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So, HN readers, how would you get a lightbulb in a bottle?

• amalcon 12y ago
  Most obvious options: - Use a large bottle - Use a small lightbulb - Construct the bottle around the lightbulb - Construct the lightbulb inside the bottle - Cut off and replace part of the bottle; this can be done almost seamlessly - There's no technical reason that a lightbulb needs to be made of glass, so we can make a collapsing one, and unfold it inside like a ship-in-a-bottle
• sergiotapia 12y ago
  Please don't give interviewers any ideas.
• hfsktr 12y ago
  Depending on the wording I would assume that the small lights in a fridge or a small flashlight or maybe even Christmas lights count. I think those should fit through many bottles pretty easy.
  • gabriel34 12y ago
    or a big, wide opened bottle
    • tritium 12y ago
      At what point does a bottle become a jar?
      • lwhalen 12y ago
        about the same time a flask becomes a beaker. As Bill Nye has taught a couple generations of kids, you know the flasK has a necK. :-)
• wavefunction 12y ago
  Just grind it into a fine powder and pour into the bottle. Done.
  • Swizec 12y ago
    You. I like you. You're like an evolutionary algorithm satisfying a fitness function. Spirit of the problem completely ignored, but problem bloody well solved.
    • Mchl 12y ago
      (S)He's really more of a wave function
• Someone 12y ago
  I couldn't find a picture (link?), but I would just blow he bulb inside the bottle. Alternatively, use the bottle as the bulb, add filament, pump out the air, and put on the cork, but I'm not sure whether that qualifies as a lightbulb in a bottle.
• praptak 12y ago
  With a pencil and a couple of rubber bands.