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The Daring Dufas[_6_]

Zootal wrote:
"hr(bob) " wrote in message
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On Dec 29, 2:46 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Dec 29, 3:12 pm, Jules
wrote:

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:43:13 -0800, DerbyDad03 wrote:
Then I'm going to take all of the strings of Christmas lights that I
own and turn them into hundreds of single bulb strings, each with
their own plug.
Use 4' fluorescent tubes instead - less than 50c/foot and far less
components to worry about. Wrap electrical tape around the tubes to
mask off the bits you don't want visible to give that "lots of small
bulbs" effect.
"Wrap electrical tape around the tubes to mask off the bits you
don't want visible"

When I was a Loran C technician in the Coast Guard back in the 70's,
we used to take 4' fluorescent tubes and slowly approach the
transmitting tower until the tube lit up.

Then we'd hold one end and slide our other hand up the tube. The tube
would only light above our hand, so we could essentially "slide" the
light up and down the tube by moving our hand.

We always made sure we didn't get any closer to the tower than
necessary to get the tube to glow. A megawatt would hurt if the signal
decided you were a good path the ground.

You were a little too close if you got the fluorescent light to
glow!!!!!

Holy crud, they were way too close! One of my old radar instructors used to
tell us about how a few sailors decided to use a fire control radar (1
megawatt peak, maybe ~50KW average power) to "sterilize" themselves before
going on leave for the weekend. Easy to do, just stand in front of the dish
when it is operating. They figured that way their "dates" would not get
pregnant. When you are exposed to microwave radiation, do you know what body
parts warm up first? Anything small that sticks out, such as ears, nose,
lips, fingers, and...other body parts. They sterilized themselves, all
right. Permanently. They should have received some sort of Darwin award for
that stunt.

If I was close enough to any of my dishes for a flourescent tube to light,
I'd probably wet myself.

Did any of them end up with cataracts?

TDD