How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?

[Eastie]

One part of the theory eluded me for a while – that is once the hard wired dark sucker sucked up the dark where did it go? Now before anyone jumps in and says “to the power stations of course”, where do you suppose they put it?
I thought for a while that they somehow use coal to store the darkness and once totally full of dark the properties change somewhat and it then becomes coke (the dark rock type, not the liquid form)– however in terms of the physics and chemistry this is just silly.
What I believe is the power stations store it up in large chimneys and stacks (or reactor vessels) and let it out at night. If the chimneys fill up before it gets time to let it out they somehow transfer some of it to the bottom of deep ponds they have at such stations. The reason for this is very scientific, but simply put I speculate that if they didn’t let the dark out there would be nothing for light to travel into, and the universe might not expand at the same speed, or may even collapse in on itself. Who knows what this could do?

[silentC]

Prior to Sir Isaac Newton and others it was widely believed that one could 'see' by means of a ray which was emitted from the eye and extended out to the object that was being seen.

In fact we now believe the opposite to be true; light travels into the eye after being reflected from the object. The problem is, once the light has entered the eye, where does it go?

If you look at a pupil, you will see that it is black. Now as we all know, black is the absence of light. This means two things: one, that no light escapes the eye, and two, that the eye is full of darkness. So where does the light go?

Perhaps the answer is that it is not light that enters the eye but darkness. Everyone has experienced the phenomenom whereby they open their eyes at night and cannot see a thing but ever so gradually objects begin to reveal themselves. My theory is that this occurs because your eyes are gradually drawing the darkness away. If you left your eyes open long enough, say a few hours, eventually you will be able to see as clear as day. Of course we never get to prove this because the nights are never long enough.

If this was the case though, if you were to enclose yourself in a sealed box, why does your vision not improve no matter how long you sit with your eyes open? The answer to this is that you have sealed yourself in a light tight chamber into which no light can penetrate, no matter how hard you attempt to remove the darkness. As your eye sucks in the dark, no light can rush in to fill the void and so you are left with nothing.

It follows that if everyone in the world kept their eyes open all the time, we would never need light globes anyway.

[craigb]

I thought Shroedinger's cat was in the sealed box ??!!

[Sturdee]

[QUOTE][What I believe is the power stations store it up in large chimneys and stacks (or reactor vessels) and let it out at night. If the chimneys fill up before it gets time to let it out ......[QUOTE]

I presume that if they have an accident and let it out early we have an eclipse?


Peter.

[Neal]

SilentC


If you look at a pupil, you will see that it is black. Now as we all know, black is the absence of light. This means two things: one, that no light escapes the eye, and two, that the eye is full of darkness. So where does the light go?

I will give you a clue' the sun shines out of mine' .

Neal

[trevorZ]

The sun is the biggest dark sucker, you only have to look at the lack of dark during the day, so anyone who has the sun shining out of their
ar#e must really be full of the dark stuff.

[Caliban]

forgive me if I digress (regress?)but no one seems to have bothered to mention the psychologist's view that the lightglobe would
1.admit that it had a problem, and
2.want to be changed
hope this doesn't open up any further cans of worms.

[q9]

Did someone mention Shroedinger's cat?

[DaveInOz]

Shroedinger's cat is dead .... I looked.

My theory is that the cats eyes had, over the decades sucked the limited dark in the closed box to such an extent as to cause a 'dark vacume'. While localised to the 'thought box' it acted in the same way as its larger cousin the black hole (which sucks dark at such a rate that you can't actually ever see it as it is surrounded by high speed dark), thus on opening the box the dark rushed in to fill the vacume at such a rate that it caused nuclear fusion, and unfortunatly the cat went supernova.

[silentC]

Apparently, if you strap two cats back to back and then drop them from a height, they will plummet to a point about a metre above the ground and then start spinning at great speed as each tries to land feet first. This causes them to hover just above the ground indefinitely.

Someone tried to develop this theory into a perpetual motion machine but was arrested by the RSPCA.

The same thing works with one cat that has a slice of buttered toast glued to it's back.

It doesn't matter whether or not the cats' eyes are open.

[Eastie]

The buttered hovering cat theory works even better when you lather the cat's back with jam or vegemite and drop it over white carpet. The inherent physical nature of the cat landing on it's feet is equally opposed by the inherent nature of the lathered side being attracted to make contact with said white carpet. Sort of follows the rule that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The cat will basically spin until it cleans itself.

I'm not sure if it has to have it's eyes open or what this has to do with the changing of light bulbs though :confused:

[silentC]

Eastie,

I'm not sure either but it proves one thing: some of us have too much time on our hands

[craigb]

I think that what it proves is that there sre some champion bullshitters on this board (and I mean that in the nicest possible way)

[silentC]

Its one of my job requirements

[DaveInOz]

Its my favorite hobby, I'd rather spin a line of than play with wood.

lucky the question wasn't how many to screw in a light globe ... the answers two, the problem is getting them in there :eek: