- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Shai Hulud
To hell with correct terms! Just call them [color="steelblue"]glass semi-spheres of glowiness.[/color]
And I'm not sure if I'm right (although, damnit, I should know this!), but they burn out, most likely, because the tungsten (they still use it, don't they?) in the incandescent [color="steelblue"]glass semi-spheres of glowiness[/color] gets burned up... or melted... vaporized... liquidated.... one of those colorful little terms.
i think that most of the time the thing in the glass semi-spheres of glowiness just gets the ends burnt and detaches, but you're corect.