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  • starik@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzBanana scale
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    4 days ago

    A couple problems here:

    1. The image resolution isn’t high enough for a banana to be visible at this scale.
    2. This isn’t the Milky Way (it’s impossible to take a picture from outside our own galaxy), so bananas do not exist there. This means the banana would have to be photoshopped in, in which case you might as well photoshop a map scale.

    Nice picture, but I call BS 🤔

    Edit: Omg, I forgot to mention the most obvious giveaway. Our supermassive black hole doesn’t have a quasar! Busted!




  • starik@lemmy.ziptoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlbase 10
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    5 days ago

    That alien doesn’t even have a numeral for 4, so it wouldn’t have a word for it either. If it speaks English, uses base 4, and uses the same words we do for numbers, it would sound like this when counting rocks: “One, two, three, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, twenty…”. But when it says “twelve”, it means the same thing as when we say “six”.