The image resolution isn’t high enough for a banana to be visible at this scale.
This isn’t the Milky Way (it’s impossible to take a picture from outside our own galaxy), so bananas do not exist there. This means the banana would have to be photoshopped in, in which case you might as well photoshop a map scale.
Nice picture, but I call BS 🤔
Edit: Omg, I forgot to mention the most obvious giveaway. Our supermassive black hole doesn’t have a quasar! Busted!
The theory that the universe was seeded with banana life by an intergalactic precursor race of bananas? It’s possible, but so far there is no hard evidence, and I don’t think OP is claiming to have taken a picture of an alien banana.
They do. Just not the versions we eat. Those are genetic clones and are propagated seedlessly. If you look closely sometimes you can see undeveloped seeds in bananas. They're the little black dots near the center that you see sometimes.
Here is a picture of a land race banana with seeds:
Oh man, I had eaten bananas with seeds but they were tiny like they are in kiwis. I thought the image would be similar to those but instead the seeds are as big as like lentils.
I never fully grasped the true scale of a single galaxy (and then expanded that understanding to the observable universe) until I hopped in my ship in Elite Dangerous and actually set off to cross one. Holy fucking shit, does it really help put it into perspective when you're traveling between vast galactic arms, hopping individual stars 50-70 Ly at a time and trying your damndest not to stretch yourself too thin in fear of running out of scoopable fuel/stars.
If I were an Astronomy teacher, Elite would be my most profound and precious tool.
This reminds me of an Italo Calvino short story about a guy doing backyard telescope observatory space viewing (whew) and he spots someone holding a sign on a distant star stating "I know what you did". The viewer now starts calculating exactly where he would have been at the time including light speed and distance light travels to reach him and all sorts of other calcs until he determines the time in the past and finally realizes "Whoa! He saw that!?".
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starik@lemmy.zip · 66 pts · 248d
A couple problems here:
Nice picture, but I call BS 🤔
Edit: Omg, I forgot to mention the most obvious giveaway. Our supermassive black hole doesn’t have a quasar! Busted!
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 248d
This guy honestly doesn't believe in panbanania.
starik@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 248d
The theory that the universe was seeded with banana life by an intergalactic precursor race of bananas? It’s possible, but so far there is no hard evidence, and I don’t think OP is claiming to have taken a picture of an alien banana.
teft@piefed.social · 17 pts · 248d
This was covered in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called The Chase:
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world · 3 pts · 248d
Bananas don't have seeds.
teft@piefed.social · 11 pts · 248d
They do. Just not the versions we eat. Those are genetic clones and are propagated seedlessly. If you look closely sometimes you can see undeveloped seeds in bananas. They're the little black dots near the center that you see sometimes.
Here is a picture of a land race banana with seeds:
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 247d
Oh man, I had eaten bananas with seeds but they were tiny like they are in kiwis. I thought the image would be similar to those but instead the seeds are as big as like lentils.
Took me by surprise
LeapSecond@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 248d
Of course this isn't our galaxy, that's why OP was so kind to add the missing banana for us
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 248d
Pinch to zoom, brah.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org · 9 pts · 248d
"Computer, enhance!"
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 248d
How do you know bananas don’t exist outside of our galaxy?
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 248d
That second point just isn't true. We have pictures of other galaxies
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 248d
With bananas for scale?
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 248d
"I'll add it in post"
teft@piefed.social · 5 pts · 248d
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/file?fid=52e854d4f6091d782f00167c
starik@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 248d
Cool!
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 248d
Err, they did photoshop a map scale .. the banana ..
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 247d
There could be a teapot in there somewhere though.
starik@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 247d
Let’s assume there is one until someone proves otherwise.
DancingBear@midwest.social · 3 pts · 248d
Natanael@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 247d
Pretty easy to get an Andromeda shot that includes banana for scale
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 246d
I don't believe you, if this isn't our galaxy how did he get the banana in the picture?
Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 247d
Every banana in existence is in this picture.
Sarcasmo@piefed.social · 34 pts · 248d
I like how you put it where (you thought) nobody would look.
Quadhammer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 248d
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 248d
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 248d
Up their butt? /s
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 247d
teft@piefed.social · 18 pts · 248d
ICastFist@programming.dev · 15 pts · 247d
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 247d
It's either very very small or very very large.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 247d
I never fully grasped the true scale of a single galaxy (and then expanded that understanding to the observable universe) until I hopped in my ship in Elite Dangerous and actually set off to cross one. Holy fucking shit, does it really help put it into perspective when you're traveling between vast galactic arms, hopping individual stars 50-70 Ly at a time and trying your damndest not to stretch yourself too thin in fear of running out of scoopable fuel/stars.
If I were an Astronomy teacher, Elite would be my most profound and precious tool.
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 248d
You really should eat that banana before it goes bad. I see spots on it and one area looks soft and bruised.
borf@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 248d
'banana for scale' is 12 years old now
starik@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 248d
Newer than I thought
maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 248d
2005 was 2 decades ago.
vrek@programming.dev · 5 pts · 248d
No... That's not true... That would mean I would be old... I'm not ol oh fuck...
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 248d
I would say mission accomplished, probably generated far more interest than they could've imagined
borf@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 248d
That's what I get for not reading my own link
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world · 1 pts · 248d
And people keep clutching their pearls about skibidi and 6-7. We were way overdue for a new wave of slang.
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 248d
That's peanuts to the Universe!
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 246d
This would be funnier if there were a gigantic banana floating in space
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 248d
You got me. I leaned in to find the banana.
Nima@leminal.space · 3 pts · 248d
I can't seem to find the banana all that easily.
....your mom though. she's clearly visible at this scale. 😎
Solano@piefed.social · 1 pts · 247d
I need a red circle to show me where the banana is.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 246d
There's a red circle the size of Earth in there
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 247d
That would spoil the fun, would it?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 248d
I saw one but don't know if its the one you added.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 247d
This reminds me of an Italo Calvino short story about a guy doing backyard telescope observatory space viewing (whew) and he spots someone holding a sign on a distant star stating "I know what you did". The viewer now starts calculating exactly where he would have been at the time including light speed and distance light travels to reach him and all sorts of other calcs until he determines the time in the past and finally realizes "Whoa! He saw that!?".
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 248d
Hey! Why's that koala smiling?