Random question time

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:13

How about a thread full of random questions, I've got an odd question that I've just thought of,

At work we have a video camera that watches the street, at the moment I'm looking at the colour monitor and for some reason the brake lights on every single bus flicker as if they are flashing, it only happens on buses, why!?

Jenjey · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:18

How about you get back to work?

Ukadder · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:23

I'm going to guess that the brake light flickers to add extra attention to the bus and the fact it's about to turn. So and extra safty/warning measure if you like.

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:25

They don't flicker if you look at them with the naked eye though

j00ni · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:27

Might it be to do with most buses using LED brakelights nowadays as opposed to conventional bulbs :confused:

/edit: I have no idea why it might, just trying to think how bus' differ from cars'

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:40

good point, I'll have to wait for a BMW to drive past and see if it does the same thing when it brakes lol

Zip · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:41

Sirrel Squirrel said:
good point, I'll have to wait for a BMW to drive past and see if it does the same thing when it brakes lol

Any driven past yet?

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:46

yeh but it didn't brake lol

Zip · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:47

Sirrel Squirrel said:
yeh but it didn't brake lol

I bet it didnt indercate either

What is your job? Shouldnt you be working or is this actually what you do?

Borris · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:48

It could possibly be a strobe effect - TV is 25fps (iirc), and LEDs can be a multitude of frequencies.

Add the effect of striplighting, waving your fingers in front of your face, looking through a slatted fence and a zoetrope, and you wil invariably have a fit and swallow your tongue.

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Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:54

Zip said:
I bet it didnt indercate either

What is your job? Shouldnt you be working or is this actually what you do?

work in the post room but we have the camera on our back gate so we can see the street, so we know who we are letting in

Zip · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:55

Sirrel Squirrel said:
work in the post room but we have the camera on our back gate so we can see the street, so we know who we are letting in

Nice to know your hard at work then

Any BMWs yet?

Supercow · 23 Mar 2006 at 16:55

Why do pubic hair stop growing at a certain length, when "normal hair" would just keep growing ?

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Mar 2006 at 17:06

ooo thats interesting, when the bus brakes, the brake lights don't flicker, it's when they don't brake that they flicker

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Mar 2006 at 17:12

Yeh its gotta be the LED thing, just seen a BMW doing the same thing, problem solved lol

j00ni · 23 Mar 2006 at 17:27

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Yeh its gotta be the LED thing, just seen a BMW doing the same thing, problem solved lol

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Sirrel Squirrel · 27 Mar 2006 at 15:38

I've got a new random question people.

Someone please tell me why we had paper delivered that is a whole 6mm wider in width than standard A4, what is the point in even manufacturing paper that size? it's just stupid because it doesn't fit in the printers lol

Sic · 27 Mar 2006 at 15:40

Sirrel Squirrel said:
I've got a new random question people.

Someone please tell me why we had paper delivered that is a whole 6mm wider in width than standard A4, what is the point in even manufacturing paper that size? it's just stupid because it doesn't fit in the printers lol

hate your job, by any chance?

MR_Punk · 27 Mar 2006 at 15:41

Sirrel Squirrel said:
I've got a new random question people.

Someone please tell me why we had paper delivered that is a whole 6mm wider in width than standard A4, what is the point in even manufacturing paper that size? it's just stupid because it doesn't fit in the printers lol

Thats because of the molepeople, they need it 6mm wider, they nor the edges of to keep there teeth sharp!

+44

Sirrel Squirrel · 27 Mar 2006 at 15:53

Sic said:
hate your job, by any chance?

how can you tell