If this won't cure my SAD, what will?

[fivemack]

This is the 85W-from-socket 425W-incandescent-equivalent-power lightbulb that I bought to see whether it would make me happy.

For size comparisons, that is an Apple smallish keyboard, a real apple and a real kiwifruit. The fruit are normal-sized examples of their ilk, and the bayonet on the lamp is of the standard size.

Comments

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Those of us who enjoy space opera know the factoid about how a "red" sun would look just like a 100W bulb, because tungsten bulbs are actually very red. That says humans can't really tell temperature by looking at a grey emitter. We particularly can't tell whether we're looking at a grey emitter or something that just mimics one in a few wavelengths, which is why fluorescent tubes look white-hot even though they aren't melting the kitchen ceiling.

[htfb.livejournal.com]

That depends on how bad the chromatic aberration of your spectacles is.