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IS HELL EXOTHERMIC OR ENDOTHERMIC?
Actual University of Washington Chemistry Midterm Bonus Question ^
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Posted on 05/06/2007 4:13:38 PM PDT by Hostage
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THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:13:40 PM PDT
by
Hostage
To: Hostage
This has been around in various forms for years...and I still get a chuckle out of it. :)
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:14:59 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Then vs Now: Tokyo Rose - Baghdad Harry Reid)
To: Hostage
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:16:44 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Just say no to Brady Bunch Republicans.)
To: Hostage
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:17:40 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: Hostage
Then there's the mathmatical proof that women are evil:
Ok ...ok
Everyone knows Women are Time and Money
Women = Time x Money
Everyone knows Time IS Money
Time = Money
Therefore:
Women = Money x Money (or money squared)
Everyone knows Money is the root of all evil
Money = Square root of all Evil = (all Evil)^0.5
Therefore:
Women = The square of the square root of {all evil}
Women = ((all Evil)^0.5)2
The square of the square root of anything is simply equal to itself....
Therefore Women = all Evil
Mathematical proof....
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:20:43 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Then vs Now: Tokyo Rose - Baghdad Harry Reid)
To: Hostage
Many operas end like Tosca with the sudden descent of the hero to some nether realm. Don Giovanni, however, (as in Zeffirelli's production for Covent Garden), tends simply to disappear amid whirling clouds of stage smoke as the chorus of off-stage demons promise him worse torments below. In Vienna, however, Cesare Siepi ended his admirable interpretation standing on a stagelift which, as so often happens, stuck halfway down, leaving his head and shoulders visible to the audience but not the rest of him. The technicians' efforts merely revealed the operation of one of the great laws governing opera disasters -- that the most that can be hoped for is to restore the status quo ante -- that is, they merely brought him back up again. Siepi then amazed the public by refusing simply to walk off and with courageous professionalism challenged the lift operator to a second attempt. Of course exactly the same thing happened, and amid the shocked silence of the Staatsoper a single voice rang out -- it is said in Italian -- "Oh my God, how wonderful -- hell is full."
-- from Great Operatic Disasters, by Hugh Vickers
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:29:01 PM PDT
by
Publius
(A = A)
To: Keith in Iowa
Yep, this one has a different ending than the last time I read it. The last time the author and Teresa did not conjugate their relationship leading him to conclude that possibility 2 was incorrect, therefore it must be possibility 1.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:37:27 PM PDT
by
lafroste
(gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
To: Hostage
Actually I wouldn’t have given an A+ to this student because he failed to relate his conclusion to Gore’s Global Warming.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:40:47 PM PDT
by
Hostage
(Fred Thompson will be President.)
To: Hostage
While a fun story, I think it’s been attributed to a gazillion students at various schools. Nothing like my friend’s Econ final on which he tried to fake his way through “coupon slippage”.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:57:30 PM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
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To: Keith in Iowa
When I took thermo at Cornell back in the late 1970’s our Professor posed the question “Is hell adiabatic?.” (Adiabatic meaning there exists a temperature gradient within the bounds of hell.)
The story was that a bright engineering student determined that there must surely be plenty of engineers in hell and that if a thermal gradient did exist those engineers would have built a heat pump and cooled the place. As far as he knew, hell was still hot, therefore hell could not be adiabatic.
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posted on
05/06/2007 4:57:36 PM PDT
by
angus 4man
(angus 4man)
To: angus 4man
If we do not have a body after death, what is there to burn in hell?
If we do have a body in hell, won’t it burn up instantly and only once?
How many times is Jesus quoted about talking about hell fire?
To: lafroste; Keith in Iowa
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Yep, this one has a different ending than the last time I read it. The last time the author and Teresa did not conjugate their relationship leading him to conclude that possibility 2 was incorrect, therefore it must be possibility 1. That's the way I recall it, too.
Must be he convinced Teresa to take pity on all the souls not already in Hell and sleep with him to freeze Hell over and thus save them.
(Hmmmm, I gotta remember that line...)
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posted on
05/06/2007 5:04:44 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Hostage
To: aft_lizard
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posted on
05/06/2007 5:06:04 PM PDT
by
KillTime
(Democracies that can't distinguish between good and evil or deny any difference shall surely perish.)
To: Hostage
The title of this thread is actually older than the material in it.
Fun stuff the first time around.
I didn’t read it all here, but at a glance, it looks different from the article I read a while back, which was beyond funny, and brilliant.
If a student received an A+ for this, plagiarism, then the grading Professor should be tarred and feathered, unless it was the original.
My memory is not good enough to be sure that this is the same material.
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posted on
05/06/2007 5:11:51 PM PDT
by
Radix
(I live my life like there is no yesterday!)
To: Radix
LOL...
Maybe all those libs in hell are causing the global warming.
To: Hyzenthlay
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posted on
05/06/2007 5:49:04 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Keith in Iowa
Except if women are time and money you get:
Women=time+money
not
Women=time*money
Now if we add that every minute spent with a woman costs us, we get
women=time*money.
To: Hostage
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