The B3TA Detective AgencyUniversalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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the speed of lightI was very interested in science as a kid. (a chance encounter with some post grad students at the age of 5 left me telling my primary school teacher I wanted to be a microbiologist)
I read with great interest about the speed of light and how at that speed something could travel round the earth 7.5 times a second.
I got thinking about this at bedtime when my mum turned the light off. Despite it being the fastest thing in the universe I was somehow able to see light receding from the room towards its source. I was amazed. I was gifted. I had some sort of super vision. I was thick. I was about ten before I realised that it was just the wolfram coil in the bulb cooling down.
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a click for using wolfram(
sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 22:16,
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what else would one use?Common tungsten?!
PAH!
PS, thanks for the click
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Second clickfor the use of wolfram
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Tiffany Aching 's bowl of oatmeal tried to stare her down and won, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 0:48,
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i have to admitI used wolfram simply because that is what I was taught at secondary school in Holland. Same way as it took me a while to figure out that sodium is just another name for natrium (or vice versa depending on where your text books were printed).
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