this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
219 points (100.0% liked)

Engineering Memes

1524 readers
1 users here now

About:

Memes about engineering for all disciplines.

Rules:

General Rules:

  1. No hate speech
  2. No harassment, calls to violence
  3. No advertisement

Posts:

  1. Must be a meme/joke/observation/attempt at humour
  2. Must be engineering related (software engineer humour probably better suited for programmer humour communities, though not explicitly banned)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
219
For your consideration, I submit my design for a new ASME standard. The Scaling Banana. (fedia.io)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

For your consideration, I submit my design for a new ASME standard. The Scaling Banana.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.