NO JOKE!! Neighbor just installed a 20ft "Selfie Bauble" on his front lawn. What do I do now??

you know better wrote:

This thread is useless without pics.

Go out there, make your neighbor proud, and take a selfie.

I thought that was half of the troll-bait in the first place, that the pic would only arrive 3 pages in.

But then someone already put an example up like after 8 posts.

How many oversized blinking baubles have YOU designed in your life? You can try to be as ultracrepidarian as you please, or concoct a design suitable for a science fiction novel, but the FACT is that this just isn't going to happen. Period.

Ultimately, design principles still have to follow physical LAWS, at least here on Planet Earth.

If anything, the larger sphere would have LESS room for more internal equipment, because it would need MORE paraphernalia for self-support (again, area vs volume). Using your logic, would a 200ft selfie bauble somehow be 1000x brighter than the original because of some magical cubic scaling law? There's a reason human beings aren't as ginormous as the dinosaurs, you know.

So now you bringing ECONOMICS into it? What does this have to do with how many blinking lights the 30ft bauble will have?? More likely, the LRC poster (OP) is filthy rich and can spend what he likes on it, so cost is irrelevant.

Rayo. wrote:

Can you see the curvature on it? Ground control to major Tom will be along soon to tell you that you have to go to 200miles above sea level to see its curve.

I don't believe in flat baubles.

Just send several of your drones to fly around the bauble, surreptitiously taking pictures of the selfie takers.

Bauble-head wrote:

iamsmart wrote:

This is bad logic (or reading comprehension). Why would you assume equal light density? He didn't say, "get a 30 ft tall one, because that would mean it has three times as many blinking lights". What he said is perfectly valid. You assumed a "therefore".

Clearly the light density should be similar (within 5-10% tolerance), and even between manufacturers it's likely not differing too much, unless of/c he's going to shell out for a bespoke oversized selfie bauble. There's just no-way that simply upping the diameter by a mere 50% would give him thrice as many blinking lights, at least according to the known laws of physics.

I google imaged these things to see what they looked like and the light paterns between them differ quite a bit. Some had far more than 3 times the amount of lights that others the same size had.

asdfadf wrote:

I google imaged these things to see what they looked like and the light paterns between them differ quite a bit. Some had far more than 3 times the amount of lights that others the same size had.

So in other words, with a 30ft bauble, the OP could have SEVEN times (3x+ times 2.25) as many blinking lights as his neighbor?

I believe you need a thousand points of light.

Back woods wrote:

This is why god made guns.

Except for the god part.

So much bauble babble.

Cartarn wrote:

I don't understand the problem. Do they lights keep you on at night? What's the issue?

Probably, YES.

One of my neighbors installed a solar motion led light on the SIDE of his house, with the lens directly facing my house.

Whenever it goes on, usually at 3 to 4am and stays on, it lights up the entire inside of my house, yes through the shades.

It wakes me up and is extremely disturbing to my sleep. WTF am I supposed to do about this?

I asked him to adjust the beam so it shines in his yard, not mine, and he agreed but that was months ago, and now I think

he has no intention of doing anything about it at all. This is extremely rude, annoying, and I would love to have some solution.

Multiplier effect wrote:

asdfadf wrote:

I google imaged these things to see what they looked like and the light paterns between them differ quite a bit. Some had far more than 3 times the amount of lights that others the same size had.

So in other words, with a 30ft bauble, the OP could have SEVEN times (3x+ times 2.25) as many blinking lights as his neighbor?

Yes, but why stop at 30ft? I say go 50! Tear this man to pieces.

asdfadf wrote:

Multiplier effect wrote:

So in other words, with a 30ft bauble, the OP could have SEVEN times (3x+ times 2.25) as many blinking lights as his neighbor?

Yes, but why stop at 30ft? I say go 50! Tear this man to pieces.

There's probably some specific local ordinance about maximal selfie bauble height, but OP didn't give his location, so we can't check for sure.

You're implying that the design of the original sphere is pushing against the laws of physics in terms of light density. That's a lofty assumption.

The poster was told he was wrong because of area growth of a sphere being directly proportional to the number of lights on a given sphere. Maybe that assumptions correct, but maybe it's not. To say that it is definitely the right assumption is wrong. Calling out another poster for faulty logic with such faulty logic was funny to see.

Also, yes, economics has everything to do with how a commercial item is designed.

iamsmart wrote: You're implying that the design of the original sphere is pushing against the laws of physics in terms of light density. That's a lofty assumption.

Personally, I'd expect that the evolutionary phase of oversized selfie baubles (vis-a-vis comparative advantage in terms of light density) has progressed enough that by now there's severely diminishing returns in terms of additional engineering efficiency, unless quantum effects are exploited.

Star wrote:

Can we assume that this is for a Christmas decoration?

I'd be annoyed if it was year round but not for Christmas.

Maybe it's a Kwanzaa Bauble.

Rufus from Watts wrote:

Star wrote:

Can we assume that this is for a Christmas decoration?

I'd be annoyed if it was year round but not for Christmas.

Maybe it's a Kwanzaa Bauble.

Supposedly there's now a supply of used Mao Tse-Tung Baubles available in DC.

I understand this wrote:

Cartarn wrote:

I don't understand the problem. Do they lights keep you on at night? What's the issue?

Probably, YES.

One of my neighbors installed a solar motion led light on the SIDE of his house, with the lens directly facing my house.

Whenever it goes on, usually at 3 to 4am and stays on, it lights up the entire inside of my house, yes through the shades.

It wakes me up and is extremely disturbing to my sleep. WTF am I supposed to do about this?

I asked him to adjust the beam so it shines in his yard, not mine, and he agreed but that was months ago, and now I think

he has no intention of doing anything about it at all. This is extremely rude, annoying, and I would love to have some solution.

Did you not see the whole thing earlier about god making guns????

asdfadf wrote:

Yes, but why stop at 30ft? I say go 50! Tear this man to pieces.

Surely you're familiar with the parable of the tower of bauble?

iamsmart: Also, yes, economics has everything to do with how a commercial item is designed.

And you think I'm the one making assumptions?? Who said the 20ft bauble was commercial?? Can you find one on Big Baubles R Us or something?

No, even w/o confirmation from O.P., it's clearly something custom-built on a specific basis, probably for big shopping malls or the like. And this O.P.'s neighbour decided to annoy everyone by dumping one on his front lawn!