It’s either very very small or very very large.
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.
I need a red circle to show me where the banana is.
That would spoil the fun, would it?
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!?”.
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!
Pretty easy to get an Andromeda shot that includes banana for scale
There could be a teapot in there somewhere though.
Let’s assume there is one until someone proves otherwise.
Every banana in existence is in this picture.
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:
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
The image resolution isn’t high enough for a banana to be visible at this scale.
Pinch to zoom, brah.
“Computer, enhance!”
Err, they did photoshop a map scale … the banana …
How do you know bananas don’t exist outside of our galaxy?
Of course this isn’t our galaxy, that’s why OP was so kind to add the missing banana for us
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”
That’s peanuts to the Universe!
You got me. I leaned in to find the banana.
Hey! Why’s that koala smiling?
I saw one but don’t know if its the one you added.
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.
‘banana for scale’ is 12 years old now
Newer than I thought
2005 was 2 decades ago.
Please be interested.
I would say mission accomplished, probably generated far more interest than they could’ve imagined
No… That’s not true… That would mean I would be old… I’m not ol oh fuck…
That’s what I get for not reading my own link
