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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 9:31am PST - promote requested by original submitter arvana.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bulb, filament, tungsten, ductile, engineering, the engineer guy' to 'incandescent, bulb, filament, tungsten, ductile, engineering, the engineer guy' - edited by kronosposeidon

He could do an awesome Alec Baldwin voice impersonation

I like this guys videos. I took this pic with my telescope, indoor:
http://www.pbase.com/mclemens1969/image/75141501

Visually through the eyepiece I could easily see the inner coil as well... from across the entire length of the house.

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I've heard the word ductile before - but never really understood what it meant. Now I do.

This definitely goes on the list of things mankind would be totally unable to make after the apocalypse.

>> ^raverman:

This definitely goes on the list of things mankind would be totally unable to make after the apocalypse.


Totally! I want something like Wikipedia except full of the accumulated knowledge of how to actually manufacture stuff. I have to imagine that so much of this engineering knowledge gets lost.

I'd like to see more of these on the sift, it was definitely worth the time. Quite a bit of information in a short piece like this.

This is what the sift used to be like, before the invasion of cats, fails, and farts. Oh, the good old days. >> ^kceaton1:

I'd like to see more of these on the sift, it was definitely worth the time. Quite a bit of information in a short piece like this.

I like this guy's videos - but something about him creeps me out a bit.

1500C while pumping Hydrogen gas over it? Does that sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
Do they do that in an oxygen free environment or something?

>> ^grinter:

1500C while pumping Hydrogen gas over it? Does that sound like a bad idea to anyone else?
Do they do that in an oxygen free environment or something?


Actually they never said it didn't burn off--maybe they don't use that much. Could be just to keep the heat even. But, yeah I'd have to find out about the fabrication process.

>> ^raverman:
This definitely goes on the list of things mankind would be totally unable to make after the apocalypse.


Unless this guy survived...