Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!brisco From: brisco@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (T.p.) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: this morning ... Message-ID: <3182@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 09:16:28 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3182 Posted: Thu Aug 8 09:16:28 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 06:22:48 EDT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 47 Keywords: plutonium,coffee This morning (a very wet and humid one), as I was driving in to work, something very bizarre happened to me. I was driving, as usual with a cup of coffee in my right hand. Some guy in a red truck cut me off, so I put down the coffee to make obscene gestures at him. Well, the moment I put down my cup of coffee, the guy in the red truck put on his brakes, thus causing me to brake and my coffee spilled on the floor. (*here's the bizarre part*) After swearing, I noticed that it had started to rain a very fine mist of weak coffee within my car! I looked at the puddle of coffee on the floor and deduced that the steam from the coffee had gone into the air, causing the air to reach it's saturation point, and thus rain. Since it was coffee steam, (mixed with the water in the air) logically it had produced weak coffee. I was wondering: 1) If I had been drinking isobutyl propane - would it have rained gasoline? (if so, Im going to quit my job and do that for a living) 2) If the coffee had been fresh-brewed instead of the instant I usually drink -- would the rain have been more drinkable? 3) If I had put a hundreth of a mole (6.02x10^10) atoms of plutonium in my coffee instead of a teaspoon of sugar, would the mist have reached critical mass and exploded, thus ruining the entire east coast of America? 4) Would the obscene gestures I make have any direct bearing on the quality of the precipitation? tp. v {Whats on the telly? /\ Looks like a penguin. / \ No, that over there! / ^ \ OHMIGOSH!It's a 7foot leather bound cucumber! -------- } -- ***************************************************************** * ARPA: Brisco@rutgers * * UUCP: (ihnp4!ut-sally, siesmo, allegra!packard) !topaz!brisco * * ***************************************************************