What started out as an egg timer at a London pub became a furnishing for bachelor pads before it took its rightful place as the most recognizable icon of psychedelia. The lava lamp became popular with people on LSD not once, but twice, decades apart.
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ok, son on Josh Clark, there's Charles W Shut brine, there's Jerry over their later turned down. You gotta groovy pad going super swinging style like a king square. Could I couldn't get more squares? Outreach ain't square square score score
Could I answer my question? You're not square, but you gotta, lotta lamp in your house. I don't
so they never have really never have had won a view of all. I would love one. I think I one think we had won a college in one of our houses. I doubt very seriously. It was a trademark original lava. Lamp latter lamp,
but is rubbish knock off his own to get work great as a lotta knockoffs? When those near you get little cheap he's now, and it is no good right. You want, though, the real one.
Yeah and I think, if for no other reason than to support the original, the algae
stuff. He made in the U K, yes still, yeah. You believe that I do actually it's great basin.
The woman who owns it now she seems like the type you dislike, sticking to it. Yeah yeah, I could make.
Way, more money, but I'm not going to because this is the way it should be done. As I had started, I'm staying with tradition this has she does it so we're talking about levels and actually chuck. Can you just give me a second here before we start
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It's stupid because, as your two tickets, it could have gone to me. Oh it's a good point. Just dumb. Oh hey did you. What are you gonna be
the radio for the Chiefs now did you turn it down. I for
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my nieces wedding, congratulations, Shelby, India
oh hey, yeah congrats and it was to family weddings. Two out of town family wedding weakens in a row yet so congratulations also to Alex and Catherine,
Emily's cousin. Ok too, we would Columbus, Ohio and injectable nor Joanna Lucky went to these weddings and I was not able to go the Falcons game with that's quite a sacrifice because
guy named Dan, Israel, Dan Dan.
Invited us to hang out in the broadcasts new for the preceding game between the falcon.
It would have been so all over. Then I presume to help call the game. Some, oh yeah. I guess
pretty sure you want to put this on
I told them. You mellow backside thanks, but if you ever come back, let me know I do it. I just remembered I gotta respond to imitate banks. Can I come in
Barb the Wayback back machine. So that's a lotta chit chat yeah. If you dont, like our assize intentions and stuff I'll bet, you hate this episode already, but they net of all that.
I'm doing alive showy, adult and alive showed
the net note of all that is that were about to talk lava lamp stewed, that's the net net year, Wordpress goon. This was, I think you ve, wanted to do this one for a bit right now now look! I am dismayed at the knife I I was like trying to
with an episode idea? Sometimes is harder than others have you noticed skin
But on the world's getting smaller I remembered we did that wine. I numb food feds has a thousand interesting episode near me
civilian find another fad in one of them. That came up with this paradox article about Bob away Elk, whom we should do parents when they saw a guy. Let me see it. This is any
and it was ok. But then I found an article by Zachary Crockett on price, which is
the better websites of all time here. Zachary Crockett is one of the better, like Nonfiction magazine, writers of all time agreed on the web.
And I M this article. The lava lamp just won't quit really can give a boost to the stuff on house of works. Yes, let's go back in time was could happen your way back machine well, and speaking of we actually have way back machine tee shirts. Now I know at our key public debt
I'm store, you got a bunch of different march now I, but where our own version of the Wayback machine, which is better than what's on that t, shirt again
we're going back to nineteen eighteen in the county of Dorset in England
and a little boy name, Edward Craven Walker is born. He would grow up,
and we follow him in the way back machine. As he's growing even should becomes an array of pilot and we'll were to write books like area
going normal and smoothly here he he actually flew recon missions, photographic missions, where they would be no go up in planes and take pictures of what the enemies doing.
And he eventually the war ended and after the war he said, I'm going go live in the subtlety
were in London behind a pub and build this travel agency yeah he actually created a home swapping,
program like air, be ices, unlike the fifties interesting days, pretty head of his time,
He was in a lot of ways seem like so again everything
I'm pretty normally right here, he's just use just travel agency.
And doing quite well, I did I think,
and he goes to the the southern coast of France and what this author cause a life changing trip and he comes back and nudist filmmaker underwater nudists filmmaker. I think you did drugs down there. What do you think? Would they
I just think he took his clothes off for the first time ever he was like love. I had never really noticed the breeze before this is nice. You think I just feels like drugs were involved, it's possible, but he seem to not really think too highly of drug, so I think it was
or dislike you're. Probably right he became a nudists is what it was yeah. I think you're right, so he took his clothes off for the first time he was never nude.
Or that right and in nineteen sixty he actually
pseudonym made a movie called travelling light. It was a short film,
with a naked lady performing under
water ballet that believe it or not did ok in London City had a six month run
when's. The last movie you knew had a six month run at a major theatre in London to take. Maybe there was lucky, probably avatars, alas, what probably so so there was actually Chuck part of a trilogy.
The teutonic no travelling light over the other two son swept because I was trying to get it from
I was trying to watch it. I couldn't find any help bet you were
but I know I couldn't find it either, but that I found some may
of it, and I saw the movie poster forward or wherever. Yes, all that by it was, it was, I think, pretty
he by a movie called Eads on Skis Nudist scheme. Gay son swept sounded like white what this is describing
as travelling lie in travelling. Light was actually think the second of the three it's actually a sweet, little trilogy.
Pre porn time and humanity when, like yeah, like a huge just, a naked persons, gang rape titillating as we get I've, seen a referred to as nudist propaganda films year, which is basically like look. This is like this is the life I went to the south of France. Now you can to, and certainly not pre porn
I was getting about that. We should open up certain pornography. As gonna say we done one on Nudism new beaches. At least we should do an important heavy good. We should that that could be a two part of that, maybe even like three or four air, maybe five or six he had
My life is right. The you should know so appears
thing about having Craven Walkers film film career. Yes
He was very successful at it. He became something of a legend and he
invested his money in building a new to camp. Yes, I could get others dough, here's what I want to do with it. So I'm sure a few of your like whose about love away chill out now we reached the point where the
webs com. It that's right. Now. I've lamps come in one day and I think the mid fifties where
Edward Craven Walker and I believe it's hyphenated actually craven. Walkers is lasting hours at the deal yet and he's hanging out in a pub called the queen's head. The queen said: that's a new form.
In the southwest of London and he's sitting at a bar ordering beer pint.
And he notices
on the bar, along with the liquor bottles. There's a cocktail shaker, but there's
weird bubbles floating around in your glass once it's not like a steel one right in theirs. Actually, you can see pictures of it on the math most site,
Oh really, the original think! Well! Yes, yes, he sitting there about to drink. Like you said,
sky, water and oil and there's little camp stove underneath that heating it
And if you know it looks like a little, what would become a lotta lamp
Scott, the oils and little blobs and his floating around here s, the thing that we all recognise now, but when this dude sees it back, then
and no one had ever seen anything like this. He was like wow look at what is that right and the bartender is like gets an egg timer, yet kind of her we're
answer. But that's weird I mean, let's with that's what the lava lamp sorted out as an egg timer. There's a guy named outright tribute question. It is a guy named Alfred done. It
who is a regular at the queen's head in new forest, had built this thing where it was this class cocktail shaker on a camp stove just a little tiny capstone,
any put oil in the water and when
Oil rose to the top. By the time it took to heat up and rise to the top. It meant that your egg was fully hard boiled. It was an egg timer yeah, but
were Craven Walker, solid at noon,
his way more than an egg crack timer.
Is the most mesmer
rising thing. I've ever seen yet, and so he did it right. He found out the Alfred
Edward passed away, but apparently he had a this is done this than timer, so crack Craven Walker went to most.
The widow, Alfred done it and said hey how bout you saw me this path, the history of bad
but here's the thing you go ahead and I'm going retort
Well, I mean I might even retort for you, because when you look at the history of business in bad deals, he got this patent for less than twenty pounds
but at the same time done its widow was probably like what in the world. Why would anyone ever care about the this it? It's
there there, and not only that this guy does want to make an egg timer. He wants to make something bigger out of this thing,
though he actually rescued a patent from obscurity and improved on it and by the way West Egg doesn't convert. Four pounds is strictly you sd, but there's a site called. I am Kate Cash does inflation
calculation, four pounds o interesting. So twenty pounds, according I am Kate, says
It would be about seven hundred and eighty three pounds today, which is
by a thousand dollars? Roughly, so that's not bad.
I a thousand bucks there would be totally not expecting for
You are never going to do anything with I'm going to take it and present it to the world yeah, so he gets a bottle cold treetop orange squash was a drink that he used to drink as a kid and England. I think so. I don't think it has its original shape, but the shape of that bottle it more or less.
What the shape of the glass of the any law? The lamp that you see today looks on ya. You, ok, you like oh yeah, of course, would be the prototype, and so he gets a thing. He gets a couple of
liquids it is not oil and water. Like I probably thought before I researched this, it is water and wax right
and they are well known and we'll get into the science in a minute but mutually insoluble, meaning that they dont dissolve
No one another, like oil in water.
For an works right. Few other are little chemicals here and there and
got a little light, bulb screwed it into a basin quetta hooked it all up and bought a being bought a boom. The asked your lamp, the Astro LIVE ass. He called it was born yeah. Those asked her light.
Estralla Astro, it that's another of your question. For you, the original name of the law. The lamp was the Astro lamp. Three take a break things. Are it we'll be back read after this and talk about sites?
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or a jerk sides we're gonna talk sites because was actually some physics behind the lava lamp and we're going to explain it because it actually understandable yeah. Who is a guy who wrote this again Zachary Crockett, but this is a host of works article that explains the physics of the inside the lamp part, because I thought that was coming.
Yeah, who is a guy who wrote this again Zachary Credit, but this is a hostile, forks article that explains the physics of the inside the lamp part, because I thought that was can acute. Actually, the bullet
time and then a lamp that illuminates the display and provides the necessary heat to move the blobs again no quotes yeah. That's it though, but that's what yet what you need, but we're gonna talk about more science who, as far as mutually insoluble liquids, go right because it sounds really easy,
right. Yet blobs you get your liquid that blood in you got. You lie to heed the whole thing up. Easy pc, eventually really hard because
but you're walking is a very fine line between some
that will work as a law, the lamp and something that will just not work at all year end or looked like a lotta lamp gone back right. Exactly so you ve got you ve got immiscible compounds
Pounds that don't dissolve into one another, but you need
have them they. They need to have pretty similar densities, you're, not exactly the same cause. Then it won't work but not
two different either because then they won't work either. You'll understand why, in a second, they need to be fairly close and
The reason why ever Edward Craven Walker used wax and water is because water, Plano, fresh water
has a density of one point. Now, it's basically they set point four densities: paraffin wax has the density of point eight, which means that it slightly less dense the water, but close right, very close. So if you heat up something, it tends to expand right
correct when it expands and becomes less dense, which means that something that was more dense before will be less dense, meaning that
It's in some other liquid. That's denser, this less dense thing will flow to the top yeah, but if it's less dense arises if it's more dense
fall and that's why you know if you want to change this density and men make these molecules spread out right. One of the things you can do, especially in the case of a lotta lamp, is to heated.
Right, that's the point of that Bob at the bottom of the lovely. Yet if you see a lot, a lamp is not turned on you to see the blob at the bottom right and the fluid is not water, of course, sitting at the top and their separated, but they're just sitting on top of another right in it actually is water
I was really. I thought there was something else too. They add another some other stuff, but the liquid that the blobs or in is mostly water. Ok, yet so here's the thing when you
on the lava lamp. You turn the that he that you start the heat of the light bulb yes and that wax begins to warm up in liquefied and as it liquefied it becomes less dense and things get really exciting about point right and then is
first to flow to the top right. You like right things are happening. It actually forms what are called still lag tights year anyone's like you feel it a yet you hurry right and as a source of form slight ice. They eventually the tops of a break off. Yet
in it floats up to the top in deadly feel in it and then, as it gets to the top of the lamp it's far enough away from the heat source that asserts to cool down, and so it sinks again to the bottom and as it does, it passes
another glad it's on the way to the top anyone it reaches the bottom. The whole process starts over again and that wax glove get three heated in glues back up in it passes on the way up the glove that it just pass coming back down here and that's a lava lamp and it again it sounds simple, but to get the waxed interfere in the way.
Density. Just right, you have to add some other ingredients and so going back to the original prototype. Those created by
Craven Walker, its
really impressive sure that this guy, with zero chemistry, training whatsoever IA managed to do this ever let alone in just less than a decade
I mean, I imagine those a lot of trial and error. Trying to get that thing. Just right. Look again like I said: if I mean it, you think
sounds easy, go build one on your own right and prepare to be disappointed, and you
and you can make went oil, water, food colouring and then I'll get seltzer
No, no, it's college love away. That's terrible businesses is nothing like this year. Is
That's the whole point of the lava lamp is to create this mood and to have these amorphous blob
separating and floating around and rising and falling in that's the whole effect. You know it wasn't meant to be a lamp. To give much light is to create mood and atmosphere and, as we will see, we keep me making little druggie jokes. That was a big part of why they sold right Boeing we'll get to that dominant right. But you are talking about the fact that I was impressive. It says only five or six,
People actually know that this exact formula still that who work for the real avalanche company yet and there are plenty of knockoffs, but that original that original lava lamp recipe is,
is not known by many people very closely guarded. Yet even in criminal walkers original pattern, it has
ingredients, but it doesn't say in what quantities or anything like that is still a trade secret to this day. Yeah, and you ask
He figured you had to those a lot of trial and Erika
Add the water very slow.
We I, or else it becomes, was known as an emotion, meaning it's just sort of mixed together. Yellow you, king,
conceivably mixed oil and water together, especially if you have in, but you can also do it by stirring it really
faster, yet a mixed together. That's not what you want. You want them to be separate from the first moment they coming.
Take together in the lamp globe right. So one thousand nine hundred and sixty three three years. I think it took them to finally get the design right. He called it the Astro lamp he built a little
in his back yard and his wife at the time in these married four times, but she was like you know he was. The type of gather would finish this thing once you started,
any did, and originally he decided that it was
if it really well. In with this post war, a war to british demand for very flamboyant colorful home furnishings, yeah he's like this is nothing if not flamboyant
in color for the original lava lamp was
yellow liquid water and red wax globs and on a gold base, great looking about groovy as groovy get right.
But he originally envisioned it is like, and this is something for a cool bachelor pad. If you are
a wealthy bachelor and you're, looking to put something. That's very interesting and high end as a home furnishing try the
your lamp? It was originally envisioned as a high and home furnishing.
Yeah they're wrong. There's this one great add that had of the scene of a bachelor
on a magazine page in the caption, said the perfect gift for one's relatives once friends and dash at all one self help
by three year, exactly by three of them. Yet this actually didn't work out very well for cable Walker, because
he and his wife were driving around in their van going to places like Harrods in getting very chile reception. Get these things apparently the Harrods buyer that the Lansford Disgusting
ordered them taken away here. I don't know why can't magazine them is discussing. Well, maybe there's like pure.
Herr stuck the outside and shouting bank. Make love a lamp disgusting right. Well, I imagine that the time, especially in the field England, this postwar transition, was it met with open arms.
Everybody right, I'm sure the traditionalist thought it was disgusting. His blobs thing floating around I get especially with the pubic here
so armed up
Craven Walker? He behaves like the fine, I'm just gonna
my own company in all market. It myself, so we form crest worth, which is the
regional company, that put out the asked your lamp, which we know and love, is lava lamps and, I should say
there are a lot of different names for lava lamps yeah and it's really tough to distinguish which one is actual trade mark. So lava lamp seems
to be a generic term lava light. It seems to be generic.
Lava. All caps is a trade war,
name for the american version, but there doesn't seem to be a trade mark
aim for
the lava lamp there,
no one in England. I really there
call it a lava lamp. I it
The lava lamp was the trademarked, because not that I can see are dumb article cause them motion lamps of that
and I thought that was you avoid the generic term yeah. I thought you were doing that to avoid saying level now. That's so like two thousand five house don't work,
a call it the generic turn. You know it's not kleenex its veto to shew Yonah. That's that's totally worth why they call it that goodness you're, so right are eight. So these things are selling to the rich and powerful. They did not see it.
Lectures at him, but then the nineteen sixty a rolling along LSD comes on the scene. Pink Floyd is in the back room. The yard, birds or upright Sid buried is for reaching out either
looking out and this thing really the Astro AMP really fit in to this whole scene like he was just. He was miss marketing missing from the beginning. He was I, oh, I think he didn't predict.
The sixty psychedelic. He was more like the swing in Austin Powers, bachelor stuff. There was pre psychedelic gear and moved into psychic, but he should thank is lucky stars
I'm sure he did more than once that the psychedelic thing happened because
When that happened in the hippies in law.
Didn't found out about lava lamps, lava lamps took off area just shot off like a rocket and at first
ever Craven. Walker was not known to us
cool. With this I mean he was happy to have the money. His lamp was finally success, but he knew what people were by
these four they were buying them so that they could take acid and stared at him for eight hours right here and now
actually had an ad where he said.
If you buy my lamp, you only
drugs, which is AL seven yak as that should have read this- goes great with drugs right
Linda like drugs that you're going to love my lamp like that,
the level of dedication. This guy should have head Ls De because Ellis D made him a very wealthy person like in the very short amount of time, to take a break, or I will get to talk about how they had America ready for this
Let me tell you about people who love talking and always wanted
in a chill PETE played since he was three and big
his mom to let him stay on the ice. Why some nights he even slept in his happy skates PETE practiced in practice to one day when he was forty. Seven feet realized. He just wasn't that good, so he threw his gates in the trash
but then he heard how Geico proud partner of any Joe could save him money on car insurance. So he switched and saved a bunch, so it all worked out
gas buried. So they're taking off in England, he takes his things to a trade show in Germany in nineteen sixty five and a couple of deeds, name at.
Worth I and William Rubinstein, pretty sure they didn't soon like that you're from Chicago. Yet
So they were just good midwestern, Germans, yeah and
they said I'm gonna I want to buy. Did I want to buy the north american manufacturing rights? We're gonna? Go,
The lava light. Oh and
We have our own drug culture that starting to Burma, we hear nothing, he's a baby
yet right and they were and they got him on tv. They got placement. They got him and doktor who those huge got in the adventures that neither the old tv
leave injures yes says here, though, there was on James Bond, and I looked
high and low for what they were talking about and I actually came across a post on the internet.
I place by
a young, a guy who, who runs out
website Anthony Vas runs a website
I can't remember the name of it.
Maybe lava love or something like that, but he was on their saying. I saw this in an
article that it says it was in a James bond from what James Bond filler they talking about. I'm like a
Osborne like Van Forum. There are ignored
bud,
we don't know it didn't happen well
I have no idea what what James Bond film it was. The first give away to me that that's bogus is here's the sentence,
a red model debuted in nineteen. Seventy, I'm sorry sixty eight absurd of doktor, who this is followed by appearances in the prisoner, the offenders and James Bond.
Talk about generic further movie James Bond sure we should ask the great met. Goarly. Does he know James Bond of the Super Yo Pod gets here
he's an efficient out. He was a! U go Gandhi S called James Binding. They go. I bet goarly window so
on their forum somebody's like maybe that Woody Allen Spoof Casino right now, but I couldn't find any mention of lava lamps and I move either so who knows, but they made some product placement they were. They were stirring the pop up all over the world
and apparently ever Craven Walker knew that he'd made it his wife later recounted when they found out that Ringo STAR had just bought one in nineteen sixty eight, I love it
He also might know he made it by the fact that he saw
seven million of them annually by the end of the sixties.
Apparently he was so eccentric that he would he drove up fire truck yeah. He writer
and if I had drunk, he also drove nothing if it were the car
nothing, but british May jaguars well well the throng of that shit,
much depends on the year because the present pretty terrible
drivers are a wilder and eighty cities
guinea fad would go away and in the late seventies,.
The lava lamp remembered the lava lamps can adjust weren't around that much anymore. Now, by the time we were
they didn't even have like Kitty appeal any longer there dislike, like everyone became the Harrods buyer like these are disgusting, get them out of here, but he was smart enough to know that fads come back around. He did not shut down the business,
he did not just sell it offer pennies on the dollar. No, he kept your leasing new stuff yeah. Nothing really took. I tried to find any like his other little inventions, but I can really get much here so that then made the waves at the Astro. Lamp did
and by the late nineteenth eighties they declined to
thousand lamps per year. That is so few
seven million a year, yet I mean even you'd, think he'd get a thousand like white elephant gift purchases. Sure like look, this is the
Lastly, I could buy mean, I guess it's what they were so,
thousand year that point and
than a woman that we mentioned earlier name. Cressida Granger were preceded, Granger, greening, she's, twenty two years old, Rana Antique booth and saw these things were so
doing like the vintage ones. These use lava lapses. Beckoned, like nineteen, eighty nine, I think, yeah, and so she was like these things. You're gonna sewing. She got touch with the guy with Graven Walker and said: hey I'd like to buy your company or partner with you and crest worth. If your open to it, he said fine meet me at this nudist camp and she
all right. He prepared on and I'll do so high and by all accounts they
fully clothes and struck up a deal where she would take over
operations in managing asthma,
using director, and they had a deal in place and a great deal for her right, where she could, slowly by his company from him overtime right so so thing
being twenty two in having that kind of like get up and go. I love it. They are like I'm starting to sell some vintage lava lamps Argosy if I can buy the company, but then from from Craven walkers perspective you're like
selling a thousand of these a year. When I do nothing, I right yeah I've had a person wants to like like invest in a company. Why not? And so
Cressida Rangers timing could not have been better yet like she was really prescient to notice that, like the vintage lovely,
her sewing the reason the vintage level answer selling was because there was an acid revival going on
the same reason: lovely have sold.
First time round,
the reason they sold the second time around every by discover.
That they really really like. Lsd and lava lamps go really really well with LSD. Well, while not only that, but that was with you no house, music and ecstasy and raves in Austin Powers,
the whole thing: can it came back? What where Austin Powers is like a kind of a third way? The allows mid, delete nineties yeah like getting ninety seven year, so
she oversaw a revival of the lava way up a resurgence in it and like saw them manufacturing uptake in it too.
In the late eighties, early Ninetys and the man
to write that wave through them
nineties when it kicked up even further because of Austin powers and they start to sell so much credit.
Ranger says they saw more in the nineties than they did in the sixties. That's amazing girl and she started the whole thing at twenty two
going up to Edward workers in how about it partner,
and so in nineteen
Ninety one, the twenty year patent, expired and Granger said
in no one realise this they fully, and so we just gonna kept monopolizing. The business
She slowly bought it out over time. I think by ninety two. She reno
The company math mass, which apparently was a tip the cap to Barbara the film yeah. That's there's like that
energy bubble that it lives underneath the city or some great aim at mass and that's what it's called today now if you go the website, she moved into the manufacturing facility, so she didn't say: hey: let's take this state cider ticket to China. Now she said we're gonna keep to it
right here, endorse it and, like you said at the beginning, that is still where these things are made today by hand by british workers, endorse it like
I think they said how many of them can a good worker making a day. Four hundred amazing sit Phil on these bottles by hand right so that if you look at them
math lava lamps and compare the prices
You just find online y know knock off which
the glue, not a knock off, because the patent wore off right, but I'm so knock off. It's it's like eighty bucks compared to like fifteen or twenty bucks for
What looks to be the same thing will actually work a hundred seventy seven pounds, that's how much math mrs now yeah like their standard, the original classic, lava lamp.
