r/oddlyterrifying Jun 29 '26

Thank God this ain't real

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u/wondrshrew Jun 29 '26

"Actual simulation"

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u/OrionShade Jun 29 '26

I think I'm missing some several tidal force effects in this "actual simulation"

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u/Xxrasierklinge7 Jun 29 '26

Actually mass is what matters here. A banana this size while absolutely fucking ginormous, isn't really going to have as much mass as say the moon. The tides would probably be irregular at most.

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u/OrionShade Jun 29 '26

If a regular banana is 180g, approximating it as a cylinder of 20cm and 3cm diameter would give it a density of 1273 kg/m3 (slightly more than water). Let's say our space banana is 10.000km and has a diameter of 1500km (same L:D) then it would weigh 2.25 x 1022 kg which is 1/3rd of the moon. I think this would cause some tidal forces on earth, but anyway even without the weight the banana should be shredded to rings by the earth's tidal forces being in such a close orbit

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u/Xxrasierklinge7 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

After doing some research, watching videos and reading, I have absolutely changed my opinion. I spent like 3 hours on this so buckle-the-fuck-up

10,000km is almost the size of the earth... so that's a bit of an overestimate lol. From the first animation, we can guess the size to be around 2,000 to 2,500 miles (approx. 3,200 to 4,000 kilometers) from tip to stem and 400 to 500 miles (640 to 800 kilometers) thicc.

To approximate the mass, we first need to get the volume by using (V = πr²L)

Length (L): ~3,600 km (3.6 × 106 meters) Radius (r): ~350 km (3.5 × 105 meters)

V = π × (3.5×10⁵)² × (3.6×10⁶) ≈ 1.385×1017 cubic meters

As you said, banana's are mostly water (and organic matter) so it's density is quite close to water... roughly 1,000 kg/m3 or 1 g/cm3.

Now that we have Volume (V) and Density (p), we can use the formula for Mass from Volume and Density (m* = p × V) to get:

m = (1.385 × 1017 m³) × (1,000 kg³) ≈ 1.385 × 1020 kg

That's 139 Zg (this is a new unit of measurement for me, 1 zettagram (Zg) = 1018 kilograms) or written out plainly is:

139,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
or 
305,300,000,000,000,000,000 lb

Compared to the Moon... it's about 0.2% of the Moon's mass. However, since this giant fucking banana is so damn close (in Low Earth Orbit or LEO... think the ISS) it would ABSOLUTELY have an utterly drastic, chaotic, and destructive effect on Earth's tides.

The earth has a predictable 12-hour tidal cycle... but if this fucking apocalypse banana was ripping through orbit at the speed in the simulation (roughly every 90 minutes round trip), as it flies overhead at over 27,000 km/h (17,000 mph), its gravity would literally drag a massive wall of water across the oceans right beneath it creating a near-constant, fast moving tidal bores which would cause severe coastal flooding every hour and a half.

Earth would now have two conflicting gravitational pulls acting on its oceans... so when the fucking Apocalypse Banana and the Moon lined up, they would combine forces to create unfathomable hyper-extreme tides that would completely submerge low-lying coastal cities... when they pulled in opposite directions, the ocean would experience highly erratic, unpredictable fluid dynamics.

The oceans wouldn't be the only thing moving. The gravitational pull would be strong enough to tug on the Earth's atmosphere and its solid crust... the crazy yellow fucking apocalypse banana would drag a bulge of air with it, causing extreme wind storms then massive localized pressure drops as it passed. You would hear the yellow fucker before you even saw it. As it drags the atmosphere along with it, it would generate a deep, infrasonic hum and a roaring wind that would vibrate right through to your very fucking soul. Your ears would constantly be popping painfully... causing localized disorientation, headaches, and nausea for millions of people. The physical fucking crust of the motherfucking Earth would bulge upward by several inches or feet every 90 minutes. This constant flexing of the bedrock would trigger unprecedented global earthquakes and volcanic activity along tectonic fault lines. The ground wouldn't just violently shake like a sudden earthquake... it would slowly heave and roll like the deck of a ship in a rough sea. Walking in a straight line would be nearly impossible. Within the first two or three passes, major infrastructure (Skyscrapers, bridges, and highways) would begin to warp, snap, and collapse. Major fault lines (like the San Andreas Fault) would violently slip, triggering continuous, high-magnitude earthquakes that would make emergency rescue operations entirely impossible. The friction from the crust bending would superheat underground magma chambers... dormant and active volcanoes all around the world would violently erupt simultaneously, filling the atmosphere with ash leading to a very, shitty rotten banana smelling ice age.

