Year In Pictures: 2010/10/21 - The mystery bulb is a mystery

[plonq]

It came with the house, hung exactly as you see it here. It was obviously hung with a purpose, because it was first wired into place, then wrapped with several windings of tape to ensure that it would not move. There are no fixtures in the house that take a bulb this size. Behind it is a vintage 1978 map of Manitoba.

Comments

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

How.... bizarre...

There must have been a reason, but what? Obviously, its a well used bulb from the dark end.

[atara.livejournal.com]

It's a GHOST DETECTOR!

...it's never gone off. That we've noticed. (It *is* in the basement.)

[pfcottontail.livejournal.com]

Sex dungeon!

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

If life were an adventure game, you'd need to pick up those items, before the game would let you continue.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Except you'd need to find a garden trowel to cut the tape with first.

-TG

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

That's okay - in the study, the second cupboard on the right... just remove the door handle, slide the triangular piece to the left, put the door handle back on, and you'll find the dragon statue. Take the dragon statue to the bird feeder in the observatory, and turn the clock hands to midnight - then when the moonlight hits the water, you can reach in and get the trowel.

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

Sounds like trowel-and-error to me....



*grin*

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

Not "Trowels and Tribulations"?

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Fluorescent bulbs will sometimes glow on their own, in the presence of strong electromagnetic radiation fields. Are you near high voltage power lines or a microwave transmitter?

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine years ago would turn on his powerful ham radio transmitter then walk around the yard outside with a fluorescent bulb. It lit up by all the RF energy and scared the neighbors!

Witchcraft I say! He is of the DEVIL! He can make lightbulbs glow in his bare hands!!!!

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

I'll do you one better. One ham I knew in the 70s had a bulb, and a selenium photoresistor glued to it. He wrapped the entire thing in black tape and walked a circle around his antenna, making notes about the resistance at that point. Then with a piece of angular graph paper, he mapped out his field pattern and then tweaked his antennas.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

Damn, excellent idea! Though, simple Field Strength meters would do the same thing and even then were inexpensive, unless there was a difference in linearity using the bulb/photocell?

nowadays, you could plug all the resistance measurements into an Excel speadsheet and have it do all calculations and graphing! ^_^

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

Beat me too it. Did the house used to be next to a radio or TV station transmitter? When I was in the navy, that was one of the pranks you played on a newb. Gave him an armful of flouresent light tubes and sent him on wild goose chase that eventually brought them out onto the foc'sle. Then the guys in the director would hit him with the fire control radar on low power. The tubes would light up really brightly. This usually produced a screech and tubes crashing down everywhere.

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's enlightening the map?