In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator
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Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?
  • JeeBaiChowEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    They are often also used as a unit of measurement of relative scale, especially amongst practitioners of internet science.

    • ThisLucidLensEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Banana physicist here.

      This is actually due to a really interesting phenomenon called banana dilation. Although they may appear different sizes to the eye, bananas distort local spacetime such that they are all physically identical dimensions. This makes them a perfect and consistent measure of size.

      • JeeBaiChowEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Makes sense. They always seem to appear slightly bent. Usually to the left, but not always.