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Originally Posted by Flint
What is relevant is whether power cycling can cause the instant of failure at which the lightbulb ends its life cycle. You admit that this is the case. You fail to distinguish between long-term and short-term when establishing cause.
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A filament breaking during power cycling is only one of many ways a filament breaks. Nobody said it was the only. Bulbs also flash out while constantly on. Some earlier GOES (weather) satellites failed only in months rather than in 10 years when an 'always on' bulb failed repeatedly.
A failure defined by facts and numbers; voltage and hours of operation. A failure created by events long before its filament breaks.
The point addressed in each relevant post. Those who know only using observation will emotionally assume conclusions. Others who think as an adult will first grasp science or other relevant facts before making any conclusions. Adults know primitive emotions must be controlled, subverted, or manipulated. Because that is what adults do. Decide based upon facts; not upon observation or wild speculation traceable to emotions.
We all learned this even from history. Challenger's O-rings. What caused the failure? Not the O'rings. Those were only symptoms. But again, a conclusion made by thinking like an adult; by not making conclusions only upon observation. That bulb failure during power on is only a symptom; not the reason for failure. A completely different conclusion once one does what all adults must do – first learn facts and numbers.
That emotion is completely different from the emotion of a 16 year old's hug. But again, the common fact. Only an adult who was a child would floor the accelerator because a hug made him feel good.
Why did lynching happen in the old West? Adults who were still children implemented emotionally based justice. An example similar to why seven Challenger astronauts were murdered. Wild speculation due to observation to blame bulb failure on power cycling is also only emotion. Emotion proved seven strangers conspired to rape and murder a woman in Norfolk. Or knew six dead in Ohio deserved to be shot. Or knew a 15 year old murdered and surgically castrated an ex-girlfriend in CO. Or knew murdering 3000 on 11 September was good. Or decided a massacre of Tutsis in Central Africa was necessary.
Where were any of these justified by adults acting like adults? Common factor in every case: decisions were based only in their emotions.
Nobody said emotions do not or should not exist. But any adult who lets emotions make a decision is irresponsible. Emotions are a primitive function that primitive creatures and children use to make decisions. No cop has a luxury to justify actions using their feelings. For the same reason why top management had no right to quash every attempt to save seven Columbia astronauts. All examples of adults acting like children or primitive creatures.
Adults learn what is always required to know something. That was even taught in junior high science.
Anyone can test themself. Did you assume into a fact that power cycling causes bulb failure? Or decide to be informed as an adult does to make a conclusion? A cop must think logically even before pressing a trigger. Must learn to quash unacceptable emotions much faster – to make an adult decision.
UT’s original post is, apparently, an example of what happens when adults think like children. Felony prosecution applies if an adult did not think logically.