A1 APING WITH THE APES AND MONKEYS WHEN THE EARTH HAD LONG OVERSTEPPED IN ALL THESE 95% dna MATCHING ETC. The West is turning towards what Nasadiya suktam said in the Rig Vedam. Without understanding the subject please do not meddle in unknown area Thank u A3 This is what I term as over enthusiasm and unintentional deliberations to create some impact; the Q & A does not serve any purpose; because someone wrote something the copy cat wanted to copy and paste, without understanding what is that. A project just contemplated in 1930, discussed in Kruschev time , broke the earth with a nuclear bomb, and wanted 250 such blasts. went down silently as , balance of eco and impact of nuclear fuel were harangued by many nations. Now Russia is planning to revive. Even the media discusses the present Ukrainian war itself to catch up lands for diversions GOK. A5 What is the use of building such walls now? A7 I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT ANSWER -APPEARS TO AND RUNNING ONLY PARALLEL; EINSTEIN AND DAWKINS SAID OTHERWISE; PERHAPS YOU MAY EXPLAIN THE Q AND A AS A SCIENTIST , HAD YOU UNDERSTOOD. The line of curvature, rotational of planets, ship mast seen only later the ship is seen etc are not applicable to the sun's rays sir?. A8 Very old news . Venice too has floating P O . In Kashmir we can buy stamps acoss the boat. Indeed Maths invented here including Zero, but the west is adamant in telling IT IS EUCLID Greece. Have you read it and analysed?. Maybe you are trying to understand from INCREDIBLE INDIA . BUT THERE IS ONE LATEST VERSION QUITE INTERESTING AND i WAS SURPRISED AS TO HOW THE COGITO ERGO SUM?. SEE THE MAP DRAWN: [image: WhatsApp Image 2023-04-10 at 07.09.48.jpg]An NRI of America, who is also the CEO of an American company, has RE-DESIGNED the Indian Map, to explain to his employees, that only according to the population of India EACH STATE (STATE) WISE) has almost the same population as that of which country in the world? That NRI has written the name of that country in place of the name of every state in the map of India (for example, the population of Uttar Pradesh is equal to the population of Brazil). At the same time, he also explained to his employees that * handling the power of India means that the Prime Minister of India is simultaneously handling the population of how many countries. IT'S SUPERB A10 Interestingly cat has 140 facts unknown many and 10 are here rest you may read elsewhere : - 1 Unlike dogs <https://www.factretriever.com/dog-facts>, cats do not have a sweet tooth. Scientists believe this is due to a mutation in a key taste receptor.[5] - 2 When a cat chases its prey, it keeps its head level. Dogs <https://www.factretriever.com/dog-facts> and humans bob their heads up and down.[12] - 3 The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”[8] - 4 A group of cats is called a “clowder.”[9] - 5 A cat can’t climb head first down a tree because every claw on a cat’s paw points the same way. To get down from a tree, a cat must back down.[12] - 6 Cats make about 100 different sounds. Dogs <https://www.factretriever.com/dog-facts> make only about 10.[12]
- 7 Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in Asia.[10] - 8 There are more than 500 million domestic cats in the world, with approximately 40 recognized breeds.[14] - 9 Approximately 24 cat skins can make a coat.[7] - 10 While it is commonly thought that the ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, the oldest known pet cat was recently found in a 9,500-year-old grave on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. This grave predates early Egyptian art depicting cats by 4,000 years or more KR IRS 11423 On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 16:57, 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 < [email protected]> wrote: > *CULTURAL QA 04-2023-10* > > Q1 Are apes more closely related to monkeys than humans? If so, > why do we have a common ancestor with monkeys but not with apes (gorillas > and chimpanzees)? > > A1 Claire Jordan, Degree in biology and folklore; programmer, > shop owner, secretary on newspaper 51m > > No - in fact humans are a type of ape. And of course we have common > ancestors with other apes. > > 30mya - Simian primates split into Platyrrhines (called New World monkeys > although the first one lived in North Africa) and Catarrhines. > > 25mya - Catarrhines split into Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys) and > Hominoidae (apes). > > 15mya - Hominoidae split into Hylobatidae (gibbons and siamangs) and > Hominidae (great apes). > > 11mya - Hominidae split into Ponginae (orangutans) and Homininae. > > 8mya - Homininae split into Gorillini (gorillas) and Hominini. > > > > 7mya - Hominini split into Panina (common chimps and bonobos) and Hominina > (humans and proto-humans). > > Q2 What are some interesting facts about mobile phones? > > A2 Akash Bahetra, Former Student Updated 5y > > Mobile phones can save your life- Shocked ? Confused ? > > Yes !! Mobile phones Can actually sometimes save human's life . > > I was just going through the news and i saw a women claiming that her > iphone saved her life at the Manchester Sucide Bombing Incident. > > You can See this post by Steve Bridgett > > She Said Her iphone deflected flying shrapnel while she was talking on the > phone. > > This is the picture of the iphone after the incident. > > I also Read One More News About Nokia Mobile saving a life of a man in > afghanistan from a bullet . > > Here's the tweet of peter skillman , a Microsoft employee of the team that > worked on that phone. > > > > Sometimes Mobile Phones Can do extraordinary things :) > > Q3 Can you tell about Desert of Ghost ship conversion? > > A3 Kathleen Pennell's Posts,Posted by Jo Mburu Fri > > Desert Of Ghost Ships only 30 years ago, this was home to our planet’s 4th > largest inland water mass; an ancient sea so vast, *even Alexander the > Great wrote of his struggles to cross it.* > > In the 1960s, the Soviet Union began diverting the Amu Darya and the Syr > Darya; the two major rivers which supplied the vast majority of water to > the Aral Sea, in order to irrigate their massive cotton plantation complex. > > Q4 The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is > 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge > used? > > A4 Emily PalmerApr 1 > > *Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English > engineers designed the first US railroads.