No moBananas

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 07:17 PM, Michael wrote:

> Bananas are a main source of food for a fifth of the world's
> population .
> Yet the banana is likely to be extinct in the next 20 years.

Do you have any idea how many predictions like this have been dead
wrong? For examples, stick to what has actually happened, not just
someone's prediction. It's much more convincing.

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~150 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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position of any organization I'm familiar with.