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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
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 17:48:38 1985
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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[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.