CULTURAL QA06-2022-06 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Whydo only airports have security check not railway or bus stations In India? A1 Subramaniam Duraisamy IT Analyst11h Thanks for A2APriya. This is the layoutof Chennai Central station area, which is one of the busiest Railway stationsin South India seeing an average footfall of more than 5 lakh passengers perday. You can see ChennaiCentral station area marked as Number 5. There are three directions from which people and enterand exit the station. The Southernentrance facing the main road which has taxi stands, bus stops and opposite toPark and Park Town suburban stations [marked as Number 8 and Number 9respectively]. The Western Sideentrance which has Ripon Building, Central Metro station and subway. The Eastern Sideentrance which is along Wall Tax road, coming off General Hospital [marked asNumber 7]. Imagine 5 lakh people entering and exiting throughmultiple gates along 3 directions. Is is possible or practical to keep anysecurity check counters like airports?. The MambalamRailway station in Chennai has two entrances. From the Western side, peoplecome through the station road market. The Eastern side entrance people comethrough Ranganathan street market. It receives an average footfall of 1lakhpassengers per day. Imagine screening that much people. The primary reason for this is that Railways stations inIndia are never built for orderliness, but built for convenience. Railway stations inIndia were built during an era which did not care for security, orderliness andpunctuality. At the time of British, the Railways were only used as atransportation mechanism for exporting minerals, cotton, food crops from theinteriors to coastal towns like Bombay and Madras to have them shipped toEngland. While there were a few passenger trains as well, but they were notmuch used extensively as they are used now. The Republic era stations like NDLS, Anand Vihar etc..havesome security checks , but for most part we continued withwhat was left to us by the Brits. This is one of the reasons why trains oftenhave security issues more than flights and latter is taken more seriously. Airports on theother hand are more modern and designed for security, orderliness andpunctuality. There is also therisk factor. Air travel is more riskier than traintravel. Its kind of hard to hijack a train and run it into a building. That said modernday Metro stations in India are also designed for security and orderliness. You have limitedentry/ exit options, a concourse from where you buy the ticket and check yourluggage, and the platforms located at a distance. You can compare with theabove and see how contrasting the designs are. The first one was designed forfaster travel and convenience. The second one is designed for safety,punctuality and orderliness. My note- About three months back also I had been checkedfrom the southern entrance near Adyar Ananada bhavanstall for genuineness of travel- ticket to Bangalore. Before that covid test, sensing temperature, ensurewearing mask were done. If security check has to be done, otherentrances are closed, entrance permitted through one gate. At one time Covid check was doneespecially for passengers from Kerala trains, closing other gates,and making a temporary enclosure anddoctors checking the passengers. There is nothing like impossible. Q2 Whymost of the Indian trains are colored in blue? A2 Anubhab Kundu Trains are myfascination...curiosity and special interest May 1 In the era of steamtraction , all Indian Railways coaches used to be coloured maroon. Above - A WP ClassSteam Loco with old maroon broad gauge coaches. Above image is of ametre gauge maroon ICF coach. Back then thesecoaches used vacuum brakes. Vacuum brakes use air pressure to apply brakes viaa single brake pipe. Thus the brakes of such trains were, by default, inreleased condition. If you have seen“The Burning Train” movie based on a similar Japanese movie featuring a bullettrain, you must have seen the scenes where the villain plants a bomb in theloco toolbox and introduces the blockage in brake pipe. But why was he doingthat? The villain was an engineer boiling with envy when his fellow engineer isselected to launch the Super Express. So he decides to fail the brakes deliberately bydestroying the train brakes. The train in the movie is having vacuumbrakes, to the bomb removes the loco pilot and the brake handle from the locousing the time bomb and that separation in the brake system just to make surethat train brakes do not get applied even accidentally. This is an exploit ofthe default-released property of the vacuum brake. Later on when theWestinghouse Air brake was implemented in Indian Railways, the requirement toseparately identify the vacuum braked stock from the newer stock becameevident. Thus IR started using the dual tone blue livery we are soadept to seeing nowadays in many trains that had the brake system upgraded.Air brakes use air pressure to have the brakes released. This means anuncharged brake system with no air will be in fully applied state and canprevent accidents. Above - ICF