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    23 months ago

    I disagree. They ARE pretty. Just not as pretty as a rose or a sunset and yeah best used as industrial tooling.

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      33 months ago

      I would rate them above roses personally. Below a good sunset though; nearly nothing manmade beats those

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        23 months ago

        Good sunsets are frequently man-made too, the most beautiful red glowing ones own their look to dust - air pollution.

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        3 months ago

        Pedantry because funny: Diamonds and Roses aren’t man made either. On a more serious note, some things aren’t beautiful because they last but because they are fleeting.

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          Any rose you buy at a florist or other store is the product of centuries of selective breeding by horticulturists. So they are, in that sense, man-made. And now they’re getting into genetic modification.

          In fact, if you bought someone a dozen wild roses, they might be disappointed.

          Really, virtually anything plant-related you can buy in a store is a human creation at least in part. We don’t think of flowers we tend to grow and buy as domesticated, but they are.