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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Philosophy dipshit here. How does a flash of light illuminate an object that big and far away?

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 11 points 21 hours ago

I legit thought you were continuing the joke.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Philosophical shithead here!

A 15,000,000,000,000 bulb, of course!

But how could we know that that object illuminated by a 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen bulb is even real? For all you know, that massive object illuminated by a 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen bulb could be a fiction, a simple 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen shadow upon the wall!

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So how many shitheads does it take to change a 15,000,000,000,000 Lumen bulb?

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Just one. See? I just changed it to 15,000,000,000,008 Lumen

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago

Didn't you know? The enlightenment spreads like an ideology. Traditional physics outplayed.