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For your consideration, I submit my design for a new ASME standard. The Scaling Banana.
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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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.
And yet you forgot to add a real banana for scale! /s
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.
@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.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale
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.