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Funny Jokes

Are You An Engineer?

Are You An Engineer?
If these remind you of yourself, it’s a good bet you are an engineer.
  • At Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string.
  • In college you thought Spring Break was a metal fatigue failure.
  • The salespeople at Circuit City can’t answer any of your questions.
  • You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.
  • You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday.
  • You can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie.
  • You can’t write unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines.
  • You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
  • You forgot to get a haircut … for 6 months.
  • You have Dilbert comics displayed anywhere in your work area.
  • You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
  • You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
  • You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.
  • You know what http:// actually stands for.
  • You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
  • You see a good design and still have to change it.
  • You still own a slide rule and you know how to work it.
  • You wear black socks with white tennis shoes (or vice versa).
  • You’re in the back seat of your car, she’s looking wistfully at the moon, and you’re trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite.
  • You know what the geosynchronous satellite’s function is.
  • Your laptop computer costs more than your car.
  • You’ve already calculated how much you make per second.
  • You’ve ever tried to repair a $5 radio.

 

Amusing

Perpetual Motion Machines

Very interesting and fun to watch.

Enjoy!

Perpetual motion, the action of a device that, once set in motion, would continue in motion forever, with no additional energy required to maintain it. Such devices are impossible on grounds stated by the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Perpetual motion, although impossible to produce, has fascinated both inventors and the general public for hundreds of years. The enormous appeal of perpetual motion resides in the promise of a virtually free and limitless source of power. The fact that perpetual-motion machines cannot work because they violate the laws of thermodynamics has not discouraged inventors and hucksters from attempting to break, circumvent, or ignore those laws.

Britannica

Basically, there are three kinds of perpetual-motion devices. The first kind includes those devices that purport to deliver more energy from a falling or turning body than is required to restore those devices to their original state. The most common of these, and the oldest, is the overbalanced wheel

The overbalanced wheel perpetual motion machine apparently originated in India, in the 8th century CE. The Indian astronomer Lalla described a self-rotating wheel driven by mercury moving along its curved spokes. A variation of this idea was described by the Indian author Bhaskara (c. 1159). It was a wheel with containers of mercury around its rim. As the wheel turned, the mercury was supposed to move within the containers in such a way that the wheel would always be heavier on one side of the axle. This idea appears again in Europe in the year 1235 when the French architect Villard de Honnecourt described an overbalanced wheel with hinged hammers equally spaced around its rim. The wheel is actually supposed to be perpendicular to the frame and to the horizontal axle.

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Perpetual Motion Machines

 

Jokes

Joke Of The Day: One Ticket

Rubber Chicken Three engineers and three scientists were traveling by train to a conference.

The scientists went to the ticket window and bought three one-way tickets. The engineers bought only one. The scientists remarked that there were three engineers but only one ticket. The engineers said to watch.

Right before the train left the three engineers crammed into one rest room. When the conductor came through to collect tickets he checked the rest room and, seeing it occupied, said “Ticket please.” One of the engineers cracked open the door and handed out the ticket, which the conductor validated. After a few minutes the engineers returned to their seats. The scientists were amazed, and said they’d try it on the way back.

On the way back after the conference, the engineers and scientists met at the ticket window again. The scientists said “we know what to do” and bought only one ticket. But the engineers didn’t buy any! Once again the scientists were perplexed. The engineers said “wait and see.”

As the train left the station the scientists got up and crammed themselves into a rest room. The engineers did the same. After a few minutes, before the conductor appeared, one of the engineers came out of their wash room and knocked on the door where the scientists were and said “Ticket please!”

 

 

Jokes Political

Joke Of The Day: The Oldest Profession

Rubber Chicken A doctor, an engineer, and a politician were arguing as to which profession was older.

“Well,” argued the doctor, “without a physician mankind could not have survived, so I am sure that mine is the oldest profession.”

“No,” said the engineer, “before life began there was complete chaos, and it took an engineer to create some semblance of order from this chaos. So engineering is older.”

“But,” chirped the triumphant politician, “who created the chaos?”

 

 

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