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On 2011-11-10, Davey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:24:35 -0000
"Lieutenant Scott" wrote:

On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:00:04 -0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Ian Jackson wrote:
In message m,
"dennis@home" writes


"Chris J Dixon" wrote in message
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Jules Richardson wrote:

On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:38:12 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:


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It's like photocopying cold to make it warmer...

Perhaps it comes from the same school of thought that tells us
electric current flows in the opposite direction to the
electrons.

Oh come on, everyone knows its the holes that go that way.

And that light bulbs work by sucking the darkness in.

*shrug* Its a theory. But really, what isn't?

(serious deep question)

It's a stupid theory. The bulb would get bigger and bigger with all
that darkness in it.


It's dark. You can't see it.

Don't be silly. It's piped away down the wires to the power station, where
it's converted into clouds. That's why it's cloudier in the winter when more
people have their lights on.

The process of piping the darkness back to the power station is not 100%
efficient. Some residue gets left in the bulb, and can this can usually
be seen as a dark film on the inside of the glass. In time, this becomes
more and more apparent, and the light progressively becomes dimmer and
dimmer. Eventually, the piping mechanism fails completely, causing the
bulb to fill up instantly with saturated darkness.
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Ian