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#7 & #8

You're doing it again, you're making an energy statement by using a power context without the corresponding duration.

None of that is helpful. That's like saying in 1 day, my body gives off the full power of the sun, but conspicuously leaving out how long the sun burns to equal the same power output as my body.

It's not a useful frame.

In the same way, how long something had persisted is also uninteresting because it lacks any relevance to the future. Smallpox had existed for at least 3,000 years, and then it stopped existing in 1980.