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[Lamp]

My eyes! My ears!

 

[caLLous]

Science Museum - Launchpad Online - Launchball

 

[Job]

Let' soothe them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKOc2S1AkjE

 

[Huntingtons]

Isang Litrong Liwanag ADVERTISEMENT - YouTube

the sad thing is that it took MIT students to figure it out -.- whats the world comming to.

 

[Lamp]

Just come back from the cinema - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Good movie. Well acted. Beautifully directed - but you need your brain in gear to follow the plot as its quite complex.

 

[Aph3x]

Just saw this, if you remember a Louis Theroux show about crazy yanks you may see a face or two you recognise, the signs stand out.

Foo Fighters - Keepin it Clean in KC - YouTube

 

[ileks]

Isang Litrong Liwanag ADVERTISEMENT - YouTube

Am I missing a joke here?

 

[Huntingtons]

Am I missing a joke here?

why do you think that?

 

[ileks]

At first I thought it was doing it at night (like those garden lamps you see in the UK) which would have clearly been bollocks since it's just a water bottle So I thought it was like one of those spaggetti tree videos for April fools.

Then i realised people are calling a water bottle plugged into the roof an "invention".... genius.

 

[Lamp]

if you've lived in a dark shitehole for years and suddenly you now live in a well-lit shitehole its a big thing mkay

 

[Ch3tan]

At first I thought it was doing it at night (like those garden lamps you see in the UK) which would have clearly been bollocks since it's just a water bottle So I thought it was like one of those spaggetti tree videos for April fools.

Then i realised people are calling a water bottle plugged into the roof an "invention".... genius.

Try again...

Have a look at this video too

Plastic soda bottles become light source - YouTube

 

[ileks]

Why not just have a window, or build part of the roof with something semi translucent? or just open the door? All of which would be substantially more effective.

The tone of the video (along with the youtube comments) just seemed way over the top for what it is.

 

[caLLous]

Because they don't have B&Q in their cobbled-together shanty towns?

They are not exactly detached properties either, houses all backing onto each other = no "door" to open and they won't have openable windows anyway.

It's a good video of a great idea, I don't know why you can't grasp that. :\

 

[ileks]

Sorry you are right, these are of course better than having no light at all and I'm sure lots of people will be better off because of it.

I just think some of the praise it is getting is way over the top. The comments on the youtube thread praising god etc. are truly baffling.

Being equivalent to a 50W bulb sounds great, but simply having a 20x20cm hole on the roof (based on a very rough calculation) covered by something translucent ( perhaps even the same plastic as the bottle is made from) would be more effective.

 

[Ch3tan]

I think it's the bleach / water mixture along with the plastic that makes it shine like that, so no, just having a translucent hole would not give the same effect.

Here you go, if you still don't see why that's amazing, there is no helping you.

http://www.createandshare.net/scien...light-solar-lights-plastic-water-bottles.html

 

[caLLous]

I just think some of the praise it is getting is way over the top. The comments on the youtube thread praising god etc. are truly baffling.

Being equivalent to a 50W bulb sounds great, but simply having a 20x20cm hole on the roof (based on a very rough calculation) covered by something translucent ( perhaps even the same plastic as the bottle is made from) would be more effective.

Tbh it probably wouldn't throw the light as well as a curved object like the bottle would. The water would cause all sorts of diffraction and whatnot, throwing the light out of the sides of the bottle and making it 3 dimensional unlike a flat something covering a hole in the roof.

And another "tbh", I didn't read any of the comments, any links to religion and praising god can indeed gtfo. It's just a decent bloke who's had a nifty idea, going round trying to help people out and improve their living conditions.

It doesn't half annoy me when religious types invoke the god card at every opportunity.

edit - I don't know if the bleach would help with the light powah or if it would just keep the water clean and clear and make it easier to have the unit sealed (so they don't need to open it up and change the water and risk leaking and stuff). I can't help feeling that we are over-analysing this though!

 

[Ch3tan]

^ see my link in the post before your's cal, also this has been done for years in the favella's in Brasil apparently.

 

[caLLous]

Yezzir. Something clever and inexpensive being put to good use - that's what this world needs more of.

 

[old.user4556]

Made In Chelsea is back on tonight.

Made in Chelsea - E4.com

Utterly fucking crap TV about posh, contrived Chelsea dwelling nobodys. Yet, it's strangely addictive .

 

[ileks]

Tbh it probably wouldn't throw the light as well as a curved object like the bottle would. The water would cause all sorts of diffraction and whatnot, throwing the light out of the sides of the bottle and making it 3 dimensional unlike a flat something covering a hole in the roof.

And another "tbh", I didn't read any of the comments, any links to religion and praising god can indeed gtfo. It's just a decent bloke who's had a nifty idea, going round trying to help people out and improve their living conditions.

It doesn't half annoy me when religious types invoke the god card at every opportunity.

edit - I don't know if the bleach would help with the light powah or if it would just keep the water clean and clear and make it easier to have the unit sealed (so they don't need to open it up and change the water and risk leaking and stuff). I can't help feeling that we are over-analysing this though!

Yes the bleach just stops you having to change the water too often. And yes we (me) are over analysing this

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Only 10 days until the Alan Partridge autobiography comes out

 

[megadave]

"needless to say, I had the last laugh"

 

[Gwadien]

When I was ickle, I used to think that Michael Parkinson invented Parkinsons desiese, I once asked it, infront of a person, who had parkinsons...

 

[caLLous]

disease*

If I don't, Wazz will.

 

[Gwadien]

disease*

If I don't, Wazz will.

I'm dyslexic













lol joke, im just a cunt

 

[Wazzerphuk]

disease*

If I don't, Wazz will.

Not all the time. Just of people I expect to know better. I guess that means either he isn't on my radar or I expect nothing better of him.


*rub*

 

[Gwadien]

Not all the time. Just of people I expect to know better. I guess that means either he isn't on my radar or I expect nothing better of him.


*rub*

Guess you was expecting a reaction?

WELL YOU FUCKING GOT ONE!

 

[caLLous]

were*

Dammit.

 

[Gwadien]

were*

Dammit.

Couldnt give a fuck about Grammer and Spelling on a forum, if Im honest mate.

 

[old.Osy]

To be honest, 50% of the brits on this forum make the same mistakes, it's like attempting to use the windshield cleaning liquid of your car while it's raining.