Is light just really small bananas bouncing off of everything?
TachyonTele 56 points 2 years ago
seven_phone 11 points 2 years ago
Well that is a very simplified view of nature, in reality they do not always bounce and banana is just a catch all term for any elongated fruit.
ivanafterall 5 points 2 years ago
TIL a cucumber is a banana.
TachyonTele 2 points 2 years ago
SCIENCE!
TachyonTele 1 point 2 years ago
It's also a smoothie.
passiveaggressivesonar 1 point 2 years ago
Only if I take your word for it though right? If I check myself...
shoulderoforion 6 points 2 years ago
sounds right
Iheartcheese 3 points 2 years ago
Why do you think we measure things by light years?
ewigkaiwelo 5 points 2 years ago
Only distance, we measure things in bananas
KnowledgeableNip 2 points 2 years ago
Yes, that is why the banana phone was such a revolutionary invention.
NaibofTabr 8 points 2 years ago
/technicallythetruth
Limonene 54 points 2 years ago
A vitamin is any essential dietary component, which is organic (otherwise it would be a mineral nutrient), and is not a fat, protein/amino acid, or carbohydrate (although carbohydrates are considered non-essential).
Vitamin D is conditionally essential. If you have enough sunlight, your body can synthesize it.
TachyonTele 31 points 2 years ago
How does the body absorb the sun's bananas though? Let's see you weasel your way out of that, science nerd!
TachyonTele 9 points 2 years ago
... oh damn.
metaStatic 2 points 2 years ago
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seven_phone 13 points 2 years ago
I actually can raise my hand for this one, the impact with the skin surface emulsifies the outer banana layer which is then readily absorbed by the pore system. Bananasplitsynthesis is a very well understood process.
TachyonTele 4 points 2 years ago
That's good stuff. Bravo
ewigkaiwelo 4 points 2 years ago
I've heard somewhere that maybe initially vitamin the word comes from "vital amino acids" => vita(l)min(o).. and any substance from a living creature would include amino acids anyway because they have DNA RNA and such
Jesus_666 13 points 2 years ago
Vita + amine, actually. Amines are compounds with an NH₂ group; amino acids are a subset of that.
The person who coined the term thought he had isolated an amine that was effective against a certain disease. What he had actually isolated was neither an amine nor effective against that disease but was actually a different essential compound. (He was looking for what we now know as thiamine but had actually discovered niacin.)
The name "vitamin" stuck around despite the fact that most vitamins aren't amines.
niucllos 9 points 2 years ago
There was actually just a very detailed gastropod episode on this, but the tl;dl version is that a vitamin isn't a specific thing the way a protein or a carbohydrate is. It's anything that the body needs in small amounts that isn't something else
Metostopholes 50 points 2 years ago
Random interesting thing:
Birds also need sunlight to synthesize vitamin D, but their skin is blocked by their feathers. So the chemical precursors to vitamin D are in their "preening oil", a substance they secrete from a gland and rub on their feathers with their beak, an activity called preening. The sunlight hits it and forms the vitamin D, and they end up swallowing enough of it the next time they preen. The preening oil also contributes to the feather's waterproofing and keeps them flexible.
TachyonTele 8 points 2 years ago
That's pretty cool. Random interesting facts are the best.
RememberTheApollo_ 15 points 2 years ago
Same person: “I never eat vegetables.”
affiliate 2 points 2 years ago
i don’t need to know what a vitamin is in order to eat things that have vitamins. to be honest i don’t even really know what calories or protein are, but i probably still eat things that have them. and vegetables too.
DreamlandLividity 10 points 2 years ago
I have to tell you what calories are, because it sounds so incredibly unhinged.
Calorie is a physical unit of energy. For food, calories are measured by removing all water from the food, turning it into powder, enclosing it in a metal container, submerging said container in water, measuring the temperature of the water, then setting the food on fire, which causes it to explode, and measuring the temperature of the water again.
The explosion warms up the water a bit. By measuring how much it warmed up, you can calculate how much energy the food released when it exploded and that is the foods calories.
So calories basically tell you how explosive a food is.
What does that have to do with anything? Who knows.
rickyrigatoni 1 point 2 years ago
One mcdonalds meal has enough calories to level a city block.
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