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[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I get that she's an English major, but how is that an excuse to not know that cameras typically have a flash so they can illuminate the object being photographed?

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

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

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 points 3 days ago

I legit thought you were continuing the joke.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But there are no swastika shaped star bases in that Foto. As we all know the nazis are up there so this is obviously fake.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The reptilians ate all the Nazis

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

With all dew respect that's impossible: the reptiles are the nazis

based reptilians

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I feel like this needs a /s because people might be dumb enough to actually think a flash of some sort was used to capture these images.