Worlds Oldest Lightbulb.

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Thought this was kind of cool...

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A light bulb hanging in the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department has been burning steadily for exactly 110 years, according the Centennial Bulb website. Since the "Centennial Bulb" was first turned on, the stock market crashed and was reborn, the nuclear age began, two World Wars were fought, cars and planes were developed … and through it all the bulb kept burning.

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Full story: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/18/worlds-oldest-light-bulb-still-burning-after-110-years/?test=faces

Vaya · **Joined:** May 2009 **Posts:** 1848 **Location:**

Interesting, but why are they putting it in such an open place.

Amarisa · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4049 **Location:** Magic

mythbusters mens!

Mirosuke · **Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2011 8:44 am

amazing :o

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Damn.. that's cool!

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

That bulb is hax. Probably made by aliens.

XMoshe · **Posted:** Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:33 pm

And how will/did they proof its that old? o.O

paul855 · **Joined:** Jun 2011 **Posts:** 209 **Location:**

I'm going to steal it.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

paul855 wrote:

I'm going to steal it.

Then do it go ahead! Dare you?
Just... don't blame us if you get too creeped out by anything. :giveup:

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

XMoshe wrote:

And how will/did they proof its that old? o.O

Forget that....how can they prove that it was on all this time? No one ever flipped the switch or asked for it to be turned off? Building never had a power outage in 110 years?...I can understand a bulb lasting for many years if it doesn't stay on all the time.

Scarth · **Joined:** Dec 2009 **Posts:** 492 **Location:** ಠ_ಠ

More importantly: If they had the technology to create such a bulb 110 years ago, why am I still buying new ones regularly? ಠ_ಠ

EvGa · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 2612 **Location:** Texas

Looks like it has a really thick element that doesn't produce much light/heat/wear.

Shomari · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 2341 **Location:** Limbo

Scarth wrote:

More importantly: If they had the technology to create such a bulb 110 years ago, why am I still buying new ones regularly? ಠ_ಠ

thats the point.

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

Scarth wrote:

More importantly: If they had the technology to create such a bulb 110 years ago, why am I still buying new ones regularly? ಠ_ಠ

Cuz nothing nowadays is made to last. If you don't need to buy the same stuff all over and over again every once in a while, these ppl ain't getting money. It's all about bad quality these days.

TheKnight · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 3067 **Location:**

Scarth wrote:

More importantly: If they had the technology to create such a bulb 110 years ago, why am I still buying new ones regularly? ಠ_ಠ

All this because somneone tought that World's resources are infinite couple hundred years ago
Same fcking thing with printers btw! altough you can cheat them ^^

Morgoth · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 854 **Location:**

Interesting. I never knew that and I've been living in Pleasanton for the past 10 years xD

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