> Chinese Lumens claims are a generic problem along with current and power listings which
> mathematically and from the Physics involved frequently make no sense at all.
I wonder if this exaggeration is also true for their kilometers.
That might explain some of the boundary issues, in the South China Sea and Tibet.
If the USA space program had gotten it right all of the time we would not have had the Hubble main mirror problem, two lost space shuttles and the loss of a Mars lander due to a English/Metric conversion problem. IIRC the Russian program killed lots too but without the publicity NASA got.
If the USA space program had gotten it right all of the time we would not have had the Hubble main mirror problem, two lost space shuttles and the loss of a Mars lander due to a English/Metric conversion problem.
Agreed. But the issue here isn’t one of honest mistakes that slip through the cracks. It’s one of seemingly willful exaggeration and misrepresentation and it’s not limited to this particular company and it’s not limited to rated lumens output of flashlights. How many threads have we seen here in the last year about batteries whose capacities were grossly overstated by the seller/manufacturer?
And perhaps the part that chaps my hide the most is that these companies are marketing these exaggerations and fraudulent claims to people to know better. Of all the groups on the internet, the members of this forum know that that those numbers are false and moreover we have the tools to prove that they’re false. And yet these companies still pedal their ridiculous claims here.
Buyer beware, indeed.
Anyway, I’m going to step down from my soapbox now…
