the livefeed for the Livermore Centennial Bulb has been down for at least a week and i am getting very worried
i even sent an email to the webmaster but have not received a response
if anyone in california could go check on the bulb and report back i would greatly appreciate it
EDIT: The website is outdated. Find the webcam footage [here]. (http://bulbcam.cityofpleasantonca.gov)
The Centennial Bulb is a light bulb famous for burning continuously since 1901, over a century, hence the name. It's installed in a Livermore fire station and is a small tourist attraction for the area. Images of the bulb are uploaded to its website every 30 seconds. At least, until now.
DUN DUN DUUN!
If the bulb died that would be the second(?) divergence from the timeline of 17776 Football, the first being JUICE's launch delay from 2022 to 2023, and we can maybe pass that one off as him being an unreliable narrator. Oh, and it'll be sad for other reasons too I guess.
But don't be worried. The camera taking photos of the bulb is dead right now, but the bulb should be fine. It's probably happened a bunch of times. Battery dead, power outage, fuse blown, camera reached obsolescence (how ironic), et cetera. There are no news stories about the bulb from the past few months and the website's inactive so I assume everything's fine. So while we wait for a kind soul to drive over there and take a photo (and notify them the camera stopped working) let's find out when the final image was posted so we can look at it.
The Wayback Machine takes many snapshots a day for this website, so we can see exactly when the image feed stopped working. Let's make a list of relevant snapshots:
- 2:49pm snapshot with image reading 7:12am
- 4:06pm snapshot with image reading 8:30am
- 6:28pm snapshot missing the image
Wayback Machine timestamps are UTC, while the images are dated to about 7h37m earlier, matching Livermore's PDT timezone for August (UTC-7). I assume the 37m extra is due to Wayback being slow.
Therefore, the camera footage stopped three months ago on August 19, 2022. Specifically, the camera broke sometime between 8:30am (final image) and 10:52am (missing image) PDT.
That image above is the final image from the website until the camera gets fixed.
