Now, Cyndi & husb. this little missile I rec'd from Wales, may not bear repeating, and especially on Puget Sound Roots of which I have the deepest respect. BUT, when I read this, I just about split! I thought that after what we have all been through with Snohomish Cemetery, and all of its ramifications, successes, disappointments, results, results in the Future; that this just hit the nail right on the head! If you or anyone among our fine "community" of genealogists, historians, and armchair philosophers finds this distateful and abberated on here, I know I will hear from it. BUT, here is my contribution for today in a "nutshell"! Fresh in from WALES: >Any way a little light relief: > >Actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry midterm: > >"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? >Support your answer with proof." > >Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law >(gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or >some variant. One student, however, wrote the following: > >First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, >we >need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate >they >are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets >to >Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how > >many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions >that >exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you >are >not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are >more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to >more >than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to >Hell. > >With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of >souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of >change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order >for temperature and the pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume >of >Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities: > >1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls > >enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase >until : > All Hell breaks loose. > >2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase > >of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until : > Hell freezes over. > >So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Therese > >Banyan during my Freshman year, "That it will be a cold night in Hell >before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still >have not succeeded in that area, then (2) cannot be true, and so Hell >is >exothermic. > >The student got the only A. > Name withheld, but from a Friend in Wales. > Carroll of Snohomish - Norie, I LOVE Snohomish, and you would , too if you had lived here over the years. It's some of the People - the Upstarts that attempt to make their Mark on the Town - in the name of Progress ( or the political paragese they now substitue for the word Progress these days. Is that Codger Talk, or not? Should I become a member of the Sr Ctr, and learn to play bridge, crochet, bingo, or Weight Watchers?). Antique Capital of the Northwest - everything is Old, except the Upstarts! Exothermic, here I come! Good Ol' "CC." * * * 30 * * * ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]