Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!looking!funny-request From: tds@honet9.att.com (Antonio Desimone) Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Re: End of the World Keywords: smirk, science Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 90 00:30:06 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 25 Approved: funny@looking.on.ca In article mm459504@longs.lance.colostate.edu (When I'm good, I'm even better) writes: The paper "National Geographic, The Doomsay Machine" which appeared in the _Journal of Irreproducible Results_ predicts dire consequences resulting from a nationwide buildup of _National Geographic_. The author's predictions are based on the observations that the number of subscriptions for _National Geographic_ are on the rise and that no one ever throws away a copy of the _National Geographic_. In a similar vein, yesterday I was reading a collection of essays by David Mermin (co-author of the world's funniest solid-state physics text), where he observes that, extrapolating from the current rate of growth, soon volumes of the Physical Review will be filling library shelves at a rate exceeding the speed of light. There is no violation of special relativity, however, as no information is being propagated. Mermin attributes the comment to Rudolf Pierles (sp?) [This is probably just for the physics geeks in the crowd] -- Tony DeSimone, AT&T Bell Laboratories -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Do not use "looking.uucp" or just "looking." Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply.