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Outside Christmas LED Lights -- dull and weak....
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David Nebenzahl wrote: On 12/11/2010 8:12 AM Brooklyn1 spake thus: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:54:54 -0500, "RBM" wrote: "James" wrote in message net... Ok, so this year I went out to buy some more outside Christmas lights. Much to my surprise, I could not find any REAL lights, just the fake led lights. I looked at all the big box stores, including Lowe's, Home Depot, and Target. All I could find was the fake led lights. So, I bought a set of led lights strings with C7 led lights. 50 lights on a string, total wattage of 3.7 watts. They say these are much cheaper to run because of the low wattage. But, I have seen that you get what you pay for. These lights are dull and weak looking. Does anyone here know of any store that still sells real outside Christmas lights, or have they all been outlawed too ? Thanks for any info on where I can purchase non-fake Christmas lights !! How can you even think about using real Christmas tree lights, when some kid in Nigeria is starving . The ONLY reason some kid in Nigeria is starving is because its moron mommy didn't have the sense to keep her legs closed. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, you are a *racist asshole*. **** off. Well played :O) And now for some of the slow learners August 27, 2000 UV light, skin color linked Variations due to geography Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO ‹ Two San Francisco scientists using data from a NASA satellite say they have discovered why people come in different colors. Variations in human skin color are the result of adaptations to the amount of ultraviolet light from the sun falling on different regions of Earth, according to Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, scientists with the California Academy of Science. People's bodies change their skin color over time to let in just the right amount of UV light, which is key to having healthy babies. UV light affects the skin's production of folate, part of the B vitamin complex, and vitamin D-3, both of which are essential for having healthy children. Folate is necessary for the proper development of the nervous system in fetuses and for sperm production in adult males. Vitamin D-3 helps build and maintain strong bones and a healthy immune system. But too much solar UV light can not only cause skin cancer, it can also damage those chemicals, thereby hurting a person's chances for reproductive success. The scientists' finding may also explain why women tend to be lighter-skinned than men. Lighter skin lets in more solar UV light, increasing a woman's vitamin D-3 production, which helps the fetus grow during pregnancy and helps nourish newborns through breast feeding. UV light from the sun varies from region to region for reasons including latitude, humidity and cloudiness. Jablonski and Chaplin's discovery isn't entirely new. For a long time, scientists have thought there was a correlation between UV light and skin color, and they knew the light helped produce vitamin D and that it could cause cancer. "But this explanation was considered weak by some scientists because skin cancer has little or no effect on people's ability to reproduce, which is really the bottom line of every evolutionary spreadsheet," Jablonski said. Jablonski developed the hypothesis that links UV light to reproduction in 1991. The scientists analyzed published measurements of human skin color from around the world and data from NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer satellite, which orbited Earth from 1978 to 1993 and gathered direct UV measurements for the entire globe to find the correlation between skin color and UV light. Jablonski and Chaplin found that dark skin acts as a natural sunscreen to help prevent UV light from breaking down folate, so it is helpful in areas with a lot of sun. But in less sunny areas, dark skin screens out too much sunlight, and can inhibit the production of vitamin D-3, so lighter skin is helpful for reproductive success. Skin color is based on the level of melanin, an organic molecule with an undetermined chemical structure. Those with more melanin have darker skin, and melanin levels are genetic. But the variations in skin color are adaptations to solar UV light, not biological differences among people, according to Jablonski and Chaplin. "We're all the same under the skin," Jablonski said. ---- 'Nuff said. -- - Billy "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_vN0--mHug |
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Outside Christmas LED Lights -- dull and weak....
On 12/11/2010 3:47 PM Billy spake thus:
In article , David Nebenzahl wrote: On 12/11/2010 8:12 AM Brooklyn1 spake thus: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:54:54 -0500, "RBM" wrote: "James" wrote in message net... Ok, so this year I went out to buy some more outside Christmas lights. Much to my surprise, I could not find any REAL lights, just the fake led lights. I looked at all the big box stores, including Lowe's, Home Depot, and Target. All I could find was the fake led lights. So, I bought a set of led lights strings with C7 led lights. 50 lights on a string, total wattage of 3.7 watts. They say these are much cheaper to run because of the low wattage. But, I have seen that you get what you pay for. These lights are dull and weak looking. Does anyone here know of any store that still sells real outside Christmas lights, or have they all been outlawed too ? Thanks for any info on where I can purchase non-fake Christmas lights !! How can you even think about using real Christmas tree lights, when some kid in Nigeria is starving . The ONLY reason some kid in Nigeria is starving is because its moron mommy didn't have the sense to keep her legs closed. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, you are a *racist asshole*. **** off. Well played :O) And now for some of the slow learners August 27, 2000 UV light, skin color linked Variations due to geography Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO ‹ Two San Francisco scientists using data from a NASA satellite say they have discovered why people come in different colors. Variations in human skin color are the result of adaptations to the amount of ultraviolet light from the sun falling on different regions of Earth, according to Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin, scientists with the California Academy of Science. [snip article] Thanks for that. Just more evidence that the whole idea of "race" when applied to the human species is pretty much scientifically discredited as being of any consequence. Yes, there are biological differences between "races" (e.g., susceptibility to sickle-cell anemia in blacks), but they're mainly swamped by the overall similarities. Hell, there was a time when it was widely accepted that different human "races" couldn't even interbreed. (And not that long ago when it was widely accepted that they *shouldn't* interbreed ...) -- Comment on quaint Usenet customs, from Usenet: To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign that he is not going to hear any rebuttals. |
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Outside Christmas LED Lights -- dull and weak....
On Dec 11, 7:11*pm, David Nebenzahl wrote:
snip Sorry, pretty boring. Try posting at alt.social.justice or some other progressive site. I would rather discuss home repair/building topics. Thank you. Joe |
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