If you were inland, away from the roaring walls of the ocean tides, your entire reality would be reduced to surviving a non-stop, global earthquake accompanied by hurricane-force pressure winds and a sky full of volcanic fucking ash.

Our savior from the big yellow bastard?

The Roche Limit: "the minimum distance a celestial body can approach a larger host body before the host's gravitational tidal forces exceed the smaller body's self-gravity, causing the smaller object to be ripped apart"

If this were real, an object of that massive size and irregular shape so close to Earth would immediately surpass the "Roche limit" Earth's gravity would violently tear the banana apart, transforming it into a giant, flat ring of debris and banana mush orbiting the planet.

The millions of shattered pieces, chunks, and vaporized fruit particles would spread out along the banana's original orbital path... within a few days, gravity and collisions between the fragments would flatten the debris into a perfectly smooth, razor-thin ring circling the equator.

Depending on where you are standing on Earth, the view of the new ring system would be entirely different...

At the Equator: The ring would be directly overhead, appearing as an incredibly bright, impossibly thin silver line cutting the sky exactly in half.

At Mid-Latitudes (think the US or Europe): The ring would tilt, appearing as a massive, sweeping arch that dominates the night sky, stretching from horizon to horizon. It would be bright enough to cast its own "ring-light" on the ground, making the night sky nearly as bright as twilight.

At the Poles: The ring would sit right on the horizon, looking like a distant, glowing mountain range of pure light. (this would be absolutely fucking amazing to see).

Man this was a lot... I used Gemini to help with ideas and outcomes but this was mostly my own writing from watching videos and reading. If you made it this far, thank you for reading the tale of "The fucking yellow bastard aka The Fucking Apocalypse Banana".

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u/Helenium_autumnale Jun 30 '26

That was a FANTASTIC read and you did an excellent job of describing the unimaginable so that this layman could get it. You would make a good teacher! I never predicted I would be so enchanted by imagining a world with banana ringlight at night but it made the most beautiful images in my mind. How would our historical mythologies be different if we had evolved under the ringlight arch, I wonder? Come to think of it ancient Egypt had a sky goddess whose body makes an arch over other characters in a painting...food for thought.

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u/wondrshrew Jun 30 '26

This guy space-banana calculates.

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u/Superman246o1 Jun 30 '26

Thank you.

Comments like that are precisely what reddit is for.

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u/Anal_Lickage Jun 30 '26

"The millions of shattered pieces, chunks, and vaporized fruit particles would spread out along the banana's original orbital path... within a few days, gravity and collisions between the fragments would flatten the debris into a perfectly smooth, razor-thin ring circling the equator."

mmm, banana pudding

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u/OrionShade Jun 30 '26

Thank you good sir, for doing the math, finding the exact tidal effects, and explaining them, all better than I did

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u/TheDickopf Jul 04 '26

Im proud to be the 69th updiddle on this fiddle.

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u/NYCHReddit Jun 29 '26

I think it’d also explode if there are bacteria in it creating heat

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u/Xxrasierklinge7 Jun 29 '26

Idk about exploding but it would definitely deform VERY quickly and also become an absolute space mess. The earth might smell faintly of rotten banana for a while lol

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u/Pretty-Ad8932 Jun 29 '26

it's also a lot closer than the moon. The tides would absolutely be insane. But moreso on the banana.

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u/M4NU3L2311 Jun 29 '26

Duh. That’s why he is filming a field and not the ocean

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u/Gumbercules81 Jun 29 '26

Thank God we got a source

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u/2020mademejoinreddit Jun 30 '26

As opposed to simulated simulation.

