Is there an adorable kitten in the house?
Only in the southern hemisphere, because of the Coriolis effect.
Without a doubt the most important fact not given was location, Is the said lightbulb in the ceiling, in a table lamp, under the sink, over the bathtub, outside, inside, covered or exposed, wait did you forget to turn it on. are you sure you want it changed.
Will penis ensue?
Jesus Christ, someone Pit this lightbulb already.
Will there be pie?
or the subway.
They tried this back in 1960 - Just 1, and it took 20 minutes.
I agree. It is obvious that this is some sort of homophobic attempt to change the natural orientaion of the light bulb.
Well, by sunset, probably.
In my culture changing a light bulb is like being gang raped.
Reported
141,191 and counting
It’s called a lamp.
This lightbulb has been graped by the Grapist.
No, a lamp is just one kind of fixture that a light bulb could be a a part of. For instance, a road sign may have many different light bulbs as components but none of them are ‘lamps’ at all. That does bring us to the inevitable question of what exactly a ‘light bulb’ refers to today?
The name comes from incandescent glass spheres containing a filament of some type first invented in the late 1800’s. The glass bulb is essential not for producing light but for protecting the filament in a vacuum chamber. Without the glass sphere providing a vacuum, the filament will burn out extremely quickly (usually seconds or less).
Scientists and inventors long knew how to produce light by passing an electric current through a filament. What they didn’t know how to do was to keep the filament from destroying itself quickly. Edison and others spent literally thousands of hours on experiments to improve the longevity of the filament using dozens of materials but the key step was to protect the filament from oxygen which is where the ‘bulb’ (not to be confused with the generic term ‘lamp’ becomes so critical).
The glass bulb shaped vacuum chamber design proved to be the most practical not only for its effectiveness at generating light but also because of its ease of mass manufacture. This design proved to be remarkably robust for well over a century but its dominance is quickly drawing to a close.
That brings us to the question of what a light ‘bulb’ actually means today. Incandescent bulbs are being phased out as consumer products in the U.S. and Europe because their main product is not light but heat and that is incredibly energy inefficient. Newer technologies like LED (light emitting diodes) and compact florescent ‘bulbs’ don’t often have a bulb shape at all yet we continue to refer to them as ‘bulbs’.
I propose that we abandon all legacy terms like ‘bulb’ and ‘lamp’ and refer to them all as Photon Emitting Technologies (PETs) no matter what their shape. This switch would be much more progressive and embrace the inevitable march of progress while, at the same time, separating the newer clean PETs from the energy wasting light production mechanisms of the Anglo-Saxon white male patriarchy of the past.
So why is it called “relamping” instead of “re-lightbulbing”, smart guy?
I read this as ‘light emitting dildoes’. And I’m not sure how much of that I’d want to change.
14 k of g in an f p d
14 kilowatts in a freshly …oh screw it