(Subject: Probability Theory) If an infinite number of rednecks
riding in an infinite number of pickup trucks fire an infinite
number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of highway signs,
they will eventually produce all the world's great literary works
in Braille.
(Subject: Bio-Mechanics) Why Yawning Is Contagious: You yawn to
equalize the pressure on your eardrums.This pressure change
outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures,
so they then yawn to even it out.
(Subject: Symbolic Logic) Communist China is technologically
underdeveloped because they have no alphabet and therefore
cannot use acronyms to communicate technical ideas at a faster
rate.
(Subject: Newtonian Mechanics) The earth may spin faster on its
axis due to deforestation.Just as a figure skater's rate of spin
increases when the arms are brought in close to the body, the
cutting of tall trees may cause our planet to spin dangerously
fast.
(Subject: Linguistics) The quantity of consonants in the English
language is constant. If omitted in one place, they turn up in
another.When a Bostonian "pahks his cah," the lost R's migrate
southwest, causing a Texan to "warsh" his car and invest in "erl"
wells.
(Subject: Perpetual Motion) When a cat is dropped,it always
lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands
buttered side down. It was proposed to strap giant slabs of hot
buttered toast to the back of a hundred tethered cats; the two
opposing forces will cause the cats to hover, spinning inches
above the ground. Using the giant buttered toast/cat array, a
high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
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