Amateurs, all of you. The solution is that the glass is 50% occupied by a liquid. Now then, the Middle East thingy. It’s about the Isrealites vs. the Babylonians, right? Lessee…
Oh yeah, Mangeorge, you’re two days early on the whole Epiphany thing, too.
When it came up on QI, the consensus was that it would just rearrange the violence into love Marmite and hate it factions instead of those currently existing.
Sounds good to me. Last idea I heard was to squirt them all with lard.
I spoke of little “e” epiphany. Those can be spontaneous, you see.
Yes, but if they’re premature, perhaps you should get that checked out.
I mean, um, don’t worry about it, it happens to every man sometimes. Really.
Actually, no part of the glass is empty, assuming the observation takes place in an atmosphere.
Actually, I once skimmed a paper about whether an empty vessel is actually empty. The author said no, but it’s okay to consider it so.
I wonder what Cecil thinks.
Optimist: “the glass is half-full.”
Pessimist: “the glass is half-empty.”
Papa Bear: “Someone’s been drinking out of my glass!”
Or perhaps 50% unoccupied. You do see the dilemma, don’t you?
We can’t be sure if the glass is half-empty or half-full until we determine whether the cat is dead. That’s Heisenberg. I think it is, anyway.
Just like mine, it appears Schrödinger’s Cat drank out of his glass.
[really geeky nitpick]
It’s 10,000 Kelvins, not 10,000 degrees Kelvin. Kelvin is not the scale, but the unit itself.
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That just extends the joke :
Scientist 1 : “After being heated to 10,000 degrees Kelvin and the resulting plasma spectroscopically analyzed, it appears that the glass was composed of elements in these concentrations . . .”
Scientist 2 : " It’s ‘10,000 Kelvins’, not ‘10,000 degrees Kelvin’ ! "
Scientist 1 : “I’m the one that got the half million dollar grant to study half full glasses; I’ll call it what I damned well please.”
But…but…I…you… aaaaaaAAAAARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Great. Now I’m going to be up all night trying to come up with a work-around.
Ah, but do you *have *a half million dollar grant, or are you *lacking *a full million dollar grant?
Freud: It’s your mother’s fault.
Which half?
Lacking the full million of course. Gee don’t you know anything about goverment grants?
I don’t know. I’ll need a grant to fund a study . . .
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