home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky sci.edu:981 alt.folklore.science:3269
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!herald.Berkeley.EDU!lanih
- From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
- Newsgroups: sci.edu,alt.folklore.science
- Subject: Re: Sartre's 3 laws ( was Re: 2nd law not taught etc)
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 23:03:26 GMT
- Organization: /etc/organization
- Lines: 12
- Sender: lanih@info.berkeley.edu
- Message-ID: <18ok7uINNljc@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <pete.036g@bignode.equinox.gen.nz> <1992Aug28.214139.451@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com> <1992Sep2.022653.28657@u.washington.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: herald.berkeley.edu
- Summary: I heard 4 laws of thermodynamics
- Keywords: thermodyamics / Murphy redux
-
- I heard it in my youth as the 4 laws of thermodynamics:
- 1. You can't win
- 2. You can't even break even
- 3. It will all come out right in the end
- 4. But you'll never get there!
- This was from the same person who described the workings of an internal
- combustion engine as
- Suck, squeeze, bang, ptooie!
-
- Now try to forget them!
- -- Lani
-
-