Three Dumb Engineering Students Talk About Nothing

Just in case you were wondering, this is what the next generation of aircraft and spacecraft designers talk about amongst themselves during their free time.  I’ll admit that I am one of these students.  

Be very afraid?

Student #1 pulls a package of pop tarts from his backpack.

2: [Student #1], yet again, eats a Strawberry pop tart for breakfast.

1: You bet your sweet ass I am.  I wouldn’t have it any other way.  Only on Mondays and Wednesdays, though.

Student #2 extracts a squished peanut butter and jelly sandwich from his backpack

3: See, [#2], that’s why you should be eating pop tarts instead of peanut butter and jelly.  Pop tarts can’t get squished any more than they already are.  Anyways, a strawberry pop tart is basically the same as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich—just without the peanut butter.  

2: Kind of like an incompressible peanut butter and jelly sandwich? [This is a reference to course material learned in class that day. –ed]

1: [laughs] As long as you put peanut butter frosting on the pop tart.

3: Have you ever eaten an Uncrustable?  I bet that if you compressed that, you’d get a pop tart.  

1: And if you compressed it past its Schwarzschild radius, it’ll turn into a black hole—a pop tart singularity.  

3: That’d be awesome.

2: Yeah, but how would you eat it then?

1: Good point.

3: [laughs]

2: [snickers]

1: [laughs] We should really be shot.

As long as people are making up games nowadays, the first person to guess which student is me gets seven minutes in heaven—with me!  The next time you’re in Minneapolis, that is.