Sunday, July 10, 2016

Need a Chemical Engineering degree to get this joke

The author of the SMBC (Saturday Morning Breakfast Club) tweeted the other day that he needed to know "For a joke: Anyone know how much pressure needed to prevent water from boiling at 700 degrees F?".  There was much discussion, I suggested steam tables, I helped others with their suggestions.

The comic finally came out.



You might need this pressure-temperature phase diagram for water to interpret.



How does one think of this stuff?  I mean combining the expression with the science to build a joke.


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