For your consideration, I submit my design for a new ASME standard. The Scaling Banana.

  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    There’s no ‘actual science’ behind the joke. Bananas were used as units of radiation in cases where radiation output was negligible, in a humorous effort to make readers realise that, well, radiation output was negligible. Instead a bunch of undereducated people took it to mean bananas were hazardous radioactive fruit.