Tema: Re: Physicist, engineer and statistician
Autorius: Ignas
Data: 2011-01-31 17:03:57
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"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 
>