??!! The Dark Ages
posted by on October 12 at 17:35 PM
In trying to figure out exactly how bright the lights are that last July’s City Council- approved strip club Ordinance mandates in all city sex and skin establishments, the only description I could find anywhere was the cryptic “30 lux”. This left me wondering, of course, what the hell is 30 lux? Parking lot lighting? Christmas lighting? Love-makin’ lighting?
I call up the city light department, who give me this very helpful answer: “2-3 lux is one candle.”
I’ve long gotten over the ridiculousness of measuring cars through horse comparisons, but really? Are we still measuring lights based on candles? And does this mean a strip club light entirely with hundreds and hundreds of sensual smelly candles would be acceptable to the moral overlords?
1 lux = moonlight
400 lux = A brightly lit office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux
Dan,
one lux is equal to one lumen per square meter. It's a unit of incident radiation, or in other words, the amount of light falling on an object. One "candela" (standard candle) puts out 4 pi lux total, so, yeah, 30 lux would be about a dozen or so candles lighting up somethng about a meter away. YMMV.
"The average minimum recommended lighting level in offices is on the order of 54 footcandles (~58 decalux)"
so that 30 lux is about a tenth the brightness of an average office.
Beg pardon, I meant Sarah, not Dan
Lux is a metric measure. Candlepower is the old imperial unit.
Sarah you're really picking up this stranger outrage/ reporting thing. Only thing you left out is that you have a call into some important local luminary about this burning question and you'll report back soon. (no puns intended...)
So, does the 30 lux have to be falling on the masturbator, or on the strumpet 4 feet away from the wanker?
30 lux is a lit candle sticking out my ass on a bed covered in rose petals, and Hugh (R-43rd) giving me a nice hummer.
Well that was quite a waste of a read.
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