brisco@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (T.p.) (08/08/85)
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.
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* ***************************************************************csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) (08/09/85)
In article <3182@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> brisco@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (T.p.) writes: >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? This is total BULL! First of all, a hundreth mole is NOT 6.02x10^10, but in fact about a heaping teaspoonful (+- .05%). Secondly anybody who took physics in high school knows that plutonium cannot reach critical mass on a weekday! The ignorance of the people on this net really gets me sometimes. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "I was going to say something really profound, but I forgot what it was." -Rev. Wang Zeep
review@drutx.UUCP (MillhamBD) (08/09/85)
It was the red truck. I had the same thing happen, except that it was a pink VW, and the coffee was very drinkable. -------------------------------------------- Brian Millham AT & T Information Systems Denver, Co. ...!inhp4!drutx!review Generic Joe said that the lousy person bought my big fruit. NOBODY expects a steak! Batman used Howard the Duck, nevertheless the hacker ran.