▲ 1616 ▼ In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 7 months ago by muelltonne@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 366 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 18 points 7 months ago (3 children) TIL! It’s fucking bananas that I never knew this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) They are often also used as a unit of measurement of relative scale, especially amongst practitioners of internet science. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Makes sense. They always seem to appear slightly bent. Usually to the left, but not always. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children) They are often also used as a unit of measurement of relative scale, especially amongst practitioners of internet science. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Makes sense. They always seem to appear slightly bent. Usually to the left, but not always. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Makes sense. They always seem to appear slightly bent. Usually to the left, but not always. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Makes sense. They always seem to appear slightly bent. Usually to the left, but not always. permalink fedilink source parent