Hey! Why's that koala smiling?
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I saw one but don't know if its the one you added.
That's peanuts to the Universe!
You got me. I leaned in to find the banana.
A couple problems here:
- 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!
so bananas do not exist there
This guy honestly doesn't believe in panbanania.
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.
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:
Bananas don't have seeds.
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:
The image resolution isn’t high enough for a banana to be visible at this scale.
Pinch to zoom, brah.
"Computer, enhance!"
Of course this isn't our galaxy, that's why OP was so kind to add the missing banana for us
How do you know bananas don’t exist outside of our galaxy?
Err, they did photoshop a map scale .. the banana ..
If the universe is infinite, there most certainly are bananas on an infinite number of planets.
(Sorry, I smoke way too much weed, mannnn.”)
Edit: Omg, I forgot to mention the most obvious giveaway. Our supermassive black hole doesn’t have a quasar! Busted!
Cool!
That second point just isn't true. We have pictures of other galaxies
With bananas for scale?
"I'll add it in post"
I like how you put it where (you thought) nobody would look.
Up their butt? /s
!I can't find it!<
I can't seem to find the banana all that easily.
....your mom though. she's clearly visible at this scale. 😎
You really should eat that banana before it goes bad. I see spots on it and one area looks soft and bruised.