That reminds me; I had this kind of debate with a coworker about rear projection televisions and bulb failure. He asserted that the bulbs failed due to frequent power cycles and they specifically failed during power ON. Of course, I told him that how did he know if they didn't fail when you powered them OFF? The problem here is that the observed state of failure would only be determined at the next attempt at turning it on but you wouldn't know if it failed because of the power on action or if it had already failed. Obviously, the only way to check that particular state was to remove the bulb and test it outside the TV and no one was going to do that. In hindsight, it appears that we were dealing with Schrödinger's bulb.
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Originally Posted by x808drifter
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