GeneralCoach Had Super Expressused air brakes, the train brakes would get applied immediately with rapid dropof air pressure and loud hissing sound from the brake system and the villainwould be caught sabotaging the train and punished. My note- Answer is not to the question. Now againmost superfast trains have coaches with red maroon with Aluminium grey.Now the colour system is accordingto the classification of train, Moreover many trains have coacheswith 90% advertisements. I think blue colour coaches are very rare now. Q3 Dobananas ripen faster in a paper bag? A3 Bhuvana Rameshwar Former Teacher,11h Yes. Keep it in apaper bag. Closed with no air movement. It ripens faster. The fruits produce ethylene gaswhen ripening. This gas if not allowed to go to the atmosphere freely theyspeed up ripening. This kind ofripening can be used for chiku (sapota) , custard apple, papaya, mangoes too. At home we keepthem sometimes in our rice sack to ripen faster. We keep them covered in riceand close the lid. My note- In the hot summer in Chennai overripening and decaying soon is the problem with fruits. Most plantains and half ripen purchased becomes edible on thesame day night. After 3 days plantains start decaying. Q4 Whyare bluberries not actually blue? A4 Lucia Garcia Worked at Hospitals May21 Blueberry's name is arbitrary, and blueberry is notresponsible for the color of its name. Blueberries aren'tactually blue, but deeppurple, blueberries are the only truly naturally deep purpleberries, and the pigments that give blueberries their unique color are called anthocyanins. Blueberries are thefruit with the most anthocyanins, and 100 grams of blueberries contain about170 mg of anthocyanins. Studies have shownthat naturalanthocyanins are the most effective antioxidants in the world, andtheir antioxidant capacity is fifty times higher than vitamin E and twentytimes higher than vitamin C. Anthocyanins arethe nemesis of free radicals, which can protect the skin, increase the elasticity and toughnessof the skin, and delay the aging process of the skin. In Europe,anthocyanins are known as "oral cosmetics". The natural anthocyaninsin blueberries can be 100% absorbed by the human body, and anthocyanins can bedetected in the blood 40 minutes after eating blueberries. Blueberries are known as the "King ofAnti-aging" for their well-known anti-agingproperties. At the same time, blueberries are also listed as one of the fivehealthy fruits by the World Food and Agriculture Organization. Q5 Unlikethe earlier generations, where couples would happily have many children, thoughonly husband would be the only earning member, why do many of present daygeneration avoid having any children, inspite of both the spouses earning goodsalaries? A5 Balaji Viswanathan Center-right,moderate conservative.14h Raising a children is a lot, lot more complicated thanwhat it used to be a few decades ago. Here is myexperiences as a millenial. My maternalgrandmother had 8 kids. She likely didn’t even know who studied what class oreven the school name, leave alone being able to guide her kids in education.There was no birthday parties, vacations, planned gifts, special holidaycelebrations etc. My parents took alot more attention as I was an only child. I had birthday parties, gifts,vacations etc. Their goal was not to see me sad ever. I had near unlimited TVtimes, junk food etc. I was with a gaming console as a 5 year old and with norestrictions. For our kids, my wife and I think not only about having abirthday party but also an unique theme for each year careful not to repeatanything. We spend a lot of time on the right kind ofbooks and gifts. And how to ward off the negatives — junk food, screen time etcto prevent the same mistakes we did as children. I try to have far less videogames for my kids than what I had at their age. We pay a closeattention to their skillsets and strengths, and how we can groom them right. Weare recaliberating the approach from our parents and having a little moresterner discipline from our time (but not as much as 2 generations ago)allowing to them to sad at times if it is unavoidable. Raising kids become as much an experience for them as itis for us. All this planningdrains one’s energy and wallets. And as families move a lot, there is also alot less family support for many compared to what the parents had 2 generationsago. Also, women in urban middle class families are well educated and they wantto pursue their careers unlike the women 2 generations ago. This was not thecase in the past — women’s careers or ambitions were not seen as a relevant onefor others, forcing them to sacrifice them in the pursuit of raising kids.Thankfully that is no longer the case in many families. That requiresadjustments to the family size. And many in my generation are raised with very low painthresholds. Many millenial kids were raised by parents who wanted to stopnothing at making kids happy. Many of us don’thave necessary preparations for the hardships of birthing and raising kids.Many become quite tired even to get to two children — the replacement level. Schools and extra-curriculur activities