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Subject: I changed a light bulb today.
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So the downstairs light was burned out so I changed it. Anyone ever wonder why they "burn out"? They don't look burned to me.

  • 08.20.2004 9:27 PM PDT
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there was this one time that I changed a light bulb it was quite the experience... ;-) LoL

  • 08.20.2004 9:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: focused7
there was this one time that I changed a light bulb it was quite the experience... ;-) LoL

Really? I find it boring.

  • 08.20.2004 9:29 PM PDT

bah

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  • 08.20.2004 9:32 PM PDT
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Good job. You have learned a valuable and very important lesson in life today.

  • 08.20.2004 9:37 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

Actually the correct term is Lamp.

;P

  • 08.20.2004 9:39 PM PDT
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Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!

From the other thread...


9 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take the discussion to a lightbulb forum

*Waits for 8 others*


:D

  • 08.20.2004 9:48 PM PDT
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It sounds strange to say " I changed a lamp today."

  • 08.20.2004 9:48 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

This belongs in a light bulb forum.

Waits for seven others.

[Edited on 8/20/2004 9:52:31 PM]

  • 08.20.2004 9:51 PM PDT

With B.B. gone, the passion of Bungie.net has lessened.

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.

  • 08.20.2004 9:58 PM PDT
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Good job! :D

  • 08.20.2004 10:09 PM PDT
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Did you check how many much power it uses?

Doesn't anyone else think this should be a case study for Greenpeace?

Can the mods move this to a Greenpeace forum?

(Let's see how many posts we get before someone actually tries to be helpful)

[Edited on 8/21/2004 1:12:13 AM]

  • 08.21.2004 1:12 AM PDT
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So, it does take only one idiot to screw in a lightbulb.
jk
Actually the reason they burn out is that the filament breaks.

  • 08.21.2004 1:55 AM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

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.


You are absolutely correct! We do still use it, although we will run out in 40 years. And I think it vaporizes.

One more thing- I challenge you to make a lightbulb glow when the glass is broken. I bet you $100 that you can't do it.

  • 08.21.2004 2:19 AM PDT
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Glow is a lot different from lighting up.

I sir, accept your bet.

(Just don't expect any results)
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One more thing- I challenge you to make a lightbulb glow when the glass is broken. I bet you $100 that you can't do it.

  • 08.21.2004 3:30 AM PDT
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You cant make it work because it needs a vacuum for the filament to work in. No globe, no glow.

  • 08.21.2004 3:37 AM PDT
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you could put clingflim around it maybe that way you could presevre your vacuum and also see your glow, but it could melt or not even work!

  • 08.21.2004 3:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: agent404
So the downstairs light was burned out so I changed it. Anyone ever wonder why they "burn out"? They don't look burned to me.

Pics?

  • 08.21.2004 5:00 AM PDT

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Wow! You changed a light bulb! Your parents must be so proud!

  • 08.21.2004 5:39 AM PDT
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Bravo, agent404, bravo. Perhaps tomorrow you might do something else useful.


Ahh, who am I kidding.

  • 08.21.2004 6:05 AM PDT
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wow I'm inspired

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Posted by: agent404
So the downstairs light was burned out so I changed it. Anyone ever wonder why they "burn out"? They don't look burned to me.


Bulbs break from the constant turning on and off of them- every time they are turned on they heat up and expand, then cool and return to their normal size when turned off. After a large amound to being turned on/off the filament is weakened by constant expansion and deexpansion, and eventually it breaks as it tries to expand on time too many. I think. I'm not a lightbulb expert or anything though......

  • 08.21.2004 6:27 AM PDT
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I believe all light bulb conversations belong in New Mombasa

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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.

  • 08.21.2004 7:14 AM PDT
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i never figured out how to chang a light bulb any way. just jocking.

  • 08.21.2004 7:17 AM PDT

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