In message <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAOYAZyOzV8ERq+LmT45ypI7CgAAAEAAAAMh4axYd2AtA [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rob Kimberley" writes:
>The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University >of Copenhagen: > > >"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer." > >[urban legend] > >The student was Nils Bohr, the first Dane to win the Nobel prize for >Physics. No, it most certainly was not Niels Bohr, and I seriously doubt it was anybody, as this particular urban legend was already old when I studied physics... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