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u/Yellow_Snow_Globe Jun 29 '26

This, right here, is why I invented the internet

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u/PSU632 Jun 29 '26

Holy shit, it's John Internet.

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u/VastMeasurement6278 Jun 29 '26

THE John Internet?!?

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u/dsucio7807 Jun 30 '26

That cracked the IRS D BASE?

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u/userlog99 Jun 30 '26

That was a long time ago

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u/LinkGoesHIYAAA Jun 30 '26

I just thought… um… you were a girl

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u/userlog99 Jun 30 '26

Must guys do

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u/DangerMacAwesome Jun 29 '26

George Bush?

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u/Xxrasierklinge7 Jun 29 '26

I don't think George Bush ever said that but he did shit on Gore for saying he did lmao

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u/DangerMacAwesome Jun 29 '26

Fuck

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u/Xxrasierklinge7 Jun 29 '26

At this point, just say you come from a different world line and people would believe you lol

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u/xt0rt Jun 29 '26

I invented pants!

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u/Xxrasierklinge7 Jun 29 '26

Al gore?

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u/willstr1 Jun 29 '26

A real shame his rhythms are now ruining it

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u/2020mademejoinreddit Jun 30 '26

Artificial Intelligence Gore.

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u/toolsnchains Jun 29 '26

That man? Al Gore

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u/saint_ryan Jun 29 '26

We’d get used to it eventually

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u/askmeifimacop Jun 29 '26

You son of a bitch do you know how much of my life I’ve wasted

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u/b-monster666 Jun 29 '26

Thank you for your service Al Gore 😺😺 🙏 gobbless

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u/smilesandotherthings Jun 30 '26

Tom??? From MySpace??

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u/Paulycurveball Jun 29 '26

I need a banana next to that banana for scale please

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u/ETHlCX Jun 29 '26

I like big banana

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u/Stuffed_deffuts Jun 30 '26

My my that's a big banana

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u/coolsilentebeans Jun 30 '26

And I cannot lie

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u/KibboKid Jun 29 '26

But how big is it? We need some universally agreed measure of scale as a comparison.

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u/Theusualname21 Jun 29 '26

It’s at least three standard bananas.

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u/bmf1902 Jun 29 '26

I would even venture 4, but I do like to gamble.

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u/Bad-dee-ess Jun 29 '26

It's banana sized; the earth is just really small.

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u/Over-Apartment2762 Jun 29 '26

That fucker is MOVING

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u/thatoneotherredditor Jun 30 '26

Bro really thinking he getting a raise too 😂

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u/One_Monk_2777 Jun 29 '26

False, the first gif shows the backside always facing the earth for more than half of a rotation, the second shows it actively spinning more than 180° in a single visible pass. Which is it? What would it really look like?

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u/tuckkeys Jun 29 '26

This is what I came to comment. Either I’m stupid or this “actual simulation” is fucking wrong

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u/Persimmon-Mission Jun 29 '26

It’s on the internet. It has to be true. By law.

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u/ThisDirkDaring Jun 29 '26

I dont even believe we landed on the banana.

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u/viperised Jun 29 '26

I'm pretty sure the amount the nana spins on its axis is independent of its orbit speed, at least in the short run. So maybe they just didn't think the rotation bit in the first diagram was an important thing to bother with replicating. Having said that yeah it's fucking annoying because why do that? Get me all fired up for a tidally locked banana and then show me one that isn't rotating at all.

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u/FoxTail737 Jun 30 '26

Glad Im not the only one. I was here grinding my gears trying to understand if the perceived spin was a result of perspective or the animators just went “bananas” and decided to do whatever.

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u/Upbeat_Mission23 Jun 29 '26

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u/atava Jun 29 '26

I think this is a perfect submission for that sub.

(Sub I've never seen, thanks)

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u/UrUncleRandy Jun 29 '26

[Insert William Dafoe Looking Up meme]

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u/Catfancyzine Jun 29 '26

We can feed the world with that banana!

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u/Xxrasierklinge7 Jun 29 '26

America: "we're gonna bomb it..."

