Blog readers will be familiar with the Munger Monster Dorm plan for UC-Santa Barbara.* Apparently, a feature of student dorm rooms in the proposed dorm will be a lava lamp. At least, a mock room set up to show what the inside of the dorm would be like has a lava lamp. Is the assumption is that students will be attracted to the lava lamp in way that insects head for the light, thus overcoming their resistance to the proposed structure? For those unfamiliar with the bubbly lamps, here are some internet facts:
The lava lamp was invented in 1948 by an English accountant named Edward Craven Walker. He was inspired by an egg timer in a pub made of a cocktail shaker filled with alien-looking liquids bubbling on a stove top. It took Craven Walker 15 years to perfect his design.
The lava lamp was originally called an “Astro Globe,” then became known as a Lava Lite (after the company who bought the US manufacturing rights) before being known by the name it is known by now.
- No two lava lamps are the same.
- Craven Walker knew he had “made it” when he heard that Ringo Starr bought one of his lamps.
- The lamps were originally intended to be a luxury item before it was picked up by hippies and the swinging 60s set as a psychedelic accessory.
- The lava lamp made its first TV appearance on Dr. Who in the 1960s.
- Sales of the lava lamp slumped in the late 1970s, but it experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 90s after the Austin Powers movies were released.
- There is a lava lamp on permanent display in the Smithsonian.
- The largest lava lamp ever made is four feet tall and holds ten gallons of lava formula.
- The most expensive lava lamp ever sold was $15,000.
Source: https://www.lampsplus.com/ideas-and-advice/10-fun-facts-about-the-lava-lamp/.
Anyway, you can see the lamp and other aspects of the Munger Monster Dorm in the YouTube video below:
Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtS6iE0XoM8.
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/08/more-on-munger-monster-dorm.html.
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https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/lava%20lamp.mp3
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