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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Finish title text explanation. Explain the combinations of fruit Ponytail mentions (and the one in the title text) and discuss the the possible improvement over the two regular fruits. Add wiki links. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | The comic draws a parallel between fruit and atomic or subatomic particles. | |
− | Particle accelerators are used to smash sub-atomic particles together at near-light speeds. | + | Particle accelerators, the most famous of which is the {{w|Large Hadron Collider}}, are used to smash sub-atomic particles together at near-light speeds. Particle collisions can test theories in physics and sometimes have unexpected consequences that force physicists to revise existing theories. For example, colliding two particles at extremely high speeds can result in a release of enough energy to produce massive exotic particles that do not exist under standard conditions. |
− | + | When explaining particle accelerators to the general public, this kind of experiment is sometimes explained with a fruit analogy. For example, the University of Oxford's "[https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/accelerate/resources/sample-scripts/sample-script-1 Accelerate!]" show says "It's like throwing together two apples really really hard and getting three bananas and a mango." In this comic strip, the analogy is taken literally. | |
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− | + | Ponytail for instance mentions a pineapple with apple skin. Pineapples are (almost) impossible to eat without a knife and it will easily become messy even with a knife, and the skin, while high in fiber, can be a danger to the intestinal tract due to its toughness and sharpness, and is commonly considered inedible. But many really like the taste of pineapple, maybe even more than apples. Randall has previously displayed that he finds pineapple tasty but very hard to eat in [[388: Fuck Grapefruit]]. | |
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− | + | Many fruit-based snacks and drinks, such as the yogurt and smoothies mentioned in the title-text but also including juices, candies, etc. will derive flavors from fruit blends. These blends are generally created by mixing the juice or artificial flavorings of two separate, individual fruits, rather than by attempting to create a new fruit by smashing it together. Strawberry and banana are a common combination. Some man-made hybrid fruits have been created via grafting and genetic engineering, but smashing two fruits together at high speeds will usually result in a sticky mess rather than a new fruit hybrid.{{Citation needed}} | |
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− | + | It’s notable that fruiting plants are far more capable of mixing genes across species than animals are. Hence, it is often quite possible to produce a hybrid of two poorly-related fruits by forcing the pollen of one plant to fertilize the ovary of another, or even splicing the bulk of the genes together. Of course, this would be more likely to happen in a high-energy collision of the reproductive parts of the lifeforms, rather than their fruits. | |
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− | + | The title text references the strawberry-banana combo, a popular yogurt flavor as well as two common ingredients in smoothies. The "massive collider" in Europe refers to the {{w|Large Hadron Collider}}, the largest particle accelerator in the world. However the Large Hadron Collider was built to investigate the relationship between matter and forces[http://press.cern/press-releases/1994/12/cern-council-gives-go-ahead-large-hadron-collider], not to search for a strawberry banana{{Citation needed}}. | |
− | + | == Trivia == | |
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+ | This comic was published on the Jewish holiday for the trees, {{w|Tu BiShvat|Tu BiShvat (Hebrew: טו בשבט)}}, on which it is traditional to eat exotic fruits. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |