Bats dropping from trees from heat in Australia

[Channel72]

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Poe's law. I'm honestly not sure if blahface is presenting a clever parody of a parochial village-idiot (because surely no one could possibly this dumb) or if he is one (because people can always surprise you.)

Pretty sure it's parody. I wish I could algorithmically explain why I'm certain of this... but let's just stay that the feature vector here gives my neural network 99.9% confidence that blahface's post was, in fact, a parody.

I think it's mostly the fact that he omitted the "g" in "learnin" in order to emulate hick-speak.

I'd probably be able to confirm this by analyzing blahface's post history... if only I cared enough to do so.

[FSTargetDrone]

Incandescent vs. Compact Fluorescent vs. LED

Many people were used to the slightly yellowish light of incandescent bulbs and feel that CFLs look "unnatural." The above is a comparison between different kinds of bulbs, particularly concerning the color temperature of the light and which bulbs look more or less "natural."

Here is a review of the Philips' Hue System of LED bulbs that you can change to any color you like using an Android or iOS phone app. It's a very expensive, but versatile system. The bulbs are $60 each.

[Simon_Jester]

I've always thought/rationalized that in a house that needs heating, the incandescent bulb isn't such a waste after all; it's doubling as a low-powered space heater.

And yeah, CFLs just can't produce anything with the qualitative value of a blackbody spectrum. Maybe it's psychosomatic, but the light really does seem "cold."

If (bootleg?) incandescents were still available at a time in my life when I have enough free time and discipline to have a good household maintenance routine, I'd be sorely tempted to switch from summer CFLs to winter incandescents.

[Irbis]

I've always thought/rationalized that in a house that needs heating, the incandescent bulb isn't such a waste after all; it's doubling as a low-powered space heater.

No, it does not. I heard that argument before, but people tested it and it just doesn't work. Hot air rises - thus, the best heater is one near the floor, the worst one near the ceiling as almost all its heat is lost. Now, where the lamps tend to be placed?

[Purple]

I've always thought/rationalized that in a house that needs heating, the incandescent bulb isn't such a waste after all; it's doubling as a low-powered space heater.

No, it does not. I heard that argument before, but people tested it and it just doesn't work. Hot air rises - thus, the best heater is one near the floor, the worst one near the ceiling as almost all its heat is lost. Now, where the lamps tend to be placed?

On tables and some times on the floor but with a rather long rod to put them at table height.

[Wing Commander MAD]

I believe he is thinking of what are commonly called light fixtures, typically mounted on/in the ceiling, not table or floor lamps.

[Kitsune]

I believe he is thinking of what are commonly called light fixtures, typically mounted on/in the ceiling, not table or floor lamps.

Where I live, heaters are on the ceiling and lights are on the floor

[Alkaloid]

Just to bring this thread back to it's original topic for a moment:

JESUS BUGGERY FUCK ITS HOT!

Also this is pretty cool.

http://vimeo.com/84194594

[Irbis]

I believe he is thinking of what are commonly called light fixtures, typically mounted on/in the ceiling, not table or floor lamps.

Yes, here, not only all are called just a 'lamp', the wall or table ones are in minority. Every room has overhead one, few have table and wall ones. And even if all of them did, if lamp is about head level, you still won't produce much useful, non ceiling warming heat out of it.

JESUS BUGGERY FUCK ITS HOT!

Here, in bad summer, that chocolate would need to start to smoke, then we could say it's hot