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Yeah, I don't know how anyone would think this was "the first test"
It was a demonstration to potential buyers (cops) that it worked.
The makers didn't just strap on their first prototype without knowing it would stop a bullet yet.
This was after they knew it would work.
I think OP is just grabbing posts from "fakehistoryporn" off Reddit and not understanding the difference....
Just another of the (probably hundreds) of shitty meme communities OP mods or posts too. At this point I'm just blocking their whole account.
Mind mentioning where I said this was the first test?
You do realize that's not the kind of material "fakehistoryporn" posts, right? It would be labeled something more like "Experimental worm-removal by shockwave, 1865"
That's what the block button is there for.
It isn't even a test, it is a demonstration.
"Test - a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of something, especially before it is taken into widespread use"
Those are the things they did before the demonstration.
This is quite literally a procedure intended to establish the quality, performance, or reliability of the vest. The quality, performance, and reliability of the vest is likely established to the creators, but not to those observing.
This is a really weird piece of semantics to get caught up on.
No, this is a demonstration of the quality, performance, or reliability of the vest. They had already established the quality, performance, or reliability of the vest when the tested it prior to the demonstration.
I know you are trying to use 'establish' to mean 'establish in the minds of' or something like that, but the whole meme is based on misleading the viewer to believe that this was the step where they made sure it worked. The joke is pretending this is a test and not a demonstration. It wouldn't be nearly as funny if it was an actual test.
In this case the semantics are the entire joke and important.
You have fun with making this argument over demonstrably wrong semantics. I'm done with trying to read off the dictionary to someone with no intent of listening.
If you have to get into semantics to get your point across, you probably fucked up the communication part somewhere.
If someone raises a semantic issue that depends on deliberately ignoring a common usage of the word, is it the issue of the original speaker, or the one raising an issue that deliberately ignores common usage?
Thinking a demonstration is a common sense of test, is wrong in the mind of most people.
So have fun be semantically right, while less and less people will care about what you say because of that.
A demonstration to show efficacy is definitely common usage of test. But believe what you want, it's not like anything would change your mind.
The irony is it's your poor reading comprehension that lead to your misunderstanding.