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[–] starik@lemmy.zip 49 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (8 children)

A couple problems here:

  1. The image resolution isn’t high enough for a banana to be visible at this scale.
  2. 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!

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

so bananas do not exist there

This guy honestly doesn't believe in panbanania.

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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 13 points 14 hours ago

The theory that the universe was seeded with banana life by an intergalactic precursor race of bananas?

This was covered in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called The Chase:

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] teft@piefed.social 5 points 13 hours ago

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:

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The image resolution isn’t high enough for a banana to be visible at this scale.

Pinch to zoom, brah.

[–] GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 8 points 11 hours ago

"Computer, enhance!"

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 19 points 16 hours ago

Of course this isn't our galaxy, that's why OP was so kind to add the missing banana for us

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 points 15 hours ago

How do you know bananas don’t exist outside of our galaxy?

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 5 points 13 hours ago

Err, they did photoshop a map scale .. the banana ..

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

If the universe is infinite, there most certainly are bananas on an infinite number of planets.

(Sorry, I smoke way too much weed, mannnn.”)

[–] teft@piefed.social 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Edit: Omg, I forgot to mention the most obvious giveaway. Our supermassive black hole doesn’t have a quasar! Busted!

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/file?fid=52e854d4f6091d782f00167c

[–] starik@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago
[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That second point just isn't true. We have pictures of other galaxies

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 13 hours ago

"I'll add it in post"