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underpants

(182,958 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:36 AM Apr 20

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If you ever wondered what a giant banana 🍌 orbiting Earth 🌍 would look like, wonder no more.

The comments reflect both my amazement and lack of understanding “Why?”

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If you ever wondered what a giant banana 🍌 orbiting Earth 🌍 would look like, wonder no more. (Original Post) underpants Apr 20 OP

Thanks! I've always wondered what that would look like. Ocelot II Apr 20 #1

I don't know why I think this is so funny..... underpants Apr 20 #4

I wonder about all kinds of things. 3catwoman3 Apr 20 #2

Well, now you don't have to underpants Apr 20 #3

Any sign True Dough Apr 20 #5

There's a Great Pumpkin sign in your post. underpants Apr 20 #8

I learn something every day on DU.. Permanut Apr 20 #6

😆 underpants Apr 20 #7

Very cool, I'm entertained more than I should be but.... MiHale Apr 20 #9

Sounds like an outgrowth of Geostationary Banana Over Texas ... eppur_se_muova Apr 20 #10

Yes, We Have No Geostationary Bananas underpants Apr 20 #14

Holy orbiting banana! Niagara Apr 20 #11

Time flies an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana 🍌 underpants Apr 20 #15

I find the concept unappeeling. nt Wicked Blue Apr 20 #12

👍🤩 underpants Apr 20 #13

The ozone has a potassium deficiency apparently Blue Owl Apr 20 #16

I hope it doesn't split. underpants Apr 20 #21

Ty underpants. Now I can sleep at night knowing this. debm55 Apr 20 #17

Another thing to cross off my Google search list underpants Apr 20 #20

Did Elon Musk launch it into space just to prove it could be done...but only by him and his extra billions. usaf-vet Apr 20 #18

🧠💨 underpants Apr 20 #19

No it wouldn't Cartoonist Apr 20 #22

You'd better be careful... Think. Again. Apr 20 #23

Ocelot II

(115,922 posts)

1. Thanks! I've always wondered what that would look like.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:38 AM

Apr 20

underpants

(182,958 posts)

4. I don't know why I think this is so funny.....

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:42 AM

Apr 20

Oh….yeah I do.
😳🌲

3catwoman3

(24,079 posts)

2. I wonder about all kinds of things.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:38 AM

Apr 20

This hasn't been one of them.

underpants

(182,958 posts)

3. Well, now you don't have to

Reply to 3catwoman3 (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:41 AM

Apr 20

True Dough

(17,348 posts)

5. Any sign

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:43 AM

Apr 20

of a great pumpkin?

underpants

(182,958 posts)

8. There's a Great Pumpkin sign in your post.

Reply to True Dough (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:47 AM

Apr 20

I mean, there is.

Permanut

(5,667 posts)

6. I learn something every day on DU..

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:43 AM

Apr 20

This isn't one of them.

underpants

(182,958 posts)

7. 😆

Reply to Permanut (Reply #6)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:46 AM

Apr 20

MiHale

(9,789 posts)

9. Very cool, I'm entertained more than I should be but....

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:52 AM

Apr 20

Frozen bananas don’t look so yellow. Lack of oxygen could be a factor. 🤪

eppur_se_muova

(36,307 posts)

10. Sounds like an outgrowth of Geostationary Banana Over Texas ...

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:53 AM

Apr 20

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=geostationary+banana+over+texas#ip=1

Unfortunately their home page appears to be retired ...
https://www.geostationarybananaovertexas.com/

underpants

(182,958 posts)

14. Yes, We Have No Geostationary Bananas

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #10)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:11 PM

Apr 20

I must’ve missed that one

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/yes-we-have-no-geostationary-bananas-mark-steyn/

Niagara

(7,701 posts)

11. Holy orbiting banana!

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 11:59 AM

Apr 20

It's all fun and games until it turns brown and attracts fruit flies.

underpants

(182,958 posts)

15. Time flies an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana 🍌

Reply to Niagara (Reply #11)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:12 PM

Apr 20

- Groucho Marx

Wicked Blue

(5,861 posts)

12. I find the concept unappeeling. nt

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:02 PM

Apr 20

underpants

(182,958 posts)

13. 👍🤩

Reply to Wicked Blue (Reply #12)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:09 PM

Apr 20

Blue Owl

(50,532 posts)

16. The ozone has a potassium deficiency apparently

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:12 PM

Apr 20

underpants

(182,958 posts)

21. I hope it doesn't split.

Reply to Blue Owl (Reply #16)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:43 PM

Apr 20

debm55

(25,606 posts)

17. Ty underpants. Now I can sleep at night knowing this.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:18 PM

Apr 20

underpants

(182,958 posts)

20. Another thing to cross off my Google search list

Reply to debm55 (Reply #17)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:40 PM

Apr 20

✅

usaf-vet

(6,227 posts)

18. Did Elon Musk launch it into space just to prove it could be done...but only by him and his extra billions.

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:28 PM

Apr 20

Just think how big a helping of "Banana Fosters" could be made on re-entry.

Pretty cool..huh? Elon Musk and "Banana Fosters" are all in the same post.

underpants

(182,958 posts)

19. 🧠💨

Reply to usaf-vet (Reply #18)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:37 PM

Apr 20

🤯

Cartoonist

(7,323 posts)

22. No it wouldn't

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 12:53 PM

Apr 20

The banana in this video has too much motion. An object of that size caught in Earth's gravitational pull would not behave that way.

Think. Again.

(8,576 posts)

23. You'd better be careful...

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Sat Apr 20, 2024, 01:47 PM

Apr 20

...Galileo was put in prison for suggesting the Earth circled the Banana.

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