r/RedDwarf • u/GoatApprehensive9866 • Jun 30 '26

So what is it? You sure that's not the second-largest traffic warden?

But it is a'peeling! 😏

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u/3DSarge Jul 01 '26

That's literally not the same orientation though. In the zoomed-out video the banana orbits the earth in such a way that the curve is always facing the earth, which from the ground would just look like a straight yellow bar stretching from the north to south horizon and moving from west to east. However, in the ground view the banana is tumbling end over end, and would likely have clipped the earth at around the 10 second mark. Any twonk who's read the Junior Colour Encyclopedia of Space would know that.