[geeks] OT: Q. about Lava Lamps...

[Ken Hansen]

Well, I'll not be moving to minnesota anytime soon ("Not that there's anything wrong with that...") but I appreciate your testing the theory...

The lava is flowing better now, all is right on my desktop (for now)...

Thanks all,

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Hatle, Steven J. [mailto:shatle at vue.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:13 PM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] OT: Q. about Lava Lamps...


Yup, it's the temperature in the room. 

Lamp heats blob, blob rises, blob cools off, blob sinks.  .  .repeat.

If the ambient temp in the room is high enough, the temp in the bottle is
even enough that the blob kind of gets to a steady state and doesn't do much
of anything.

I've empirically proven this theory by taking my Lava Lamp that did the same
thing, cracking a window during a nice Minnesota -20 F cold spell, and
running the Lava Lamp on the windowsill. Worked like a champ <grin>

Steve

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