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

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    5 days ago

    Bananas are a measurement of radiation…

    So, this ignores the actual science behind a joke and only cares about the meme without understanding it.

    Very apt name, because engineers are the only ones who would know and care about it.

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      @givesomefucks@lemmy.world This is not in reference to the radioactive potassium content of bananas. This is in reference to the internet trope of adding a “banana for scale” to uploaded pictures.

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        Yes …

        The meme is because someone saw something about the banana equivalent dose, making it a standardized unit of measurement.

        The joke was the misuse of the measurement.

        Which I feel like is the same thing I just said, so hopefully it made more sense that way.

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          @givesomefucks@lemmy.world you’re the one missing the joke, this has nothing to do with banana radioactivity. I’m aware that bananas are used as an equivalent dose measurement of radiation. This has nothing to do with that.

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          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.