September 1, 2007

I found this joke, and loved it! And of course, I had to share it!

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are staying in a hotel while attending a technical seminar. The engineer wakes up and smells smoke. He goes out into the hallway and sees a fire, so he fills a trashcan from his room with water and douses the fire. He goes back to bed.
Later, the physicist wakes up and smells smoke. He opens his doorand sees a fire in the hallway. He walks down the hall to a fire hose andafter calculating the flame velocity, distance, water pressure, trajectory,etc. extinguishes the fire with the minimum amount of water and energyneeded.
Later, the mathematician wakes up and smells smoke. He goes to the hall, sees the fire and then the fire hose. He thinks for a moment and then exclaims, "Ah, a solution exists!" and then goes back to bed.

I hope I am not the only one who enjoyed that! :)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I liked it :)

Anonymous said...

LOL - that is funny
And yet they still make us do maths....

Anonymous said...

lol!very funny

Antz said...

Wow, Kate, you have no idea what a reformation I've had! My eyes have been opened to the beauty of maths. I think I still prefer physics, but I at least am able to appreciate maths now :)

I found this joke:
Q: How many Heisenbergs does it take to change a light bulb?
A: If you know the number, you don’t know where the light bulb is.

And why Heisenberg never find his keys: because he knew they were out there, but he couldn’t tell where exactly…

Antz said...

Two more you might like:
http://talklikeaphysicist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/image-178.jpg

and this one - its really nerdy, but it'll make you smile :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9dpTTpjymE