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Old 12-21-2008, 03:34 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cfg83 View Post
I thought the "joke" was that the light bulb was very close to the shape of a tear-drop and could be used to demonstrate really good aerodynamics.
Ya, that's why I didn't get it originally either... an incandescent is shaped aerodynamically, but a CFL is usually shaped like a coil of glass tubes... which doesn't seem to be all that aero... (granted, there are some CFLs that are bulb shaped, but those are less common)
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