small pond is to add some Gambusia,also known as mosquito fish. They’re cheap, small, breed rapidly, andhave a ravenous appetite for mosquito larvae. Q7 Why doelectrical appliances draw more current during low voltage? Will it have aneffect on appliances? A7 Gopala Krishnan, former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now I am trying toanswer the question. The equipment has a constant wattage. By ohm’ law W=V x I .Voltage islow. So to achieve W, I has to more. Hence more current is drawn. However drawing more current is difficult in practice.Hence equipment like air conditioner trip during low voltage. Q8 Why doIndian streets have so many wires hanging overhead? What happens to the wiresin more developed countries? A8 Gopala Krishnan, former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered justnow I am from India,Chennai. Once telecom wires were carried on poles on one side of the road andelectricity wires were taken on the opposite side. These telecom wires at thattime were many about 30-40 sometimes. Now most of the lines are takenunderground in cities. In the period of mobiles, still many use land phone forthe simple reason, in case of tower failure ONLY LAND LINESHELP. Though efforts arebeing made to carry power lines through streets by underground cable, and raiseat poles, the works are completed only partially. Most of thehanging cables are DATA CABLES BY private operators, and private CABLE TVoperator wires.One can observe these wires are insulated. They do not properly maintaintheir system. Q9 Why areLondon Underground carriages so small? A9 Nicholas Stone Lives in London(1993–present)Wed London Undergroundcarriages are so small because they need to fit into tunnels, many of which were built between 1863and 1930. Their size and profile gives the service its widely usedname - the Tube. Many of the tunnelswere built with manual labour, shovels and digging. They were dug in an age of steam locomotives andhorse drawn power. There were no tunnel borrowing machines, no laserguided instruments and no government money. Private companies raising money to build the lines. Theresult were tunnels with smaller profile and narrow carriages. The exception aresub surface lines of today’s Circle, Hammersmith & City, District andMetropolitan lines which were built with cut and cover methods. Streets weredug up, trenches cut, track laid and the streets covered again on top of thenew works. The Victorian line was the first line of the post war -with more generous tunnel profiles to reduce resistance.The Elizabeth line tunnels through central London accommodate full size trains. A new train for theGlasgow subway in Scotland. The carriages have an even smaller profile than theLondon Underground and operate on a narrow gauge track of 1,219 mm. Credit BBCnews. Other cityunderground lines have similar smaller carriages - including the even narrowerGlasgow Subway with a narrow 1,129 rail gauge. Budapest’s kisföldalatti (littleunderground) line 1 is also noted for its smaller carriages. This line wasopened in 1896, the world’s third oldest. Q10 Why issheep shearing not considered animal cruelty? A10 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper May 25 Because most breeds of domestic sheep do not moultnaturally, so if they aren’t shorn everyyear their fleece builds up until it causes serious health problems. Arguably,it was cruel of our ancestors to breed sheep that can’t moult their own fleeces.But we can’t go back in time and undo it: here and now, we have to either shearmost breeds of sheep, or kill them, because leaving them alive but not shearingthem *would* be cruel. All the above QA are from Quora website on 04 -06- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on04-06-2022 -- 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]. 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