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I came across this article today.
You’ll find a remarkable light bulb burning bright at a fire station in Livermore, California. It hasn’t been turned off since 1901.
The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and General Electric agree the bulb, of unknown wattage, is the longest-living in history, despite two moves and a few power outages during its lifetime
. Read more on this subject here and there.
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March 31st, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Must touch light…
I can almost reach it!!!!
March 31st, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Wait until they make incandescent light bulbs illegal in California, then the governement will make them replace it.
April 1st, 2007 at 1:59 am
SPOCK! ,,,,,,,
HELP ME SPOCK!,,,,,,,
,,,,,,,HELP ME!
April 1st, 2007 at 4:00 am
They’re only talking about making the sale of them illegal, just like Australia and the EU. You’d still be able to run your old ones. (Although, with the price of power, you might not want to.)
I wonder how many lumens that thing puts out.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:27 am
april fools! haha
April 1st, 2007 at 7:38 am
Kim: I wondwer how many lumens that thing puts out.
Answer: Both.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:32 am
Hey, do you mean ANSI Lumens or Standard Lumens?
As if anyone gives a crap Kim, go back to sleep.
April 1st, 2007 at 9:41 am
While I’m at it;
charlie is an idiot, even Bob Saget doesn’t think his comment was funny
Sam is a moron, read his comment and imagine him on a first date… pretty pathetic
chubsoda is retarded and desperately needs to move out of his parents basement
Kim is high, she’d have to be to think anyone here wanting though provoking conversation… And if Kim is a guy, well, dude you have a girls name.
April 1st, 2007 at 10:45 am
Making the sale of incandescent lightbulbs illegal is fatuous political pandering. If government’s concern genuinely is the reduction of carbon emissions, the most efficient way to do it would be a direct tax on emissions. I can’t speak for California or Australia, but they’re talking about banning the sale of incandescent lightbulbs in Ontario… a province where the consumer’s electricity bill is subsidised by the government. Does anybody else see the inherent policy contradiction here?
April 1st, 2007 at 11:38 am
When it turned noon, the alert went away.
Happy April Fools Day.
April 1st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
In regards to Bill’s thought-provoking retort, I might add that at least those people you think so lowly of managed to scrape together enough sense to use proper spelling and diction. Bravo sir, bravo.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:46 pm
It’s not an april fools joke, it’s actually in the Guiness Book Of World Records
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
In regards to BigBadBill’s thought-devouring retort; if B_y L_isting O_thers’ W_eeknesses M_akes E_lucidation, B_igbadbill I_s T_otally C_ontemptuous H_imself.
And what’s with this ‘Bravo’ crap? F_orget U_sing C_heap K_nucklehead Y_oufemism O_n U_s, next time tell us what you really think of me.
Any incorrect spelling and misplaced uppercase letters in the preceding lines is unintentional and evidence of its hand crafted nature. Maybe.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
SHORTLY AFTER THIS SHOT THAT LITTLE GIRL FELL OFF A LADDER AND BROKE BOTH HER ARMS.