18 May
2005
18 May
'05
8:12 p.m.
>>>How many people saw that Nova?
No,
not Nova. "Minds Of Our Own"
>> PBS
session where they handed ENGINEERING
>>undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires? Many of the students
>>were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
Was the Nova staged or something? Surely engineering
undergrads would know
how to make a light bulb light up. I call bullshit.
It does seem hard to believe. But it wasn't staged.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ep/almanac/797.htm
Some thought that it "could not be done" without a socket.
Very few realized, even with a broken bulb at hand, that a bulb has two
contacts.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com