The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XV

[Brian Shanahan]

As far as I know they tie off any blood vessels in the opened area, and they of course always have transfusions if needed.

 

[NovaKart]

I have a random question, my electricity goes out pretty much every single day usually for about half an hour but sometimes as long as 2 hours. Sometimes the water stops running too for awhile. It's a total pain. Any ideas why? When I was here last year it didn't happen quite as often but in the building I'm in now it's a problem. I thought maybe it's due to construction going on but sometimes it happens at night.

 

[Cutlass]

During medical operations such as transplants, is there any way of managing the patient's blood? I would imagine that all the bleeding from cutting somebody open would cause problems for the surgeons, not to mention the patient himself

Yes, blood can be run through a machine and reused. It's not perfect though. And sometimes doesn't work.

 

[Cutlass]

I have a random question, my electricity goes out pretty much every single day usually for about half an hour but sometimes as long as 2 hours. Sometimes the water stops running too for awhile. It's a total pain. Any ideas why? When I was here last year it didn't happen quite as often but in the building I'm in now it's a problem. I thought maybe it's due to construction going on but sometimes it happens at night.

Probably the services are at maximum capacity, or slightly over. In those cases, service has to be interrupted in some places to keep it working elsewhere.

 

[NovaKart]

I see, this happens a lot in Turkey but in some parts of the city it's worse than others, where I lived before it wasn't nearly this bad. I swear it happens every day here.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Yes, blood can be run through a machine and reused. It's not perfect though. And sometimes doesn't work.

I read that some people before a surgery go in once a week (I forgot exactly how much) to get blood taken from themselves. So if they need a transfusion they get transfused from themselves.

 

[GinandTonic]

I see, this happens a lot in Turkey but in some parts of the city it's worse than others, where I lived before it wasn't nearly this bad. I swear it happens every day here.

Some grids are valued more than others? Biz customers that hold sway with the local gov, posh neighbourhoods where the people have influence, the grid where the boss of the power company's secretary lives since he doesnt want spit in his coffee etc get more priority than, say, the grid where the guy the boss of the power company suspects of being his wife's lover lives.

 

[NovaKart]

I think this might be because I'm in a rather new area with lots of new buildings.

 

[GinandTonic]

Could just be they havent improved the infrastructure enough to cope with the new buildings. Either it cannot be afforded, or the monies the developers put in didnt find their way to the coal-face.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Is it a bad thing if an energy-efficient lightbulb (I dont think they sell the regular ones anymore) goes "hisscrackle" and flickers and then stops doing that? Its when I first turned it on

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

Does anybody have a good recipe for making this, I once ate this in Austria ant it was superb!!

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Does anyone know of any historical instance of military intervention in order to prevent an imminent mass killing of a particular group with the interveners being from another non-neighbouring country?

 

[Cutlass]

NATO intervention in the Balkans in the 90s.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I was thinking of interventions with primarily ground operations, though of course there were some during that instance.

 

[Cutlass]

Most of the peacekeeping in Africa. Though that rarely works out well.

 

[Skwink]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Kaiserschmarrn

 

[Yeekim]

Not knowing what Kaiserschmarrrn is, I googled "Kaiserschmarrn recipe" for 28,200 results. I bet you can find something there, too.

 

[Uncle Anton]

Not knowing what Kaiserschmarrrn is....

+1

At the risk of mixing stereotypical metaphors from different countries, it sounds like a particularly dominant/aggressive model of Ikea couch.

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

+1

At the risk of mixing stereotypical metaphors from different countries, it sounds like a particularly dominant/aggressive model of Ikea couch.

It's like a very big sliced up pancake , normally served with warm plum sauce.

(and it's austrian, not swedish)

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

"The road to evil is paved with good intentions."

What does that mean, anyway?