Go bananas! Banana pandemic Do you love bananas?
The first time I tried a banana was when I was 15. Now I know that bananas are grass. How often do we pay attention to grass? Only when it’s taller than we are. And when the grass dries up from the heat and stops giving us moisture and coolness under our feet, that's when we pay attention to it. Oh, what a beautiful dirty red color!
I like bananas! So let's go bananas with @ElenaBlagos: What could be simpler then a banana? When Benjamin Spock wrote in a book on parenting: mash a banana with a fork into a child’s porridge, I laughed my head off, because in the USSR bananas were a rare thing to come by, they were actually hunted for and were more expensive than crab meat or black caviar.
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Tropical race 4,
Recently, I was horrified to learn that bananas may very soon disappear from the face of the earth.
It turned out that they are susceptible to infection by some very aggressive Tropical Race 4 fish.
A new disease cannot be destroyed with chemicals, and contaminated soils need to be taken out of circulation for at least 30-40 years. The disease spreads easily, the infection can be carried on the soles of shoes. Among plants, the disease also spreads rapidly.
According to experts, the Tropical Race 4 (TR4) plant disease began to spread actively in Asia and Australia in the 20th century, and in 2019 TR4 was found in South America, the main producer and supplier of bananas in the world.
The fungus mainly affects the most popular Cavendish banana variety, which accounts for 95% of world consumption. Soil disease spreads rapidly due to the transfer of the same genes by plants to each other.
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If the fungus is found, then experts advise destroying all plants in a large area and observing strict quarantine. Even a small clump of infected soil on a farmer’s boots can spread the spores. They are also dispersed by floods or by animals.
In addition to diseases, it turns out that bananas have other misfortunes. To find seeds for planting a new crop, farmers mash tons of bananas by hand. And only in one out of a thousand bananas can they find seeds.
Banana, as a collection of different meanings, which inspired many great artists, and has now become a symbol of the new world.
Previously, it took decades and centuries for a work to become famous, but now everything is different. The great Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan buys 3 bananas for 30 cents, sticks them to the wall with silver duct tape and in an instant, the bananas are sold for 120 thousand dollars. Information about this spreads around the world exactly at the speed of signal transmission over a fiber optic cable.
In addition to all the references, the story that pleases the public most of all is that a banana can be taken and resold with such incredible speed. And this very idea, this very fact has a great chance to survive.
Contemporary Art has a low level of preservation all the time. When we are dealing with a classic work of art, even when it is destroyed, we can identify it as a work of art by the smallest pieces. Which can not be said about contemporary art, especially crypto art.
So, my collection of JSB (just Stupid Bananas) crypto bananas based on OpenSea is a collection of an endangered species that children may not see in 30 years.