It would be interesting to see whether the thermal effects actuially scaled up in a linear way. There is no good reason to think that they would if existing small lamps are the only experience base. I'm told that getting lamps to work well with differeing envelope shapes is something of an art. . RM > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:22:54 +1300, Jinx > wrote: > > >http://www.giantlavalamp.com/ > > Ok, I've gotta ask: How the he!! do you find this stuff?? :=) I'm sure he just type giantlavalamp into Google :-) -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body