The Difference Between a normal Person and a scientist

Source: xkcd.com...
Credit to Creative Commons

The only diference is that the scientist does not try again, he gets graduate students to try again and again...



[edit on 3/30/2007 by a1ex]

Haha that is funny but so true.

An atom walks into a bar - very depressed.

The bartender asks him:
"What's wrong?"

"I lost my electron.."
Replies the atom.

"Are you sure?"
Asks the bartender.

"I'm positive."

Then there's always the:

"An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. Fortunately for this joke, a small fire breaks out in each room.

The physicist awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on the back of the hotel's wine list does some quick calculations. Grabbing the fire extinguisher, he puts out the fire with one, short, well placed burst, and then crawls back into bed and goes back to sleep.

The engineer awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on the back of the hotel's room service (pizza menu) list does some quick calculations. Grabbing the fire extinguisher (and adding a factor of safety of 5), he puts out the fire by hosing down the entire room several times over, and then crawls into his soggy bed and goes back to sleep.

The mathematician awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on a blackboard installed in the room, does some quick calculations. Jubliant, he exclaims "A solution exists!", and crawls into his dry bed and goes back to sleep. "

grabbed it from here, seen a few variants of it..

Okay, I just found this one, but I think it's hilarious:


www.xs4all.nl...

Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science

philip.greenspun.com...

Read the Whole Thing, the punch line is Classic!

A priest, a lawyer, and an engineer walk into a bar in Tijuana, and get very, very drunk. They wake up in the morning with massive hangovers, no memory of the previous night, and are in jail and told that they will be executed today.

The priest is placed in the electric chair, and asked for his final words. "I am a graduate of Harvard Divinity school," he says, "and I believe in the power of God to save the innocent and deliver me from this predicament." The executioner throws the switch and nothing happens. Baffled, he keeps trying, but it doesn't work. Deciding that God must indeed want to spare the priest, he is pardoned.

The lawyer is placed in the electric chair, and asked for his final words. "I am a graduate of Stanford Loaw school, and I believe in law and justice. The innocent will be set free and the guilty punished." The executioner throws the switch and again, nothing happens. Deciding that the lawyer must be not guilty, they let him go.

The engineer is placed in the electric chair, and asked for his final words. "I am a graduate of MIT, with a PhD in electrical engineering. I understand the inner workings of physics, and the mysteries of the electron. And I assure you that you will never, ever electrocute anyone in this chair unless you plug it in."

Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
A priest, a lawyer, and an engineer walk into a bar in Tijuana, and get very, very drunk. They wake up in the morning with massive hangovers, no memory of the previous night, and are in jail and told that they will be executed today.

The priest is placed in the electric chair, and asked for his final words. "I am a graduate of Harvard Divinity school," he says, "and I believe in the power of God to save the innocent and deliver me from this predicament." The executioner throws the switch and nothing happens. Baffled, he keeps trying, but it doesn't work. Deciding that God must indeed want to spare the priest, he is pardoned.

The lawyer is placed in the electric chair, and asked for his final words. "I am a graduate of Stanford Loaw school, and I believe in law and justice. The innocent will be set free and the guilty punished." The executioner throws the switch and again, nothing happens. Deciding that the lawyer must be not guilty, they let him go.

The engineer is placed in the electric chair, and asked for his final words. "I am a graduate of MIT, with a PhD in electrical engineering. I understand the inner workings of physics, and the mysteries of the electron. And I assure you that you will never, ever electrocute anyone in this chair unless you plug it in."

That one made my day