* Why did the English build > them like that? > > *Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the > wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used*. So, why did 'they' use > that gauge then? > > Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools > that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. > Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? > > Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break > more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, > that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? > > Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including > England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. > > And what about the ruts in the roads? > > Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to > match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the > chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of > wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 > feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an > Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. > > So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and > wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. > Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the > rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) > > Now, the twist to the story: > > When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big > booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are > solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their > factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have > preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by > train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the > factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had > to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the > railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide > as two horses' behinds. > > So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's > most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years > ago by the width of a horse's ass. > > And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? *Ancient horse's > asses control almost everything.* > > Q5 The Great Wall of China took 2,500 years to make. Considering > the resources and technology available today, how long would it take if the > wall was made today? > > A5 CaiLei, Lives in China (1975–present)Sat > > The Great Wall is not a single project, but a series of projects. > > Each dynasty in China built its own Great Wall. > > *There are Qin Great Wall, Han Great Wall, Tang Great Wall...Ming Great > Wall, some are expanded on the basis of the original Great Wall, and some > are newly built.* > > The Qin Great Wall is only 1 meter high, it can only stop cavalry, and it > is mostly built with gravel. Distributed in Gansu, Ningxia Hui Autonomous > Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and even where the Qingchuan > River enters the sea in North Korea. The Qin Dynasty was from 221 BC to 227 > BC, After all, the construction technology at that time was not very > developed, and the story of Meng Jiangnu crying and causing the Qin Great > Wall to collapse is just a fictional rumor; > > The Great Wall of Xinjiang in the Tang Dynasty was mostly rammed earth, > and Xinjiang is arid and has little rain, so the choice of local building > materials is limited; > > The Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty was built with glutinous rice as an > adhesive and bricks. What you see when traveling in Beijing is usually > the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. > > My note- Informative answer for me. > > Q6 What is obsolescence, and what are some examples? > > A6 Loring Chien, Former Principal Engineer at Fortune 1000 > Company (2002–2016)Mar 31 > > A Ford model T car is obsolete. At one time it was state of the art and a > bargain at the price. > > But todays cars are faster, safer, more comfortable, more practical. More > stylish and meet umpteen safety regulations for crash safety, fuel economy, > lighting, seat belts, airbags, Not to mention things that improve our > driving experience, GPS, adaptive cruise control lane departure, > auto-braking and in some cases self driving. Auto parking, TPMS, heated > seats air conditioning and heating, intermittent and multispeed wipers, > auto headlights, radio entertainment you name it. > > *Not that people don’t ever drive Model T for nostalgia sake, but its no > longer a daily driver. But its obsolete, can’t meet standards and can’t > meet expectations for a car anymore.* > > When a thing starts to become obsolete, it is in the stage of obsolescence. > Today, film cameras meet that. They are still used but mainly for > nostalgia. Incandescent bulbs in obsolescence, you can still buy a few, but > LEDs have replaced them. > > Q7 How can we see diverging sun rays if the sun were really > 93,000,000 miles away? > > A7 Wayne Boyd, Philosopher, published author, science writer. Apr > 6 > > These train tracks appear to converge, do they not? It’s called > perspective. > > VP in this image is called the Vanishing Point. Neither the road nor the > train tracks actually converge into a point. They just look like they do > because the farther the things are, the smaller they appear. > > The Sun is 93 million miles away. All the sun rays point to the sun’s > disk, 93 million miles away. Although from this position it looks like > the rays of the Sun are not parallel, they are absolutely parallel. It is > perspective that makes them appear to converge at a vanishing point. > > Q8 What are some of the interesting facts about India? > > A8 Angel Singh, Lives in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India > (2004–present)Updated 1y > > 1. Only 3% of Indians pay Income Tax ie. around 40,579,268 (according to > the population in 2019). > > 2. The number of people (ie. around 23 million) travelling on India's > trains each day is equal to the population of Australia. > > *3. India is the 2nd populous country and also the 7th largest country in > the world.