Never say never

Posted on 13-01-2011 10:21 | By Roger Mabbett

Alien visits ‘not possible' I enjoyed the letter 7/1/11 from Ernest M Izett. In many respects I agree wholeheartedly with the letter, but was surprised at his ‘not possible' statement. Never say never! Some 2000 years ago there were events recorded on this planet that the scribes could not comprehend , now though with the benefit of great strides in technology, the descriptions become clearer and perhaps described flying machinery. We are still a relatively primitive species with a tendency to self destruct, and gravitate to a variety of religion's and are fixated with fossil fuels. What, I wonder will be the subject of letters to the editor in 4011? Go to Google and type in 'famously wrong predictions” "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 'The energy produced by breaking down the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformations of these atoms is talking moonshine.” Lord Ernest Rutherford Roger Mabbett, Tauranga.