Here's a question I bet no one can answer.....

How many light bulb filaments will burn throughout the USA this
Christmas season. The number is probably too large to fit on any
calculator.... Just think, if everyone had 300 lights on their tree,
times the number of people that have a tree, that would be a super
huge number. But that dont take into account those that decorate
their whole lawn, have more than one tree, the public parks that light
the whole park with a million or more bulbs, the cities that decorate
every light pole, the trillions of lights in the stores and
businesses, and the list goes on.... Yeah, there are some people that
dont decorate at all, but they are insignificant compared to all the
other lights. I went to a local park last night. They have 1.2
million lights this year. I took my view off that entire park and
looked at one bulb. That got me thinking about this...... And come
to think about it, where the heck do all these bulbs come from?????

Next week, the question will be: "how many watts do these lights all
consume"? Maybe there is an actual (rough) figure that the power
companies could provide......

Mark

wrote:
Here's a question I bet no one can answer.....

How many light bulb filaments will burn throughout the USA this
Christmas season. The number is probably too large to fit on any
calculator.... Just think, if everyone had 300 lights on their tree,
times the number of people that have a tree, that would be a super
huge number. But that dont take into account those that decorate
their whole lawn, have more than one tree, the public parks that light
the whole park with a million or more bulbs, the cities that decorate
every light pole, the trillions of lights in the stores and
businesses, and the list goes on.... Yeah, there are some people that
dont decorate at all, but they are insignificant compared to all the
other lights. I went to a local park last night. They have 1.2
million lights this year. I took my view off that entire park and
looked at one bulb. That got me thinking about this...... And come
to think about it, where the heck do all these bulbs come from?????

Next week, the question will be: "how many watts do these lights all
consume"? Maybe there is an actual (rough) figure that the power
companies could provide......

Mark

Power company spokesman said it would cost $14 worth of electricity to
light average Christmas tree this season

Frank

Power company spokesman said it would cost $14 worth of electricity to
light average Christmas tree this season

Frank

LED lights look great have LONG life, and cost a small fraction of
regular lamps.

certinally under a buck for the holidays

wrote:
Here's a question I bet no one can answer.....

How many light bulb filaments will burn throughout the USA this
Christmas season. The number is probably too large to fit on any
calculator.... Just think, if everyone had 300 lights on their tree,
times the number of people that have a tree, that would be a super
huge number. But that dont take into account those that decorate
their whole lawn, have more than one tree, the public parks that light
the whole park with a million or more bulbs, the cities that decorate
every light pole, the trillions of lights in the stores and
businesses, and the list goes on.... Yeah, there are some people that
dont decorate at all, but they are insignificant compared to all the
other lights. I went to a local park last night. They have 1.2
million lights this year. I took my view off that entire park and
looked at one bulb. That got me thinking about this...... And come
to think about it, where the heck do all these bulbs come from?????

Next week, the question will be: "how many watts do these lights all
consume"? Maybe there is an actual (rough) figure that the power
companies could provide......

Mark

I sometimes like to ask myself questions like this- usually don't stop
till I get a satisfactory answer. Taking your figure of 300 lights per
tree, multiply it by 100 million trees as a rough guess at US tree
prevalence, then say simply double it to include all those other lights
you mention, gives 60 billion lights. A large number to be sure, but
many curious calculations yield more extravagant sums. Some multiple of
this would give a global figure- perhaps 4-5x.
Just to keep you busy for the holidays, what is the total volume
in cubic yards(or meters if you prefer) of of the world's human
population?

Sev wrote:
Just to keep you busy for the holidays, what is the total volume
in cubic yards(or meters if you prefer) of of the world's human
population?

I know! I know! (waves hand in air!).

But I won't tell you.

I can say that the entire world's population, if stacked like cordwood,
would fit in a cubic mile. Further, the 2,000-odd salt domes along the Gulf
Coast average six cubic miles of salt. Each.

And, if we could stand the population density of Hong Kong, we could all
live in the state of Georgia (which is pretty grim when you think on it).

On 1 Dec 2006 06:15:03 -0800, "
wrote:


Power company spokesman said it would cost $14 worth of electricity to
light average Christmas tree this season

Frank

LED lights look great have LONG life, and cost a small fraction of
regular lamps.

certinally under a buck for the holidays

I put out a lot of LED strings this year. A couple of them failed
within the first 2 days. Maybe it's just "infant mortality".

Both of these strings are the type with an internal full wave
rectifier. I expect to examine one to see if I can tell what failed.
--
24 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy

On 1 Dec 2006 06:34:49 -0800, "Sev" wrote:


wrote:
Here's a question I bet no one can answer.....

