tmiddled said...colinwill78 said...COL said...
- Because the geometry of the bridles were less refined & needed more line travel to get the required adjustment of kite attitude.
- Because with the pulleys you are effectively pulling the rear lines in at double the rate.
- Because bananas grow directly outwards from the stem but the effect of gravity causes them to droop. You can observe a similar effect with other things that project outwards.
As a former tropical horticulturist i had to pull you UP on this one.
here is how bananas actually grow.
the rest of that post makes sense though
Typically the branch connected to the bananas grow upwards (As opposed to down in quoted pic). After generations, bananas found they grew longer (and thus fitter) if they followed the path of least resistance (due to gravity) and droop. After generations of evolution it was encoded into their genetic code to droop down to grow bigger, be more successful, spread more seed etc. etc. Although you may sometimes see a banana curving downwards, upwards or even sideways, the banana will always (except in the case of genetic mutation) droop
down relative to it's branch :-)
B.S. bananas have always, and still do, grow upwards like this. This picture is not an iscoloated one, it is typical!! The weight of the flower spike tip alone is enought to turn the fruiting body towards the ground.
It evolved because the flowers holding nectar to attract insects and bats etc would simply spill onto the ground if they were to grow downwards. The other reason is that the bananas can opposedly peel themselves through their abcision layer when they are directed this way, falling without skin onto the ground thus enabling better spread of seed through the faeces of scavenging animals.
Please, if you're going to correct me about bananas, at least have some knowledge.
Inferior speculation sounds ridiculous to educated fools like me.