Seventy seven pound gotcha the reason why there that much more is because their hand made in the U K, just as they have been since the sixties. I love it. Man is pretty cool and in she said that there's a lot of pressure further transfer production overseas.
Words can be way cheaper and she can make way more money and she's like nope, I'm keeping a here, the other more
pensive in. We would sell more if we were cheaper, but do I'm just not doing if you haven't noticed some rich one.
I am sure I have been pretty well off since twenty two of em.
I've got all ass it I can take no our aid. Should we talk about a.
I want to say I want to say one more thing and do
That is another reason I think Cressida Rangers pretty awesome. She kept ever
Craven Walker on as a consultant yeah up into his death, even though she sheep have full control the cup.
I think in ninety ninety eight or whatever, and he was done she kept them- is consulting those very until he died in it was two years.
Later, but she had no one who's gonna die church unless she poisoning with a lot of acid or something which is better.
To do that, but I thought that was a pretty
I can say for sure that she kept the way I am the original creator. The second creator on is that control I'd like to meet her window, so yeah. I think we should give some lovely emptive
because, frankly, if I were out there listening in this happen to me during research hearing all this stuff, I be
like. I want a levelling up here, so
bilateral answers. Actually, some things you need to know about how to use it correctly. Yes, so the
Currently, the bottles irreplaceable, so
do run out after about two thousand hours of operating time, so they sell replacement bottles which is really nice yeah. I dont know about this, took to get rid of your old bottle, make a hole in the mail
cap with a sharp point yeah. I also saw that you took to get rid that seems
your arm, that's what the math must site recommends really yeah to read. They say you can recycle the glass he's gotta get rid of the contents inside. I also saw there's an s f, gay
article on how to revitalize vintage lava lamps and they say you can get that cap off with vice. I also should not do that. Don't do that.
In fact, in tell you to do that, but I'm just saying I saw it on s f k yet another. Do that so recycle it. You can get the bottle replace the liquid eventually will fade
at least, that the color in the liquid well yeah overtime, like we said that two thousand hours I mean it's a lot of ours- sure a lot of acid
lotta trips, here's another when the way, the very first time you take it out of the box, it may take up to an hour and a half to start working, but once you have used it, it doesn't take quite that long
It may take up to an hour and a half to start working, but once you have used it, it doesn't take quite that long.
Cold. It won't work right, yeah, you don't want a near and air conditioner draft or anything like that or the sun necessarily while the sun will make the color fade them much faster near right. So you you
If it's to call him or work, but then they also have
tendency to overheat two, yet
oh you, if it's to call them or work, but then they also have a tendency to overheat two, yet
lava. Lamp is just a single love is just a big blob. That means it's over heated
or the universe is ending around here. You re now so eight to ten hours they set as the MAX
We on that thing in a row of so gain internet, often medical, yeah, yeah, that's through you that your fix you, let it cool and
whereas they said is the max. You want to run that thing in a row of so gain internet, often medical yeah
between uses. Let it cool completely and that's his. Can extend the life
you're whack so much longer, but then
reason you don't want to overheat. It is because it is possible- and it's probably not possible for it to overheat with the young
but with the ball, but seldom the glass. But one thing they say is never ever ever. Put that thing on the stove which some people
dont near an you can understand why you want to do that. You gotta hot data or your asses, kicking in faster than you think collapse of rye is taking too long to you'd. Put it on the stove. You don't
to do that in seriously will at least one
person has died from putting the lava lamp on a hot stove, yet that it's hard to believe, but you sent this over two thousand for young men
Philip Quinn was twenty. Four years old and KIT Washington put his lab.
Upon a stove, it exploded and shards of glass shut in to his heart. He stumbled in his bedroom and died, and apparently no drugs or alcohol were involved, so wasn't like he was just like messed up and go in and around it sound like you just wanted a heated up fast, dived, that's what I think is,
patient wanted, is love, lamp, heated up and then some Yahoo drank it right. Yeah, some somebody in the in the ninety ninety six article in the annals of emergency medicine. They describe a guy in his mid sixties, who drank, though
Contents of lava lamp, wavy gravy yeah then immediately regretted it because he spent three months recovering from kidney failure, man, what a dummy and then
there's one more thing about love lamps, as is pretty recent, can awesome there's a company called cloud flare. Yet it understand this at all.