How many light bulb filaments will burn throughout the USA this
Christmas season. The number is probably too large to fit on any
calculator.... Just think, if everyone had 300 lights on their tree,
times the number of people that have a tree, that would be a super
huge number. But that dont take into account those that decorate
their whole lawn, have more than one tree, the public parks that light
the whole park with a million or more bulbs, the cities that decorate
every light pole, the trillions of lights in the stores and
businesses, and the list goes on.... Yeah, there are some people that
dont decorate at all, but they are insignificant compared to all the
other lights. I went to a local park last night. They have 1.2
million lights this year. I took my view off that entire park and
looked at one bulb. That got me thinking about this...... And come
to think about it, where the heck do all these bulbs come from?????

Next week, the question will be: "how many watts do these lights all
consume"? Maybe there is an actual (rough) figure that the power
companies could provide......

Mark

I sometimes like to ask myself questions like this- usually don't stop
till I get a satisfactory answer. Taking your figure of 300 lights per
tree, multiply it by 100 million trees as a rough guess at US tree
prevalence, then say simply double it to include all those other lights
you mention, gives 60 billion lights. A large number to be sure, but
many curious calculations yield more extravagant sums. Some multiple of
this would give a global figure- perhaps 4-5x.

And how many barrels of oil are burned to generate electricity for
them?

Just to keep you busy for the holidays, what is the total volume
in cubic yards(or meters if you prefer) of of the world's human
population?

I remember hearing once that the total volume of the world's INSECT
population would exceed that.
--
24 days until the winter solstice celebration

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com

"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy

That depends also..........if all the bulbs are GE Light Bulbs. If
so.......the number would be even higher!! GE sucks.

wrote in message
...
Here's a question I bet no one can answer.....

How many light bulb filaments will burn throughout the USA this
Christmas season. The number is probably too large to fit on any
calculator.... Just think, if everyone had 300 lights on their tree,
times the number of people that have a tree, that would be a super
huge number. But that dont take into account those that decorate
their whole lawn, have more than one tree, the public parks that light
the whole park with a million or more bulbs, the cities that decorate
every light pole, the trillions of lights in the stores and
businesses, and the list goes on.... Yeah, there are some people that
dont decorate at all, but they are insignificant compared to all the
other lights. I went to a local park last night. They have 1.2
million lights this year. I took my view off that entire park and
looked at one bulb. That got me thinking about this...... And come
to think about it, where the heck do all these bulbs come from?????

Next week, the question will be: "how many watts do these lights all
consume"? Maybe there is an actual (rough) figure that the power
companies could provide......


I have a nieghbor that claims he puts up 50,000 lights on his house/yard.
I went to one house that had 3 - 200 amp services to power the lights.

Bob

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:21:44 -0600, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Sev wrote:
Just to keep you busy for the holidays, what is the total volume
in cubic yards(or meters if you prefer) of of the world's human
population?

I know! I know! (waves hand in air!).

But I won't tell you.

I can say that the entire world's population, if stacked like cordwood,
would fit in a cubic mile. Further, the 2,000-odd salt domes along the Gulf
Coast average six cubic miles of salt. Each.

And, if we could stand the population density of Hong Kong, we could all
live in the state of Georgia (which is pretty grim when you think on it).


Here's an interesting fact.....

Figuring the avarage male penis is 6 inches.
If all the penises from every man on earth were removed and lined up
end to end, they would encircle the entire earth approximately 12.253
times.
Or that would be roughly 610,346 miles of penis.

Of course, in order to cross the oceans, lakes and rivers, they would
have to be strung together on a rope, like beads.

Everyone needs to know this LOL......

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:54:29 -0800, "Bob F"
wrote:


wrote in message
.. .
Here's a question I bet no one can answer.....

How many light bulb filaments will burn throughout the USA this
Christmas season. The number is probably too large to fit on any
calculator.... Just think, if everyone had 300 lights on their tree,
times the number of people that have a tree, that would be a super
huge number. But that dont take into account those that decorate
their whole lawn, have more than one tree, the public parks that light
the whole park with a million or more bulbs, the cities that decorate
every light pole, the trillions of lights in the stores and
businesses, and the list goes on.... Yeah, there are some people that
dont decorate at all, but they are insignificant compared to all the
other lights. I went to a local park last night. They have 1.2
million lights this year. I took my view off that entire park and
looked at one bulb. That got me thinking about this...... And come
to think about it, where the heck do all these bulbs come from?????

Next week, the question will be: "how many watts do these lights all
consume"? Maybe there is an actual (rough) figure that the power
companies could provide......


I have a nieghbor that claims he puts up 50,000 lights on his house/yard.
I went to one house that had 3 - 200 amp services to power the lights.

Bob


Look at this one:
http://christmasdisplay.org/


There are more to be found here....
http://v.webring.com/hub?ring=christmaslightin

Well if you put me in the line...make it 13 times around.