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- myempyrean, on 10/23/2008, -1/+41On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the ***** did you get that banana?
- DeskFlyer, on 10/23/2008, -1/+35http://i35.tinypic.com/2evdm4k.gif
- mc1123, on 10/23/2008, -2/+31Donkey Kong 64, anyone?
- shutaro, on 10/23/2008, -7/+34Chlorophyll? Sounds more like BOREophyll!
- architerp, on 10/23/2008, -6/+28Orange you glad I didn't say banana??
- fosterGrin, on 10/23/2008, -2/+18"... a new study has found." They just found that out! Nobody has ever looked at a banana under black light before? Seriously? Nobody ever brought a banana into a night club with the intention of making some sort of banana themed cocktail, and were surprised to see that the banana was blue?
Scientists, always one step ahead of us. - patbon, on 10/23/2008, -2/+16I'd put THAT in my vagina
- nshady, on 10/23/2008, -2/+14Word has it that the scientists will next be investigating blue nuts.
- Auxon, on 10/23/2008, -0/+11It's very common in life for countless people to witness phenomena that are unexplained. Usually, we simply do not recognize any importance to it, or to invest any time researching the reasons for it.
I am sure many people have seen bananas under UV light, but just assumed that's what happens to yellow under UV light - it becomes it's complementary colour - and moved on with their lives and gave it no further thought. Perhaps if one noticed that another yellow object didn't give off blue light under UV, adjacent to a banana which did, they might be inspired to think, "hey, that's weird". It takes a different kind of person to say, "hey, that's weird - I must study this and get a grant to do research into why it happens".
Another example that comes immediately to mind is research that analyzed the effects of cyclonic activity resulting from water mist falling near plastic sheets and how the sheets are drawn inwards towards the water mist. That is, "why do shower curtains often pull inwards towards the spray"? Turns out that it's a complicated physical phenomenon, that gives us a better understanding of water and weather in general. I always thought it was just because of pressure differentials. Not the case apparently, although it may serve as part of the equation. - jkleinrichert, on 10/23/2008, -0/+7pics or it didn't happen
- centran, on 10/23/2008, -0/+6Its techno blue light PB&J time banana! Now all we need is a disco ball... and a baseball bat.
- DeskFlyer, on 10/23/2008, -0/+6Dugg for Mitch Hedberg.
- PabloIV, on 10/23/2008, -0/+5From my understanding of the article these bananas are not special in any particular way, they just shone them under a blacklight. My question is: With all the stoners out there with rooms fully lit by blacklights, how did no one notice this before?
- oda1, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4Don't you judge me.
- askantik, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4Scientists do a lot of useful things... You, sir, are an idiot if you think otherwise.
However, I do agree that it should be obvious by now that black lights make things appear different colors... It's like a middle school science experiment with light filters... The idea itself is interesting, but it's funny that they seem so surprised by it. This is the interesting stuff:
"In contrast to humans, many of the animals that eat bananas can see light in the UV range," he said. "The blue luminescence of the banana fruit could give them a distinct signal that the fruit is ripe." - Bladwor, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4What the *****
- Sornos, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4I think you've found the true story here.
The first scientist goes to a nightclub with a banana. Truly an honorific day for all scientists. - selmer, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4I hope they find a cure. Oh wait, never mind.
*shuffles off to the bathroom* - killeryugi, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4Sarah?
- dinobot, on 10/23/2008, -2/+6They match perfectly a bad case of blue balls
- KingGorilla, on 10/23/2008, -0/+4But you did
- inactive, on 10/23/2008, -0/+3Strap-on role reversal to Merzbow?
- cshuttle, on 10/24/2008, -0/+3"I don't know what a hollaback girl is, all I know is that I want her dead.”
~ Brian Griffin on Gwen Stefani - rodted2, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2:) My banana is happy.
- kultmagick, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2That's awesome! Me and my ex used the word "blue bananas" as a safe word for our...shall I say, more amorous activities.
- rossiohead, on 10/24/2008, -0/+2I think you're allowed to say "vagina" on the internet now.
- cl2yp71c, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2Lanky Kong will be paying those scientists a visit.
- quickgold192, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2blue bananas would surprise just about anybody i would think
- MrsRodted, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2OM NOM NOM NOM NOM *cough, cough* ahem... sorry... what?
