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Engineerial problem
07/20/12
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Posted on 07/20/2012 1:02:24 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
A technical department in a Soviet university. An introductory lecture.
The professor:
For a start I'll explain to you, who an engineer is. There is a factory which receives daily a truckload of alcohol necessary for its operating. The factory has a huge tank with a tap to hold the alcohol. A female employee uses the tap to distribute the alcohol according to written orders. After each shift the tank is emptied with the same tap.
Now I have a question to you all:
How will an engineer steel some alcohol from the tank?"
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: alcohol; engineer; problem; soviet
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To: Slings and Arrows
I thought you said this was from Soviet Russia. That's exactly the Soviet way of doing things, at least when the issue is about valueables :)
To: Freelance Warrior
It's simple. You pretend to work. We pretend to pay you.
The clock moves forward.
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posted on
07/20/2012 2:00:36 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: Freelance Warrior
This is not an engineerial solution either.This whole question made me think of a quote I saw from Shane Carruth, the software engineer turned indie film maker who made the low budget cult hit time travel movie, PRIMER : "Engineering is giving someone three days to do something that takes five minutes."
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posted on
07/20/2012 2:01:55 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: cynwoody
It's simple. You pretend to work. We pretend to pay you. The clock moves forward.
Then, on the other side of the north pole, they elect a movie actor as their President.
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posted on
07/20/2012 2:05:36 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: Jonty30
I know one way it could be done. It would depend on the volume of the truck, but you could either pump air into the truck to displace volume of the stolen booze or by lowering the pressure within the tank, it would allow the alcohol to expand. That's a real engineerial solution. The problem with it is that the engineer can access the tank during down time only, when the tank is meant to be empty.
When the filling opening is open before a shift the pressure inside becomes equal to the atmospheric.
To: Freelance Warrior
Steeling [from] the tank?
I suppose you’d have to use a sand-blaster, but that’s no good if the tank is solid steel.
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posted on
07/20/2012 2:10:38 AM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Freelance Warrior
Well, I think it's the time for posting the answer:
1. Before a shift put a bucket with weights inside, for the bucket to stand steady, retrieve it with a rope and a hook after the shift.
2. If they inspect the tank with a rod after the tank is emptied, drop a quilt inside (or two, or any number of them), then retrieve it and squeeze.
To: Freelance Warrior
At first glance it looks like an English problem, but if you really want to know the perfect way, steal the alcohol through evaporation.
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posted on
07/20/2012 2:34:42 AM PDT
by
Usagi_yo
To: Freelance Warrior
You need to get a real job; this crap thread is a waste of time!
JC
To: Freelance Warrior
Soooo simple. Al is volatile so you loose some to the air. Heat the tank and you distill it the second time like some scotch.
To: Freelance Warrior
The female employee is the larcenous engineer, true?
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posted on
07/20/2012 3:54:28 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Legalize Freedom!!)
To: null and void
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posted on
07/20/2012 4:38:34 AM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(government health officials seem to have the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.)
To: Freelance Warrior
You can not turn alcohol into steel. Her efforts to steel it are in vain.
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posted on
07/20/2012 4:45:21 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
To: Freelance Warrior
That solution was the first thing that came to my mind, but it was so incredibly obvious, I just decided not to say anything.
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posted on
07/20/2012 5:01:21 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: Usagi_yo
At first glance it looks like an English problem, but if you really want to know the perfect way, steal the alcohol through evaporation.Yep!
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posted on
07/20/2012 6:57:59 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: Freelance Warrior
Comrade,
It is my sad duty to report that the Uzbekistan Alcohol Collective Plant at Stalinoputz shipped us Methanolski instead of Ethanolski, and now all my thought-criminal staff of Uzbeki counter-revolutionaries are dead, having ignorantly snuck drink from the mistaken shipment. At least their bodies will not freeze soon.
I have disposed of the remainder of the Methanolski and urgently request a replacement shipment of Ethanolski so that we may meet our production quotas for the glory of the Rodina and Communism.
Dos Vedanya, Dudeski,
Kenny Bunkov.
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posted on
07/20/2012 10:12:02 AM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(What Hawaii gave to Obama, was not what Obama gave to us.)
To: Freelance Warrior
Lame answers having nothing to do with engineering.
An engineer would suck all the air out of the empty tank, run it thru a cold tube, and condense the evaporated alcohol out of the air.
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posted on
07/20/2012 10:31:17 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
To: Freelance Warrior
Maybe Comrade Obama can create another TRILLION dollar stimulus package to help figure this problem out? After all it’s only Obama money! Right?
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posted on
07/20/2012 11:49:25 AM PDT
by
Mier
(Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent!! "Jim Quinn")
To: Shimmer1
I’d write the process instructions to require a sample be given to the engineer for testing each day.
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posted on
07/20/2012 11:53:31 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1275 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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