An awful joke
Posted by: Martin Payne on 26 January 2006
I've just been reading this SciAm special edition, when someone passed this joke around at work.
It made me chuckle, anyway, although I'm not sure anyone else in my team even got it.
cheers, Martin
It made me chuckle, anyway, although I'm not sure anyone else in my team even got it.
cheers, Martin
quote:There is this farmer who is having problems with his chickens. All of the sudden, they are all getting very sick and he
doesn't know what is wrong with them. After trying all conventional means, he calls a biologist, a chemist, and a physicist
to see if they can figure out what is wrong. So the biologist looks at the chickens, examines them a bit, and says he has no
clue what could be wrong with them. Then the chemist takes some tests and makes some measurements, but he can't come
to any conclusions either. So the physicist tries. He stands there and looks at the chickens for a long time without touching them
or anything. Then all of the sudden he starts scribbling away in a notebook. Finally, after several gruesome calculations, he
exclaims, 'I've got it! But it only works for spherical chickens in a vacuum.
