# The Galaxy Dress

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 17, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873 "2009-11-17T03:05:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873/21 "2009-11-19T15:17:59Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Why stop with clothes, any reason implantable LED’s wouldnt sell to today’s depraved youth?

How many batteries would you have to implant? And the wiring would be a bitch.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873/22 "2009-11-19T16:24:17Z")

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Don’t fall in the pool.

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873/23 "2009-11-20T01:35:46Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> How many batteries would you have to implant? And the wiring would be a bitch.

Why bother with batteries? Why not use tiny thermocouples (or is it thermistors?) and run them off of body heat?

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873/24 "2009-11-20T02:26:31Z")

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Hmmm… could you get hypothermia from them sucking away your heat?

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873/25 "2009-11-20T02:29:24Z")

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That would take an awful lot of LEDs. They keep making them smaller, more efficient and requiring less power.

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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-galaxy-dress/517873/26 "2009-11-20T02:48:37Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Hmmm… could you get hypothermia from them sucking away your heat?

Glow your fat away!

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