have becomesubstantially expensive, and commute is horrible.Families struggle to just manage the schedules of just 2 kids. The networkcomplexity goes exponential in the number of nodes in the system. Q6 Isthere a way to humanely farm animals? A6 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper May 31 Yes, it can be done - it’s just more expensive.For example, you can use artificial insemination with sex-selected sperm toensure that no more male cattle are born than there is work for, so male calvesdon’t have to be slaughtered, and you can leave the calf with the mother andtake only whatever surplus milk she produces. There are various movements working for this kind offarming. Q7 Whatis breathable air made of? A7 Kancheepuram Narasimhan, formerAviation / Aircraft Instructor nswered 42m ago In Indian cities?Do U know that India has more cities of 10 millions than any other country? Delhi/ Mumbai - 30millions, Kolkatta city 20 millions, Madras, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune,Ahmedabad, Kanpur-Lucknow twin cities - have about or more than 10 millionhumans, We breathe: Our air has SO2= sulfur dioxide, CO, CO2,Nitrous oxide. We got Sulfuric acid rain! True. Do U know Delhi’sAQI= Air quality index? 250! and today 5th June 2022 -in US city of Seattle itis 2! DO U understand? InIndia- breathing air has: only only SO2/ CO2/ CO/ N20. No oxygen. Yet: we 1400millions do live! Do live! Davis Appleton, lives in Southeast Michigan (1968-present)Answered33m ago Oxygen (O2) is the only required component, but you don’twant 100% oxygen unless at low pressure. Nitrogen is themain filler gas in our atmosphere, but inert gases like argon and helium alsowork. You also need to avoid poisonous gases like carbonmonoxide (CO) and limit the amount of gases like carbondioxide (CO2) and ozone (O3). Edward Measure , Retired Physicist, currentAstrophysics Student,Answered 41m ago Mostly nitrogen,oxygen, argon, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. The most importantfor breathing is oxygen, but pure oxygen is both toxic and otherwise dangerous.CO2 and water vapor are needed to keep the planet from freezing and to allowplant growth. Keshav Ahuja , BBA from Institute of InformationTechnology and Management Answered 53m ago Molecules in the air include primarily nitrogen andoxygen as well as water, carbon dioxide, ozone, and many other compounds intrace amounts, some created naturally, others the result of human activity. Q8 Isthere a way to contact passengers in a running train in India? A8 Subhasis Dutta Roy Working in IndianRailways at Indian Railways (2001–present)Updated 1y Go to your neareststation. If the station is far from your area. Then Go to your nearest levelcrossing gate. Try to make understand your necessity for contact withthat person travelling on the train to SM or Gateman. If they understandthen gives them full information about that person which you want to contact,like train number, journey date, etc. SM or Gateman relay the information to the controller. The controller will find the train’s exact position.Relay the information to SM of next stopping station. SM will announce the information after the arrival ofthat train with the name of the passenger. Thus theinformation you want to convey is actually conveyed to the passenger whom youwant to contact. Q9 Sincethe Mississippi flows into the ocean and carries all that mud with it, why isthe river getting deeper or wider over time and eventually disappearing? Also,where does its water come from? A9 Edward Mahoney ProfessionalGeologist Fri The Mississippi used to flow through a delta full ofbayous, shifting sad bars, And islets. Much of the sediment it was carrying wasdropped in the slow moving water of the Delta. The delta wastricky for barge traffic and shipping to navigate. Vessels ran aground and hadto navigate very carefully. The US Army Corps of Engineers dredged deep straightchannels through it to make it better for navigation. Thewater now flows out quickly in these deep straight shipping channels. Itcarries away sediment that would otherwise be deposited. The low lying deltaarea is being eroded, with nothing replacing it.It’s a man made ecologicaldisaster. Q10 Whenthe TTE allots vacant seats to the passengers with WL tickets, does he do thatserially (I mean WL 1 gets the first vacant seat and so on)? A10 D S P CHANDRA SEKHAR Thu This is some what practically impossible.TTE has to alott vacant berths after the clearance of RAC in the train. Online WL tickets would be processed for refund and those passengers arenot eligible to travel even with no. 1 WL. So the remaining WLpassengers are those who are performing their journey with counter tickets.They may be travelling in general coach or with some group of confirmed ticketholders (friends and relations ). TTE can't follow their seniority. Actually TTE must follow like thisafter RAC. 1General WL2.Tatkaal WL3.RLWL 4.PQWL. Normally TTE s give preferenceto the senior one if he simultaneously approached by two persons following theabove WL preferences. 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