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Interesting. When are they going to have good ones that replace 100 watt bulbs? This one was to replace 60 watt bulbs. Good, but not all the way there yet.

Jesus, someone saw some white people coming from way off....
You will need:

String
Glue
cotton balls
$20 worth of led bulbs and control circuit

"Oh look Susan, some art."

That's true for a post industrial POV.
When machines already exist, and you just need energy to get things moving.

The energetic concerns of bygone eras were :
Whale oil, and later kerosene. For lighting. (note: back then, a day's work would only buy minutes of light)
Firewood, and later coal. For heating.
Manpower was the only energy user when it came to food production.

Early machines such as the combine were horse drawn, and did not need an energy architecture in place. (ignoring "food" as an energy)

Later machines used steam power, and hence could piggy back on the already existing wood/coal energy architecture (in turn stimulating it to grow larger).

Once the machinery industry was established, and the revenue generation was in place, it was possible to invest in improvements and alternative energies - ultimately leading up to oil burning machinery being common.

In any case, historically, industrialization drove the energy industry. (As it should, why have an industry to produce a product (energy) that isn't needed?)
And industrialization depended on a conducive society. A place where an inventor could own his invention, and could sell it, allowing things that were no more than ideas or garage trinkets to transition into products - which in turn place demand on other resources such as [forms of] energy.

In the past, there was nothing, so everything was build from the ground up. Industries grew out of nothing, they weren't established up front.
Modern times are different, where you have investment capital from entities who's entire existence revolves around investing, and you can front the establishment of an industry in the calculated hope of future demand.
(Granted, lords/aristocrats had a hand in industrial investment. Just not the kind or scale that you can see today.)

What you say applies a bit later, when industrialization was already well under way. Like when Thomas Edison used investment capital to fund power plants and an electrical network, in order to power the first [practical, but not 'first'] light bulb in New York.

-scheherazade

Oprah is another dim-bulb that promotes these types...
Seniors, in particular, are easy prey for these con artists, probably because they've lived long enough to see friends and family die.
My mother - suffering the early symptoms of dementia - put her and her 3rd husband deeply into debt because of these creeps. After she was institutionalized, I went through her paperwork and discovered the letters that she had written to various psychics asking for help. It broke my heart -- once they had her hooked they sent her endless letters each promising to reveal big secrets to her and she dutifully sent them money time and time again.
Ellen, show some backbone...

Well, helium is the product of fusion. However, even if we found some "cheap" or "cold" way to fuse hydrogen into helium, I dont think it would be cheap enough to produce useful amounts. Ie producing enough energy to keep a light bulb on for 300 years will produce 1 balloon full of helium. (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/hera/spectroscopy/snr/fusion_calculation.html)

There used to be a magician at Knott's Berry Farm that demonstrated this trick pretty close to the audience and then explained that he had trained for years to create the pathway through his body for the sword to pass through.

The arm is particularly easy because of how the muscles are arranged around the bone. It passes right below the biceps. Not much going on in this particular, dare I say "easy" to pull off location of bloodless stabbiness.
I don't know if the Knott's magician is still there or not, but it was a "magic" show that explained the science behind older, more simplistic tricks like this.

Also included were lots of different types of electricity stunts (static electricity, powering light bulbs through people, etc.), which have fallen to the wayside with magicians because most people nowadays understand electricity and it's not as gut wrenching as this scar tissue build up dealio.

I upvoted for Ricky's reactions and David'd ridiculous goading, but the trick itself is le sigh.

The magician at Knott's had a fairly visible scar on both sides of his arm, as he likely performed the trick A LOT. Serious needle mark action. lol. Blaine probably rarely performs this trick and perhaps used other material, like make up, latex or some such material, glue, creams, etc.

Iss strong guy, soft wood, moving qi (chi), is not so amazink...My 3-yr-old cousin can tear phone book, so what? Grandma chew light bulb, not impressed much.

I've heard that the sounds of the inside of your head start to get to you after a while.

I wonder how the hanging light bulbs don't make any sound. I'd figure they'd have an almost inaudible electric hum.

A quick looky at the San Diego Municipal Code concerning Noise Abatement and Control....Reminding all, that these and ALL enforcement of statutes is left to the discretion of individual patrol cops (not the brightest bulbs in the fixture)
"Loud or raucous yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing on the public streets between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m., or at any time or place, is hereby prohibited."

Since these guys were not using any amplification, they did not fall into that category of noise-If they were doing it after the hours posted that would be an issue, IF they were violating a noise ordinance.

Whats truly fucked is that if in fact these guys were NOT breaking any laws, then arguing with a fucking idiot dressed as a cop would be the offense warranting arrest, and it looks as if this particular fuzz is trying to coerce the guy into an arrest.

This cops a fucking tool. He should trade in his badge for a job with a collection agency or as a private valet for another prick like him.

Hint: Your conventional oven will maintain a perfect temp, by simply putting a 40-60 watt bulb in with the closed oven (small lamp). Most ovens won't adjust to maintain a low temp below 200 degrees all night.

Removing a bulb socket that has separated from the bulb can be done by jamming a potato into the socket and turning. Read that in Grit or somewhere a long time ago.

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I'm surprised he didn't manage to fit in the light bulb research, although I guess that has been done.

Taxes aren't paid to fund free bike lights for god's sake. They all looked as if they could afford a few dollars for lights. I've had a ticket for having a car light out, even though I didn't realize it was out. The cop didn't give me a free bulb. These people know they are breaking the law - not to mention being a danger to themselves and others - and deserve a ticket. What happens now, when another cop gives a lightless bike a ticket? No doubt they'll go to court and say they expected a free light. Nice gesture, but no sense to it.