I agree with your second part but I hardly think we can compare hybridising
with discovering america.

In actual fact when he discovered america it was by accident, they had no
idea that land would be there and they still thought there were risks. No
one realised what would be discovered. We already know how to create
hybrids.

But you are right, possession is an illusion. Money is the driving factor.

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But anyone could have done it really.

You know what. When Colombus had discovered Amerika in 1492 and then
returned to spain in 1493 everybody knew they could have done what he did,
yet they never did!
It is not the question if you can do something, the questions are, did you
do it or did you think of it?
It is always easy to say that you can do something after someone else has
proven it can be done.

I can understand that people who have invested time and money in something
want time to make back their costs. But I thought nature belonged to
everyone, so have can you claim something as yours when possesion is none
exsistened. By the way nature will probably outlive us all, so isn't
posssesion an illusion?

Peter