No moBananas

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Al Globus wrote:
>
> 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.

I agree. I'm on Arthur C. Clarke's side on this. He said "When a
distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible,
he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is
very probably wrong."

I think science is most interesting when it is trying to expand
horizons not restrict them. There'll always be some young whipper-
snapper who comes along and figures out how to do the impossible,
like fly an airplane, propell an object in space, withstand the
awesome forces of trains going faster than 30 m.p.h., or developing
the "Green Revolution" to feed the world's people.

TangoMan