The restaurant Bistro-an-Maine-Street is located on the fourth floor of a certain building. Part of the restaurant's "character" is that the beverages are served on the first floor with a straw leading up to the fourth-floor customers 12 meters up. The joke is that customers cannot manage to drink their beverages. One night a chemist brings along a vacuum pump from her laboratory. Assume the pump can draw a perfect vacuum. What happens when the chemist connects her pump to the straw? Assume also that surface tension and viscosity of the beverage plays no role, and we have Patm = 105 Pa, ?beverage = 103 Kg/m3.

a) The pump is able to draw the liquid to the fourth floor and quench her thirst.

b) The pump is theoretically able to draw the liquid to the fourth floor, but it requires an infinite amount of time.

c) The beverage will not rise past a certain point, no matter how good the pump is.

d) There is not enough information to answer this question.