sick :))))) "Kuujis@work" <kuujis_no_spam_at_work@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ii6igg$dlb$1@trimpas.omnitel.net... >A physicist, engineer and a statistician are out hunting. Suddenly, a deer > appears 50 yards away. > > The physicist does some basic ballistic calculations, assuming a vacuum, > lifts his rifle to a specific angle, and shoots. The bullet lands 5 yards > short. > > The engineer adds a fudge factor for air resistance, lifts his rifle > slightly higher, and shoots. The bullet lands 5 yards long. > > The statistician yells "We got him!" > > by 140Mandak262Jamuna (970587) writes: on Sunday January 30, @06:47PM > (#35051842) Journal > The statistician is right. Because if the deer has not moved between > the first and the second shot, it is already dead. QED. > > by ghmh (73679) writes: on Sunday January 30, @09:13PM > (#35052754) > > Not necessarily - everything is relative. For example, you have > to also look at it from the deers frame of reference: > > A deer is wandering through the forest. Suddenly, a physicist, > engineer and a statistician appears 50 yards away holding guns. > > The deer looks at them carefully and thinks - a physicist, an > engineer and a statistician: I'd best just stand still. > > by Xyrus (755017) writes: on Monday January 31, @01:16AM > (#35053912) Journal > > A deer is wandering through the forest. Suddenly, a > physicist, engineer and a statistician appears 50 yards away holding guns. > > The deer thinks about this carefully for a moment. The > likelihood that a physicist, engineer and statistician being able to form a > cohesive group is unlikely. Forming a cohesive group in a forest, even less > likely, and forming a cohesive group with guns involved practically > improbable, as they most likely would have killed each other arguing over > some pointless aspect or theory that the deer had worked out ages ago. > > The deer comes to the realization that the only way that > this situation could be real is if some other being had concocted it as a > piece of fiction in some alternate universe. The deer sighs and holds > perfectly still as a shot goes long, and another goes short, and the third > guy never shoots his gun, claiming the dear has been shot. The deer shakes > its head sadly for the poor being who created this temporary reality, and > for itself as he will have to endure this ritual for as many times as other > beings invoke it. Eventually the deer will be allowed to return the ethereal > pool of creation, where perhaps its next incarnation will be something more > interesting, perhaps as the man from Nantucket or the woman from New > Zealand. > > VA :P >