Mars weds Venus!!!

After years of research and studying 3586 couples, I've come to answer the question which troubled the universe for 89 centuries. Why Mars weds Venus? After all, they are two alien species from completely different worlds -worlds on either side of the blue planet!!!

Why Men marry Women?

Simple answer.  “Women Are Better And Smarter Than Men” (It is underlined, bold and in quotes). Every species tries to evolve. And what better way than mutate with a superior species?

Now, if you are convinced about that, you would obviously ask, if men marry women because they are superior; then why do women marry the 'Inferior'  men? 

Why Women marry Men? 

Simple answer again. Women believe that...

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The Capped Environmentalist!

The Lungs of the World -Amazon. Its infinite trees produce Oxygen day in and day out. But apart from giving out oxygen, the fantastic work Amazon does, is of trapping in the carbon dioxide. In today’s world with everyone trying to buy/sell carbon credits, Amazon is all philanthropic about it.

We have one more buddy on this planet, which does the same job. May not be on the scale of Amazon, but its contribution is quite significant. It’s none other than our very own Carbonated Drink. Yes the same old Black/Orange/Green liquid in our refrigerator.  Surprised? Let me explain how this belligerent Cola War fighter, plays an undercover environmentalist’s role.

You see, any fizzy drink is nothing but Carbonic Acid* dissolved into a ‘Secret Recipe’ of flavored water. And carbonic acid, H2CO3, is Carbon Dioxide dissolved into water under high pressure. Carbonated drinks contain 0.2% to 1% CO2. So your 1Ltr pet bottle would be home to 10gms of CO2. In actuality, it TRAPS the dreaded carbon dioxide!!!

One may say “Boy oh boy! You write this whole crap to tell me of this 10gms???”  So, in my defense I have my calculations ready on Microsoft Excel. Here goes the number crunching**… A flight from Delhi to Mumbai (one way only... can’t afford the round trip) would release 0.205 tonnes of CO2. Assuming a flight can carry 200 passengers, it boils down to 10250grams of CO2 contributed by each passenger. Which is approximately the CO2 content trapped by 1025, one liter bottles of carbonated drinks. Equivalent of planting 25 trees and that’s quite substantial.

But there is a catch. The CO2 is trapped in those bottles as long as the bottle is closed. As soon as you open it... Fizzz… There escapes the CO2!!!! So go ahead, buy those colas and stuff then in your refrigerator… Don’t open them though!! J

* Throwing in some chemistry to make the argument a bit more believable. 

** Reader's Discretion required: The above post is written at 3:25AM by an Insomniac. The  accuracy of the facts and figures is only restricted to the first result returned by the Page-Rank algorithm. 

ATM outsmarts my Free Will :)

In Bangalore… No cash… hunt for an ATM begins!!! HDFC ATM peeps at me from behind the Shilton hotel…. I negotiate the traffic to quench my wallet’s thirst… on the way, I calculate the number of times this month, I have used a non-my-bank ATM … only once… I am safe… won’t have to pay the fees… I insert the card…

“Enter your pin”

- Continue

- Cancel

“Type of account”

- Savings

- Current

“Enter amount”

- Continue

- Cancel

“Do you want a printed receipt?”

- No

- Yes

I thought for a sec, looked around and said WOW!!!

No, I wasn’t amazed at the mystery of a machine throwing money at me… neither had the machine thrown out some extra notes of paper to amaze me. Rather, I was amazed because it hadn’t!!! It dint give me the printed receipt of the transaction... even when I wanted it to!!!

Here is the reason. By the end of the first three questions, the machine got me into a habit of pressing the first button every time… and when it asked me about the transaction receipt, I pressed “No”… Out of habit!!!

When I looked around, the waste bin (where we tear and throw the transaction receipts) was almost empty. Which meant, either it was emptied recently or the order of “No”/ “Yes” buttons actually worked… and saved paper!!!

If a small consumer behavior trick like this is emulated by all the banks at every ATM, a lot of paper would be saved. Don’t you think so? :)

-- Go GREEN people!!! Its a soothing color :)