* > > 4. India has more over 300,000 mosques. > > • Actually there are more mosques in India than any other Islamic country > on Earth. > > 5. There's a village in Maharashtra named Shani Shingnapur that has no > doors and locks in the houses.• Villagers believed that God Shani, the God > of Saturn, will punish anyone attempting theft. > > ***6. The World's Only Floating Post Office is in Srinagar's Dal Lake in > India. > > • It also has a museum inside and being the Only Floating Post Office in > the world, makes it a unique piece of architecture. > > 7. There's a village named Snapdeal.com Nagar in Muzaffarnagar district in > Uttar Pradesh. > > • It was named so, as the e-commerce website installed 15 hand-pumps in > the village so the villagers do not have to walk miles to fetch water. > > You can see the Snapdeal logo sticked everywhere in the village. > > 8. The Indian National Kabbadi Team was the only team to won all the > Kabbadi World Cups before the game played against Iran in 2020. > > 9. Snakes & Ladders was originated in Ancient India.• It was used as a > part to teach moral instructions and karma in early centuries. > > 10. The World's Highest Rail Bridge in being built in Jammu&Kashmir.• *It > is being constructed at a height of 359 metres from the riverbed of the > Chenab river and is 1.3km long and 35metres higher than the Eiffel Tower.* > > 11. A lake named Lonar Lake in Maharashtra was formed by a meteor 52,000 > years ago. > > 12. Mawsynaram is the wettest place on Earth with 11,874mm of rain anually. > > 13. India was the first country to produce sugar. > > 14. Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra and Trigonometry originated from India. > > First, thankyou for this! It’s my first answer to get so many views and > upvotes. > > Second, for the point 1st point, that value can't be 100% true. Hence, > it’s a approx value calculated with the population in 2019, Please note > 2019. > > Third, for the 14th point, I know I got wrong in the Algebra part. So I'm > sorry for that. > > My note- If my memory is correct there are floating post offices still in > Alleppy District in Kerala. > > Q9 Do cats know what we are? Do they think we're some kind of big > cat? Or just a very weird creature giving them food. > > A9 All about Cats, Answered by John Holt Jan 31 > > *When kittens first open their eyes, they don’t perceive us as much more > than a disembodied hand that interacts with them.* > > As they mature they begins to pick up on more complexities of what we are > and begin to adjust their behavior accordingly. Despite this they > innately realize we are companions and caregivers, but also a different > species. > > A great example of this is how they communicate with us. *The majority of > feline to feline communication is based on body language, yet they learn > fairly quickly our brains don’t work that way and begin meowing for > specific cues.* > > This is my Sadie girl, she has a meow for “food”, one for “getting low on > water”, one for “get out the toys”, and one for “I want scritches.” She has > recognized I don’t read feline communication methods as well as another > cat would and has adjusted her behavior accordingly. > > Q10 Which European countries have a good railway network with > maximum high speed trains, such as French TGV or German ICE, etc.? > > A10 Nicholas Stone, Life long interest in trains. Sat > > *Four European countries have particularly well developed networks of > dedicated high speed passenger lines*. All feature running speeds of > greater than 200 km/h, station passing loops, grade separated junctions and > advance traffic management systems. Each has their own characteristics. I > have travelled on all four networks many times. > > Italian high speed passenger lines are essentially linear. There is one > near continuous high speed line from Turin to Salerno - via Milan, Bologna, > Florence, Rome and Naples. This connects almost all of Italy’s major > population centres - with buoyant passenger volumes. Consequently, there > are two operators. State owned Trenitalia offering Le Frecce brand of high > speed service and the privately owned Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV). > > Operating on the high speed Italian rail network, an NTV train with the > distinctive .Italo branding. On board, there are three travel classes: > smart, prima and club. > > France has a mainly radial high speed network with four routes fanning > out of Paris. State owned SNCF operates the world famous TGV train with two > travel products. There’s the full service inOui trains and the budget > Ouigo. SNCF has a majority stake in the Eurostar-Thalys international high > seed service, with Paris Gare du Nord departures to London, Brussels, > Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Cologne. > > Spain also has a mainly radial network, centred on Madrid. There are > several noteworthy features. Dedicated high speed lines are built to the > 1,435 mm gauge rather than Iberian 1,668 mm gauge. Special trains travel > over gauge changers at slow speed between the two networks. There is now > particularly competitive domestic high speed passenger rail market, with > Iryo receiving special praise. > > A high speed Iryo passenger train in Spain. The trains offer three travel > classes and six fares. The rolling stock is identical to the Italian le > Freece fleet, reflecting ownership. Iryo is jointly owned by Trenitalia, > Air Nostrum and Globalvia. > > The German high speed network and operations differ significantly from > the above three. A mixture of upgrade and new build links pairs of cities > rather than the radial or linear networks elsewhere. The principal operator > is the state owned Deutsche Bahn’s InterCity Express (ICE) service - > offering two travel classes and often full dining. Seat reservations are > not mandatory. These long distance ICE service will use a mix of new build, > upgrade and classic tracks as they cross Germany. > > In my opinion, the German and Italian high speed passenger trains are > among the best in Europe. Both offer higher standards of passenger comfort > and dining cars. Part of the Italian high speed through Tuscany, Umbria and > Lazio is particularly scenic. > > *All the above QA are from Quora website on 11-04-2023* > > *Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers .* > > *Compiled **and posted by R. 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