Can a banana be alive or dead? Is it the kind of thing that can be in one of those states?
If so, when does it die?
– jdl
Excellent. I am going to look up your other post immediately.
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It dies when it gets to MPSIMS, which is where this thread is going.
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Schroedinger’s Banana?
…send lawyers, guns, and money…
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I guess that when photosynethsis stops the plant begins to die (so, I suppose it was alive) and if you put the banana in your ear and listen carefully you will hear I faint cry “Rosebud” that is the moment of death for the banana.
I assume by banana you mean a single fruit.
The banana itself was once part of a living organism: a banana tree. The fruit itself is a housing for the banana seed. If the seed is still able to grow into a tree, the seed is technically alive, but dormant.
So yes, a banana could be alive or dead, in a sense.
They might be selling irradiated bananas now, in which case the seeds would be dead, and the little fruit fly eggs inside the fruit would also be dead. But I don’t know. If your banana hasn’t been irradiated, then the banana seed isn’t dead until it rots or otherwise becomes unrecoverable–by which I mean, unable to grow into a tree.
(And when I use words like that, I pay them extra–or would, if I had anything to pay them with.)
… I could have sworn I heard a dying banana call my name…
Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we’ve been eating Gam-er-aaaa…
WOAH. Fruit fly eggs? Back up there, honcho. How common is it to have fruit fly eggs in bananas? (thank God I have my Runts. Hard candy bananas have NO fly eggs in them at all.)
Yes, but does the irridation kill the flesh eating bacteria that’s on bananas from Costa Rica that a friend of a friend of a friend told me about and to pass the email on to twelve other people I love because there is a conspiracy at the food and drug administration to not tell anyone lest it cause a paniiiic.
<gasp - inhale>
I have to go now I’m a little dizzy.
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Um, has anyone else ever seen a banana seed? I was under the impresson that the seeds have been eradicated by selective breeding and all new banana trees must be started by means of clippings from an existing tree.
Not that it matters to me, because I LOATHE bananas.
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Da Chef
Umm… yeah, I’ve seen banana seeds. Cut a banana up into coins, you’ll see them. That’s what those little black things in the middle are (unless those are the fruit flies…)
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Those are the last vestigial remnants of what were once seeds, Gr8kat. They are no longer germinal.
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JDL, your banana is not dead. This kind of thing happens to guys every once in a while. Don’t worry, it’s not a big deal.
And no, your banana isn’t too small either.
I can’t answer your question, but if you need a new one, you will find a banana tree here.