he following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term.
The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.
With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa, (Cheerleader Captain and Class Valedictorian) during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night and again this morning, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over.
The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct... leaving only Heaven, and thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God!!!" THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A.

I feel hell is neither exothermic nor endothermic cuz there's a very high chance that it doesn't exist.  
But if it does exist, we're all going to hell... rofl

PS: Boyle's law doesn't hold when space-time itself expands.

The question was very general. In order to give a true answer, you have to have a certain amount of information to come to a conclusion.  

The student answered based on personal experience, but also knew he didn't know for sure that hell existed. He only knew that numerous religions said it did, but their ways of escaping it were all very different.

So his answer is,

"There's no actual answer, but since I have to answer, I'm just going to write the amount of words that is required and see how this goes." lol.

His answer was about as random as the question. Here's why...  
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? -  

There's no information at all about hell in the question, and in all the places hell is explained, the information is different. (I think?) The only information that can be derived from multiple sources are - theories - guesses - or - made up. NO proof or actual experiments done on hell, or even near it. (As far as I know, lol.)

The 'A' student did exactly what those who believe there even is a hell do - and assuming the professor asked the question for this reason too. He simply pulled information out of thin air based on things multiple people have said, or information that was available to him up to that point. (Obviously he was being sarcastic). I.E. using random information he's heard throughout his life to come to an absolute conclusion. Because, after all, that's what we're expected to do.

Never know! LOL

You can wake up now, I'm done. lol.

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Here is the Snope's take on it:

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Lol

I don't believe it's for real, but it was well done. Funny.

Nerds have a really weird sense of humor.   But it still cracks me up - because, well - I am still a nerd....