- djgargamel, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2Blue bananas surprise regular people too.
- Auxon, on 10/23/2008, -0/+2It only looks blue under UV light. Most animals including humans cannot see UV light. Animals that can see in the UV range, however, don't see bananas as blue, they see it as it is - some unknowable colour for humans of a certain wavelength. The UV light causes the UV wavelength emitted by the banana to be shifted to blue so that we can see it.
Also, humans are sensitive to blue, so obviously it's not an advantage for animals sensitive to blue. - kd1s, on 10/25/2008, -0/+1I got a bunch of UV LED's a while back. I ran EVERYTHING under UV light, my license, money, foods, etc. I found out that bananas do in fact glow blue.
Also found the thread embedded in most U.S. currency that glows either blue or green depending on the denomination of the currency.
And my license, it's got a circle of 13 stars surrounding an anchor with a banner that reads "HOPE" that stands out when exposed to UV light.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2106/2537969636_8c2 ... - MattB123, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1I'll have to remember to get out the old black light next time I'm smokin' banana peels.
- wassim2k, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1bluebanana.com is already registered, although nothing is hosted there.
- knowmad23, on 10/23/2008, -1/+2OK; black lights, lets see who uses black lights? club owners, deviants, deviant club owners. lets see who uses Bananas? Jimbo the chip, athletes, athletic strippers. Now am I supposed to believe that no stripper has incorporated a banana in to her/his routine? or that Austrian scientist don't frequent deviant strip clubs that employ chimpanzees as "host/ess?"
Give me a break, every Raver knows this is well, ...just bananas - bbqsalad, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Not really blue bananas, got me all excited and let me down. Buried
- leerayIG88, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1I hide a banana in my pocket because I might get hungry.
- tallulahvulture, on 10/23/2008, -1/+2my banana is blue
someone make it happy - hfactor, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1RTFA.
- Kakcoo, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Sounds more like an advantage for animals sensitive to blue, rather than UV.
- inactive, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQp7ZDtR0z4
- freshyill, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Does anybody else get pissed when they click to a site, expecting to see a picture of a really cool blue banana, only to find a 230px or so "large" version of it? ***** that. What, is Livescience over its pixel budget?
- CheeseburgerBro, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1I don't think so, Kakcoo.
If you can see ultraviolet, the ripe fruit appears very bright to you (remember, the sun is a giant black light on top of its usual duties as a giant yellow light).
If, instead, you don't perceive the ultraviolet, this glow will be utterly lost to you. Yes, true, it sort of rebounds off a bit of extra blue, but that's pretty much drowned out by the yellow (ripe bananas generally look yellow to me).
If you were very sensitive to blue, you might become paranoid about eating underripe bananas on account of them always seeming a teeny, tiny bit too green for your liking (blue + yellow = green), which would mean that I'd get the extra bananas and you'd get no bananas at all because while you were waiting for them to be so ripe there'd be no imaginable way they'd give you the green banana *****, I'd sneak in and take the whole bunch and share them with my friends but not you -- no, none for you, Kakcoo. - nkstn, on 10/23/2008, -0/+1Adam Sandler in Billy Madison?
- MrsRodted, on 10/27/2008, -0/+1I used a blacklight and it doesn't glow blue, sort of green, but not nearly as vivid as this states
- dpittman42, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Funny, I just tried it and got nothing?
- elighcash, on 10/23/2008, -2/+3Would go nicely with these...
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/consumerist/ ... - MrMayBeBanned, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Especially these: http://rosswarner.com/Vervet2.jpg
- PanicAK, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Pink banana surprises my wife!
- gabbagabba, on 10/24/2008, -0/+1Ok wait. Blue Bananas have been around for ***** ever. This isn't news, they have always existed they're just a rarer banana plant. In fact there are over 100 different variety's of bananas and they come in every colour you can think of.
The only bananas that we get in north America are clones of a european style of banana which are due to go extinct in a few years. The problem is that most central american countries have entire economies based on this specific fruit. The fact that bananas are going to go extict soon is going be detrimental to Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua aswell as many other banana producing countries. Bananas are so cheap because the people who are growing them are being paid so little.
This needs to be changed. We need to start boycotting the United Fruit Company -
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