MIT genuises with lightbulb

[maxjair]

the comments here are as funny as the video. It will always amaze me how ppl would feel smarter by picking in other ppl mistakes, the best part is that they also screw up in their “solutions”

[federer4life]

So HOW do you light a big light bulb? The last student said "If I do it with a little light bulb...." then he showed how he lit it. But since he said "IF", I'm assuming he couldn't light up the big bulb.

[OpenAgoraphobic]

1:50 he does it but its a different bulb the battery isnt enough to light THAT bulb

[ToothpickMcBrainy]

See, this is classic. Completing a circuit and all that, yadda yadda yadda. But these people are probably just parsing the question wrong-a bulb and "wire" probably registers to them as a bulb and SOME wire.

Still quite funny though.

[ToothpickMcBrainy]

@ToothpickMcBrainy

Especially after they get the single wire and STILL don't get it.

[plijuh123]

You only need money to graduate from Harvard or any other institute. Funny how dedicated poor people that have to keep financial aid or study at a cheap university are smarter and overall more educated.

[Riotdrone]

@plijuh123

yes

[Ninvus2]

Only one wire?

[shinzon0]

I correctly mounted electrical contacts onto a socket at the age of 5...

[ChrisHeumann]

They asked "can you light a lightbulb with a battery and a wire?" and the answer is actually "No". It can't be done. For it to work, one needs a battery, a wire, and a lightbulb.  Or so says my 8th grade daughter.

[kshirley58]

@ChrisHeumann it is possible, but these guys arnt too bright. first you need at least one wire (probably about a foot long or so), a lightbulb, and an appropriate battery (voltage according to the lightbulb in order to produce a high enough power for the bulb to be bright--these were all provided. the circuit must be complete AND grounded also, one girl here only had it grounded.

[jinxxedlikeshit]

I knew how it worked at the age of 7. I don't get how anyone can get tricked by one wire, you don't even need a wire if you're using a battery where the poles are close enough to complete the circuit, like a 9v battery.

[lilkev098]

LOL thats affirmative action for ya, lets in all the typical idiots. Sure u might be tricked by the one wire, but how can u conclude that the battery is dead X.X epic fail.

[CitizenofDystopia]

@lilkev098 This is a joke, right? The black guy was the only one that could do it and the girl never said the battery must be dead.

[lilkev098]

@CitizenofDystopia Are you even a uni student? I have known quite a few pure genius male asians get outright rejected from the top 6 US unis. They could have been the top of the class, but the unis let in others who are probably contributing to the dropout rate. Heck I'm in one of the most selective uni faculty in Canada (ya doesn't mean much), but at least we don't discriminate in the admissions, and guess what I see in my classes.

[Coffeevaccine]

Lol. My Prof. in Electronics showed us this video today. Not to make fun of it, but to show that knowing the theory alone does not make anyone an engineer.

By the way, that dude at 0:30 is such a retard. Keeps repeating " a battery", " a wire". Such a display of arrogance. Wanna throw up.

[Lumpio2]

Wow. Well done, MIT students. High school kids should be able to answer this perfectly. "You can't build a closed circuit with just one wire" orz