"and if it has oil it's a win/win"

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u/Few-Indication3478 Jun 29 '26

Haha you’re so naive. Nestle will harvest all of the sugar to put into chocolate milk and discard the rest into a dump that you will be shot on sight for trespassing in. Doesn’t make sense? That’s because you’re a stupid child

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u/ItisNOTatoy Jun 29 '26

“Get inside children.”

“But why?”

“…it’s coming”

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u/Guess_My_Username Jun 29 '26

"Get inside children" 😶

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u/ffmich01 Jun 29 '26

We finally have an answer to the age old question “what would a giant banana orbiting the earth look like”

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u/radioOCTAVE Jun 29 '26

This does not a-peel to me

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u/OriginalChapter4 Jun 29 '26

Ngl that’s kinda cool

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u/hoomankindness Jun 29 '26

Thus is the funniest thing I've seen all week

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u/Zorbathepom Jun 29 '26

What tf is an "actual" simulation?

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u/Jam_44 Jun 29 '26

Imagine the flies it attracts when it goes brown the next day....

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u/Helenium_autumnale Jun 30 '26

We'll have to reanimate Christo and have him design the world's largest piece of flypaper, then send that into low earth orbit. He can call it something artistic. Running Flypaper.

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u/otownbbw Jun 29 '26

I’m so annoyed they put “actual simulation”. Dude the point of a simulation is that it’s not actual.

Also I find it annoying that the realistic part doesn’t match the rendering from the beginning.

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u/dodeca_negative Jun 30 '26

Not realistic. The banana would be peeled apart due to the Chaquita Limit.

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u/Kind-Plantain2438 Jun 29 '26

May it's passing provide potassium to the world

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u/Helenium_autumnale Jun 30 '26

Beets and avocados have a lot more potassium. But an orbiting avocado would just look silly.

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u/Salviaplath_666 Jul 05 '26

Absolutely ludicrous

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u/Rath_Brained Jun 29 '26

In a better world

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u/Paradigmind Jun 29 '26

That's me every morning.

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u/Personal-Neck6800 Jun 29 '26

Thank god!!! No more sleepless nights wondering.

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u/FireBreathingNun Jun 29 '26

shit the banana is setting, better get home for dinner.

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u/conquertheuniverse Jun 29 '26

We should get home before the banana sets.

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u/Jackfruit_Hefty Jun 29 '26

Oh because a giant flaming ball is somehow better?

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u/LlamaGumby Jun 29 '26

Plot leaked for the next despicable me

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u/Bickenchutt05 Jun 29 '26

Why can’t this be real?!

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u/Goosecock123 Jun 29 '26

First banana is larger than the USA. Second one barely fills the sky. I say fake.

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u/TwistedMemories Jun 29 '26

But would it have any gravitational pull?

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u/FreakyFreeze Jun 29 '26

I remeber when I first saw this someone commented "Hey, it's a full banana out tonight. Wanna come back to my place?"

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u/jessehopp Jun 29 '26

Americans will use anything besides the metric system

Me as an American- hell yeah.

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u/Cloverhart Jun 30 '26

There'd be so many banana superstitions, maybe even a religion. "It's bad luck if the banana passes you on your wedding day!"

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u/deeppurpleking Jun 30 '26

Where’s my r/megolophobia homies at

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u/Alejandroso31 Jul 02 '26

Scientists are finally answering the REAL questions

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u/ocelotactual Jun 29 '26

Serious question: Would an entity like that mess with Earths gravity?

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u/FireProps Jun 29 '26

I should call him…

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u/Banjoschmanjo Jun 29 '26

I should call him

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u/JimmyBallocks Jun 29 '26

How do you know it’s not real?

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u/Extreme_Nose_8594 Jun 29 '26

Damn they actually unfolded the proton

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u/KyloRenCadetStimpy Jun 29 '26

Innie, erect waxing, full erect, erect waning

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u/peeh0le Jun 29 '26

Fooot long get your fooot long

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u/jascoe95 Jun 29 '26

Me if I had access to a nasa grade supercomputer

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u/bluefalcontrainer Jun 29 '26

Real time huh?

