• starik@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    The theory that the universe was seeded with banana life by an intergalactic precursor race of bananas? It’s possible, but so far there is no hard evidence, and I don’t think OP is claiming to have taken a picture of an alien banana.

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      The theory that the universe was seeded with banana life by an intergalactic precursor race of bananas?

      This was covered in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called The Chase:

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        They do. Just not the versions we eat. Those are genetic clones and are propagated seedlessly. If you look closely sometimes you can see undeveloped seeds in bananas. They’re the little black dots near the center that you see sometimes.

        Here is a picture of a land race banana with seeds: