When I was young in Bulgaria me and my father brought groceries.

The prices of fruit were similar, and they were weighed by the kilogram.

I asked a person selling fruit "If some of these fruits are smaller then it takes more effort to pick them, shouldn't the prices have a larger difference? Apples are big, for example. I then added, but apples take a bit more strength to pluck than strawberries, for example." The last thing I told him is that I can only see one exception, because it's so meticulous. "Blueberries." And also because it takes more time to gather them for the farmer. They have to pick them one by one.

In the 90's in Bulgaria we didn't have machines that could pick fruit, but I thought of something which I told him. What if we make, for example, a hand-held tool used to pick blueberries, like a screwdriver for a bolt. I told him "I think you would hold it in your hand and it would be some kind of claw with netting on it.

The last thing I told him is that "apple trees continue growing. A blueberry shrub stays the same size. What if we cross an apple tree with a pine tree so it grows bigger. I guess the apples would taste different."

We returned home and my father was angry. He looked at me and I walked in the other room. I thought for a bit. I walked back in and said "I understand why we shouldn't cross apples with pines. Because we don't know the health effects and they may make us weaker." I took a pause, and because I have a leader's personality, decided to challenge the views of our previous generations. "What if the new apple makes us stronger?" A pine tree, as I've learned, is not in the same genus as an apple, but... what about crossing it with a birch tree?

-Dimitar Rouynekov

P.S. If you think about it, if we only made one of these hybrid trees, and had a chemist study the apples from it, fed a mouse with those apples and another mouse with regular apples, we would be able to see what the difference is. I used to be a very intelligent person.

When something is newer people don't know how to think because they aren't used to it. I wouldn't say fire if there's no fire.