{"id":3626,"date":"2009-12-28T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/bananeidolia-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T20:41:23","slug":"bananeidolia-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/bananeidolia-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Bananeidolia | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/jesus-image-appears-on-banana-peel\/story-e6freuy9-1225812846613\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3318e_bananeidolia.jpg\" alt=\"bananeidolia\" width=\"206\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9442\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Quick! Someone call <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/10\/02\/slandering-darwin\/\">Ray Comfort<\/a>!<\/p><p>Yup. It&rsquo;s Jesus in a banana peel. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/jesus-image-appears-on-banana-peel\/story-e6freuy9-1225812846613\">The article<\/a> has all the usual nonsense, so I&rsquo;ll spare you the details. But my favorite part is where the banana owner says, \"It definitely wasn&rsquo;t that way when I bought it from [the store]&hellip;. \".<\/p><p>&lt;sarcasm&gt;Yes, because once you buy a banana and bring it home, it stays exactly the same forever.&lt;\/sarcasm&gt;<\/p><p>Sigh. I&rsquo;ve had bananas go bad <em>on the way<\/em> home from the store. Bananas are the least stable fruit ever. I bet ten minutes after that picture was taken it looked more like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/12\/18\/terroreidolia\/\">the pareidolia in the kitchen sink<\/a>.<\/p><p>I suppose there will never come a day when the mainstream media will have an article with a picture like this with the headline, \"Random pattern in object appears to look vaguely face-like; owner makes no claim of divinity\". That would certainly be news to me!<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the polyphenoloxidase to Mauro Mello, Jr.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DVC-SQIQ4CGlooWLRz7P3L8AAeQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3318e_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/DVC-SQIQ4CGlooWLRz7P3L8AAeQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3318e_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3318e_NxhiAznpmTY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/3318e_GeJs4-emau4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick! Someone call Ray Comfort!Yup. It&rsquo;s Jesus in a banana peel. The article has all the usual nonsense, so I&rsquo;ll spare you the details. But my favorite part is where the banana owner says, \"It definitely wasn&rsquo;t that way when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/bananeidolia-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}