Lan(r)12

GM of crops is basically speeding up natural selection. On our farm, we grow tobacco and hay. The tobacco has been GM to resist blackshank, which is a horrible virus that can literally wipe out your entire crop. we grow GM hay that prevents it from heading out too soon, so as to allow us a more flexible window of cutting and cruing and raking and baling. Most of these people know nothing about farming and how difficult it would be to keep up with the world's demand for food without utilizing science. Im not saying GE is perfectly safe or that we know all about it, but seeing as how its not hurt us yet, it seems fairly safe.

The FDA has opted to regulate tobacco, and as such, the tobacco companies will be required to list alot more of the ingredients within cigarettes. Id like to ask all of the biochemists or chemists out there if the tobacco plant contained any more of those crazy sounding chemicals (like hydrooxytetra-ect ect) than any other organic plant that went through the same curing process and was smoked. Or do almost all plant contain them, its just that not all plants are inhaled like tobacco is? Thanks for the help

Its like twitter, but less extemporaneous and no referencing the third person.

An HBomb exploding into the magnetic anomaly is what happened all along...you cant change the past, and that leak is what causes desmons to have to push the button, which he one day fails to do...causing the crash...the island has a way of course correcting... And Jacob isn't really dead =) Oh, and Juliette is WAAAAYYYY hotter. stupid sqirrels...trying to kill me with their Ayn Rand inspired objectivistic egos...I see you you filthy little elightened monsters

I disagree with those guys. I can empathize...I mean...I live on a farm where all the land around us has been bought by developers and suburbs built. They complain about the tractor noise, they complain about my fields. I can just see one of their trees falling and us having to build a new fence with no help from them at all. Do you use barbed or straight wire? Barbed is a pain in the ass to rebuild. Man, if it were me, I would've rolled every single limb and branch into the road and let them try and figure out how to move it without my loud loader tractor. Im a bit bitter against city people too Good Luck, and sorry you had to go through all that.

Wow Cameron, that is quite a complex molecule for you to be trying to name right off the bat. I agree with the above posters in that you should just pick up a basic organic textbook. And hermanntrude has done an excellent job in describing that molecule for you. Organic textbooks will teach you all about aromatic and aliphatic compounds, benzene rings, isomers, and tons of other stuff you'll wish you've never even heard of when you have to remember IUPAC nomenclature But it's great that you want to learn more. Just pick up a textbook and start reading. Good Luck

Why do you think the earliest scientists even bothered to use *science* in the first place? To EXPLAIN something previously unexplainable. What you are arguing is semantics at best. I certainly see your point as it pertains to modern science, but I do not think Galileo or Copernicus did all the stuff they did to make predictions. I think that their hope was to EXPLAIN something so that they would BE ABLE to make predictions on other matters as they arose.

While your intentions are noble, you are naive in your thought that if we begin total disarmament, other countries would follow. MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction) is the only thing that keeps some countries from blowing us off the face of the Earth. It would be amazing to not have ANY weapons on Earth, but that is a childish, inconceivable dream. I hope you understand.

If you haven't read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand yet, do so this summer. Talk about a crazy book. The Thief of Always by Clive Barker is another good, is somewhat elementary, book. This may sound odd, but you could play Bioshock for the PS3 or Xbox 360. Its an incredibly stark portrayal of what our world could become with regards to both Orwellian and Rand outcomes.

Yeah...but when Im rocking "Rock You Like a Hurricane" on Guitar Hero and singing like a drunken loon...well...thats just fantastic musical entertainment. It can go either way IMO.

Should I just erase my whole comment and leave it you all? But thanks for the correction iNow.

"They" were offered all the rights of a married couple and recognition of their status as being together...but they still want it to be called marriage. So no, its not all about their wanting equal rights.

Sand Tiger sharks' eggs hatch inside the mother and then proceed to kill one another until there's only TWO left standing, one per uterus...and those two are the ones that are birthed. Edit: Thanks Mokele Edit 2: Thanks iNow