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MShipley Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 681	the light bulb 01/04/13 at 14:40:55 LOL.......So a new report came out saying that the new curly light bulbs can cause melanoma. (an awful skin cancer). The recomendations are you stay at least 2 feet from the bulbs...........so the world will be cleaner while we all die..........another great mandatory decision from our government.
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Reply #1 - 01/04/13 at 15:05:31

MShipley wrote on 01/04/13 at 14:40:55:

LOL.......So a new report came out saying that the new curly light bulbs can cause melanoma. (an awful skin cancer). The recomendations are you stay at least 2 feet from the bulbs...........so the world will be cleaner while we all die..........another great mandatory decision from our government.

Hmmm... thinking themselves to be wise they became fools.

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Reply #2 - 01/04/13 at 18:07:55

When I was a kid I remember my mom taking me out every September to buy a new pair of school shoes. In those days every shoe store had a great big X-ray machine that you put your feet in your new shoes into to see how the shoes fit. Everyone thought it was really cool to see the bones in your feet...oops, a big mistake there...huge!

I wonder how many shoe salesmen later developed cancer from radiation poisoning?

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MShipley Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 681	Re: the light bulb Reply #3 - 01/04/13 at 18:19:39 I dont remember the foot x-ray but I sure remember playing with mercury all the time..another problem with tthe new light bulbs.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: the light bulb Reply #4 - 01/04/13 at 18:25:20 They know the problems associated..just like they know what GMO food does. The "Unintended Consequences" Are the goals.
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houstonbofh Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 420 Houston, TX Gender:	Re: the light bulb Reply #5 - 01/04/13 at 18:39:57 Harder and harder to find incandescent bulbs, but they are out there. Also, look at the new LED bulbs. Better light for less energy.
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Reply #6 - 01/04/13 at 18:45:55

When I was a kid I remember my mom taking me out every September to buy a new pair of school shoes. In those days every shoe store had a great big X-ray machine that you put your feet in your new shoes into to see how the shoes fit. Everyone thought it was really cool to see the bones in your feet...oops, a big mistake there...huge!

I wonder how many shoe salesmen later developed cancer from radiation poisoning?

how old r u star?

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Starlifter Serious Thumper Offline It only snows seven months of the year here. Posts: 3746 Eastern Michigan Gender:	Re: the light bulb Reply #7 - 01/04/13 at 18:56:02 67 my friend, retired and enjoying every minute of it.
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Reply #8 - 01/07/13 at 03:58:16

I buy boxes of the incandescent bulbs about every 6 months.
I do not like fluorescent bulbs, the light is poor and they do have mercury in them. Think HAZMAT. Fed. gov't mandates for it was a payoff for GE campaign donations. They made billions from the big swap.
LED light is the future. It is clean and long lasting and the light is pretty darn good.

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Reply #9 - 01/07/13 at 05:47:01

Aren't LED lights directional, rather than diffuse like regular bulbs? We now use LED bulbs for landing lights in airplanes, but they are much light a car headlight - a narrow, directional beam of light right ahead of the airplane. They are brighter, and consume less power, which for airplanes means you can have a lighter weight alternator and smaller battery, which weighs less. Of course, everything in airplanes is about saving weight, which is not a concern for my desk lamp.

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 29276 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: the light bulb Reply #10 - 01/07/13 at 06:03:56 I have an idea.... ... ... ... ... ... ... never mind,... it's gone... ... ...
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: the light bulb Reply #11 - 01/07/13 at 07:02:14 That was one of those Incandescent light bulb ideas. Dang bulb blew out when ya turned it on, Theyd sure last a lot longer if there was a button to drop in the socket that would let the voltage climb from 0 to 110 in 1/2 second.
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srinath Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 5349	Re: the light bulb Reply #12 - 01/07/13 at 07:09:02 LED's can or dont have to be directional. I have a beauty of a LED bulb set in a fixture that was made for incandescent ... the reason for the swap ... the incandescent's in that size and type, were NLA. Booya ... LED's were, and are a 1000% upgrade. Cool. Srinath.
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Reply #13 - 01/07/13 at 10:26:23

MShipley wrote on 01/04/13 at 14:40:55:

LOL.......So a new report came out saying that the new curly light bulbs can cause melanoma. (an awful skin cancer). The recomendations are you stay at least 2 feet from the bulbs...........so the world will be cleaner while we all die..........another great mandatory decision from our government.

Rather odd direction. So the CFL bulbs causes skin cancer but not the large tube type bulbs everywhere? Sorry not buying it. I sit at less than a foot from two of them and have for 25 years. I assume they DO have mercury... but again.. so do and did the big bulbs.

FDA FAQ here: http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandPro...

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Reply #14 - 01/07/13 at 11:34:08

Pine wrote on 01/07/13 at 10:26:23:

MShipley wrote on 01/04/13 at 14:40:55:

LOL.......So a new report came out saying that the new curly light bulbs can cause melanoma. (an awful skin cancer). The recomendations are you stay at least 2 feet from the bulbs...........so the world will be cleaner while we all die..........another great mandatory decision from our government.

Rather odd direction. So the CFL bulbs causes skin cancer but not the large tube type bulbs everywhere? Sorry not buying it. I sit at less than a foot from two of them and have for 25 years. I assume they DO have mercury... but again.. so do and did the big bulbs.

FDA FAQ here: http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandPro...

Correct, excellent point Mshipley - oops I mean pine.
Cool.
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