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[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

In that case, given that a rose would need to have a certain minimum angular size to be recognisably a rose, and it would have to be outside the atmosphere to not be a guarantee of the imminent cessation of my existence, that would have to be a VERY big rose, which doesn't bode well for life on earth if it's approaching at relativistic speeds. Or are you suggesting that it's a galactic - scale rose, and we've got a few million years before it obliterates the Milky Way?

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 14 hours ago

I was thinking we were looking at it through the lens of some bigass telescope

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 2 points 14 hours ago

the only sane answer

[-] FluorineBalloon@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago

"A galactic-scale relativistic rose by any other name would smell just as blue."

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