Ok, so, whenever you're on the web, when you go into a new a new website you're, actually I done your ear assigned a Co.
That you use on their website and it's supposed to be random rules for some. Somehow hackers can impersonate you if it's not a random code humans or not
capable of generating random numbers and the computers we programme by extension, aren't either I can generate random number. You can't,
eight nine seven six to then our anthem, though
before any of you were like the new internet security guy, just turned spitting out. Nonetheless, foiled foil,
what way for now
until they employ you. This company cloud flare has us
all of a hundred lava lamps in a camera recording their movement and they d?
completely random unpredictable movement of these globs on the video screen gets turn into pixels and those pixel.
Get turned into a random number. So
Random number is generally
by the movement of lava lamps and that's how about fifteen percent of internet trade
gets their random numbers security costs generated by about
of lava lamps, a cloud flares offices in San Francisco. That's pretty cool of courses in San Francisco. Of course, they they micro dose out there, which I think we ve been on the record, is
looking down on you, wanna hear an interesting
bit about random numbers, and I dont know if this is trick were
quick gimme, another random number, nine, eight, six, seven, five, three o nine ten years! Well, that's why
Doretha, apparently that old song eight hundred and sixty seven five thousand three hundred and nine Jenny. If you go to a store where you have a rewards program, they say enter your number apparently enough. People sign up using that number that you can go to any store in the country and spa
number out and you will get the whatever diskin- try- that nice work,
like a traveler and going to the bath MO
while a wine should elect you got your bedlo card might go, I'm just in town with a demos in Atlanta to say it's, except by three nine thats awesome, and what? If they're like
you're the one thousand customer, whatever you're under arrest new chip in its bad news from their it's gotta, be the last acid reference.
I don't know ways there, one in this listener, milk eminently that we can work one in so
If you want to know more about lava, lamps go get one, and maybe you know if you ve got the coin splurge for him made one from UK for Math most, if not get one from lava like you're in the? U s you judge ports is given
Allie bother Amazon whenever Footsore Bone, ok and since I said whatever fledge about them,
this time there was a covers board breaking, follow up, sometimes episodes that I think leg lives. Fine, we get tons of reactions. Will this only discuss?
something wrong right. Physics, well that too, but we had a lot of Karachi.
Martial arts
yeah you will write an enthusiasm about war breaking right. They really were ended, as this is a kind of a two part or with a little correctly in the guise of Singapore. Breaking it sounds I get a confusing source of unclear it up. He said that when breaking aboard with they karate chop, you want the grain parallel to your hand, but you weren't sure what to do with the grain when striking, with close vest, and can I what matters is an orientation of the grand compared the hand with orientation relative to have a port is supported
I would stress, the board, naturally wants crack along the green, not across it. Do you wanna be sure that the grain is an oriented said that these fibers in the wood span from one support to the other, like the person holding it will be to see
some air and oriented correctly. The grain will be parallel to the hand for an open and a job. That's just coincidental whipping oriented correctly compared the supports us. It will say this clearly eyes totally. I can understand why you're source had trouble
Clearly, they think by source they mean illumined, that's from David Brand,
and then we also got a
a bit of the formula wrong for force, equals mass times acceleration. Yes, he said its force because Mass Times acceleration not force equals Mass Times velocity,
thing is with physics like most of those terms or interchangeable general. It means the same thing Joe Dire says: acceleration is the derivative velocity velocity is the derivative, a position and Joe also says. Yes, I'm an engineer sold bust. Your chops over this, too bad
thanks Joe for being nice and thanks to everyone who wrote in with those corrections in your enthusiasm for board break
so Jura, both of those never know
Oh dire, wrote that when an endangered Branson gotcha of branch of missouri- no ok here, maybe I'm pulling up nice Missourians or nice and its
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