muelltonneIn a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
Fun fact: this is where the “banana connector” came from. Before copper was discovered, early humans used bananas for all their audio connections. The name stuck, even though wires are made of metal today.
TIL!
It’s fucking bananas that I never knew this.
They are often also used as a unit of measurement of relative scale, especially amongst practitioners of internet science.
ThisLucidLensBanana 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.
Makes sense. They always seem to appear slightly bent. Usually to the left, but not always.