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  I was thinking about this. Did people catch moths when they lit the place using candles?  Would a candle control a moth infestation?  Or are they too smart to fly in?  Hmm.
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  Right... because the world was totally dark before that.
  The saying goes, "like a moth to a flame". >
  
  how do you not take that as a joke ? u ok? >
  
  If it's a joke, it's posted in the wrong sub.
  
  No jokes, puns, wordplay...
  In simplest terms, a showerthought is a miniature epiphany that offers a new way of looking at something familiar. >
  
  As right as you are, that’s just what makes it so funny to post here, because it’s A: a funny joke and B: the poster probably doesn’t even know that they just made a joke. >
  
  
  it’s a funny joke 
  
  Did you laugh? >
  
  
  Edison did not invent the light bulb. 
  Moths were still around and attracted to candles and gas lamps, and fires before that. >
  
  Edison didn't invent THE lightbulb, but he did invent A lightbulb, which ended up becoming the predominant lightbulb.
  In a way, I guess you could say he invented the first viable lightbulb for everyday use.
  Not that Edison deserves to have has legacy defended, but at the very least it should be acknowledged what he actually did do. >
  
  Same as how the inventor of one version of the toilets name is John and another versions name is Lewis, and some people call toilets the John or the Lu >
  
  The word loo referring to a toilet comes from the French phrase 'guardez l'eau’, which is what people would shout before emptying their chamber pots out of their window to warn passers by. >
  
  I thought it came from the English for "Look out for my poop" >
  
  Other way round >
  
  He didn't invent the lightbulb, he invented a filament that lasted longer than previous ones. There's a bulb with his filament at a university, that has been on continuously for over a hundred years. Proof that Planned Obsolescence is real. >
  
  He invented more than just a better filament. He also invented the famous screw base/electrical contact that all lightbulbs have. Also an entire manufacturing process along with it.
  Also the light bulb that lasted over a hundred years isn't necessarily proof of planned obsolescence. The bulb you are talking about isn't very bright, probably due to the filament material, or it's thickness, which is why it's lasted so long. >
  
  Yeah, it's also never been turned off. Switching lights on or off usually damages them more than just leaving them on >
  
  Try telling that to my dad >
  
  How is it 2023 and people still don't know that Humphrey Davy and Warren de la Rue beat him to it? >
  
  Because they also believe that Musk inventions all his stuff as well. The pure shame that he stole Tesla’s name just like everything Edison did, makes me angry. >
  
  The fucking irony of it all >
  
  Thomas Alba Edison was a fraud and a hack who did nothing but steal ideas and patent them as his own. >
  
  People be in the comments like akshually Edison didn't invent moths, like we don't know by now, it was his assistant, and he stole the patent. >
  
  "Edison didn't invent moths" another lie by big Edison >
  
  We were always there, hiding in the shadows. We are legion. We are moth. >
  
  No, I think the main confusion for him was the see the lightbulb icon over his head every time he invented something; BEFORE light bulb itself was invented. >
  
  Nope!
  That's why the phrase moth to a flame exists.
  They came to lamps and candles too. >
  
  This is so dumb and obviously not thought out. People used fire for light before electricity hence the phrase “like a moth to a flame” >
  
  That should read "when Edison stole the idea for the lightbulb" >
  
  Eddison did not invent the light bulb. He just took all the credit for it