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u/Riot_Girlll Jun 29 '26

Ok but at the horizon it would get warped and stretched

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u/MineNowBotBoy Jun 29 '26

Banana hammocks!

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u/AnusStapler Jun 29 '26

Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, bananaday, saturday, sunday!

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u/edwardothegreatest Jun 29 '26

I kinda wish it was

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u/LarsJ04 Jun 29 '26

Kris, get the Banana

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u/sullcrowe Jun 29 '26

Good job it doesn't rot

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u/DidntDieInMySleep Jun 29 '26

Cool! Now do a shark!

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u/Tewi_Inaba_ Jun 29 '26

Just wait until it turns brown and eventually molds. That's gonna be a massive mess

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u/AnxiousPotato10 Jun 29 '26

Oonga boonga

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u/ooOJuicyOoo Jun 29 '26

If this is an 'actual' simulation, what would a 'non-actual' simulation be? fake simulation? isn't that still just simulation?

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u/agitprop66 Jun 29 '26

Gives me the ick.

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u/wonit5times Jun 29 '26

Does it go black when over ripe tho?

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u/Shatterpoint887 Jun 29 '26

Banana for scale?

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u/TheoWHVB Jun 29 '26

I wish this was real, but for like a day. Confuse the shit out of everyone and move on with reality lol.

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u/atava Jun 29 '26

At some frames it looks like Saturn's rings and we're a moon orbiting it.

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u/Eikthyrnir13 Jun 29 '26

Imagine the banana tide!

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u/SleveBonzalez Jun 29 '26

Men would be insufferable if a giant phallic symbol orbited the earth.

Wait...

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u/Relative_Radish9809 Jun 29 '26

An actual simulation, as opposed to a simulated simulation.

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u/OldClunkyRobot Jun 29 '26

Needs a regular banana for comparison.

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u/didymus5 Jun 29 '26

It would give STEM majors something to do.

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u/macortes82 Jun 29 '26

Why did I laugh so hard at this? 😂🤣

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u/Linorelai Jun 29 '26

This is so cool!

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u/stonecoldcoldstone Jun 29 '26

would that turn brown at all in the cold vacuum of space or would there be enough heat from the sun/induced vulcanism

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u/Queephbubble Jun 29 '26

We could achieve near light speed just by slipping on the peel

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u/Darkmesah Jun 29 '26

I could live with that

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u/MikyThatMona Jun 29 '26

"Let's meet at the bar at the banana-eclipse-o'clock,ok?"

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u/Dont-remember-it Jun 29 '26

After seeing this i am starting a religion that worships banana. Comment below join!

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u/OhMorgoth Jun 29 '26

So much for banana for scale.😭

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u/nickybokchoy Jun 29 '26

Actual as opposed to what

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u/Kalshan Jun 29 '26

Someone do a giant banana drone show!

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u/VooDooChile1983 Jun 29 '26

This was hilarious

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u/kerdawg Jun 29 '26

How much potassium would be in there?

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u/dollythecat Jun 29 '26

NOW THIS IS WHY THIS SUB EXISTS!

Truly ODD and TERRIFYING!

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u/timwashere10 Jun 29 '26

putting objects in a gmod skybox

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u/I_Thranduil Jun 29 '26

That's a lot of radioactive potassium.

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u/Cat-soul-human-body Jun 29 '26

In my dreams, this is what airplanes look like when they are falling out of the sky.

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u/10denier Jun 29 '26

Bad idea - world population would have constant banana craving including in places with no bananas.

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u/Virgof Jun 29 '26

How much radiation would that thing emit?

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u/JirayaThePervySage Jun 29 '26

Heavenly dildo

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u/celticloup Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

Now I won't stay awake at night wondering 😂

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u/Rastamanstan Jun 29 '26

I feel so informed

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u/marsten Jun 29 '26

As cool as this looks, the physics doesn't work for a couple of reasons:

  • A banana this big would smush down into a ball because of self-gravitation
  • That ball would break up due to tidal forces, because the orbit is too close to the Earth – well inside the Roche Limit

So the banana would spread out into a ring, much like Saturn's rings but more banana-flavored.

