Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site reed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!tektronix!reed!rafe From: rafe@reed.UUCP (Raphael Needleman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Scince Geek Joke #127 Message-ID: <1003@reed.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 17:48:38 EST Article-I.D.: reed.1003 Posted: Tue Feb 26 17:48:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 05:36:36 EST Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 25 [I'm a doctor, not a line-eater!] There are three students living in a house: an engineering major, a physics major, and a math major. One night, the engineering major is awakened by the smell of smoke. "It's a fire!" he thinks, and he jumps out of bed and looks for the flames. When he finds them (in the kitchen), he grabs a huge mixing bowl, fills it with water from the sink, and empties the entire thing on the fire, which goes out. Then the engineering major goes back to sleep. Little does he know it, but he didn't *completely* put the fire out. But when the fire flares up again, he's so exhausted that it doesn't wake him up. Instead, the physics major awakens, runs to the bathroom, grabs a small cup of water, runs to the kitchen, makes a few quick calculations, and from accross the room, tosses about two ounces of water in a beautiful arc towards the fire. The water lands exactly where it should, and extinguishes the fire. But the fire flares once more. Both the the engineering major and the physics major are asleep. The math major awakens to the smell of smoke. He sits up in bed, sniffs the smokey air, and thinks for a moment. Then he says to himself, "There is a solution to this problem, but it's trivial," and he goes back to sleep.