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#1 2004-09-21 13:06:50

Palomar
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Re: Long-lasting light bulbs?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s … California since 1901...Texas bulb in 2nd place

*Um...just how do they know these two bulbs have -never- been switched off since being initially turned on? 

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#2 2004-09-21 13:22:59

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Re: Long-lasting light bulbs?

Interesting story to have missed all possible blackouts, man made or otherwise since being turned on. Carbon filaments burn in the presence of oxygen so to have gotten all contaminants out and to have maintained a perfect seal is quite a feat.

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