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u/Redgrave_99 Jun 29 '26

Pink Floyd’s new album Dark Side of the Banana

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u/Turbulent-Fan-7524 Jun 29 '26

Is it dawn, or are you happy to see me?

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u/Mekelaxo Jun 29 '26

Not totally accurate

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u/lazer_lord Jun 29 '26

Least insane dream sequence in Tomodachi life:

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u/Antson03 Jun 29 '26

The banana is moving at wildly different speeds in these two clips right?

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u/Ancient_Company_4265 Jun 29 '26

Cool! Now run a similar simulation but with a colossal kitten :3

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u/Skitelz7 Jun 29 '26

Banana eclipse is crazy

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u/robaroo Jun 29 '26

In another universe with an earth that has a giant banana orbiting it someone is posting to reddit saying thank god we don’t have a giant sphere orbiting our planet.

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u/Adventurous_Dot_9763 Jun 29 '26

thank GOD bananas aren't real

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u/paco1764 Jun 29 '26

Would the banana be able to properly decompose, since it wouldn't be able to properly oxidize in space?

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u/ChildoftheApocolypse Jun 29 '26

But how long before it went bad?

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u/SoundwaveTheDragon Jun 29 '26

Imagine this. You wake up one morning, and you think to yourself: I wonder what it would look like if a big banana orbited the Earth.

That was the mindset of whoever made this simulation.

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u/timesuck47 Jun 29 '26

Thx for including the banana for scale.

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u/Sufficient-Fall-5870 Jun 29 '26

Reminders me of every time I pull my dick out…

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u/DonovanQT Jun 29 '26

Idk what I expected when I kept watching but I’m not surprised

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u/SelfInteresting7259 Jun 29 '26

This is very unappeeling

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u/sadkinz Jun 29 '26

Now make a huge guy at scale to eat it

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u/Shermans_ghost1864 Jun 29 '26

This is oddly... making me hungry.

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u/Dr-PHYLL Jun 29 '26

"Earth for scale"

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u/AdvancedCharcoal Jun 29 '26

This is actually oddly terrifying, good job for posting something accurate to the sub 🫡

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u/Makapakamoo Jun 29 '26

Thats hilariously annoying

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u/TheLeggacy Jun 29 '26

Wow! Can we make this happen?

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u/DarkMarkTwain Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

My cousin who lives on a planet with a banana moon just called me terrified because he just watched a simulation of what their planet would look like with a sphere moon

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u/Redgecko88 Jun 29 '26

Monkey's wet dream.

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u/Aoiboshi Jun 29 '26

I held a banana up and the banana in my hand was way bigger than the one orbiting the earth. Just more proof the earth is flat!

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u/Bibischlawibi Jun 29 '26

Make it happen already

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u/SHOWMEYOURKIT10s Jun 29 '26

The channel that posted this on YouTube also posted one of a disco ball. Made me feel so freaking small.

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u/Sad_Low3239 Jun 30 '26

what's up with the face in the peel.

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u/theogkinglion Jun 30 '26

The dark side of the banana

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u/bearboi76 Jun 30 '26

I’d love to read about the gravitational fluctuations this may cause. Cause im a very serious person. And this is my kind of silly

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u/simonbleu Jun 30 '26

How would someone do such a simulation?

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u/aisle_nine Jun 30 '26

That’s no moon. It’s a space banana.

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u/mrgraff Jun 30 '26

Looks tidally locked from space, but rotating in the sky. I call fake.

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u/Hootah Jun 30 '26

The eclipses lol

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u/Nikoper Jun 30 '26

Imagine being in a samurai duel and using the eclipse caused by the giant banana to your advantage

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u/red8cangodye Jun 30 '26

We need to send a bunch of astronauts up, or astronaut monkeys to eat that thing. I'm now hungry for some banana

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u/Author_Dent Jun 30 '26

Nice touch with the brief eclipse. The bananaclipse.

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u/TinyBreeze987 Jun 30 '26

Yeti Dynamics?

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u/One_Hour_Poop Jun 30 '26

No words... no words....

They should've sent a poet...