No on Prop 8

Usually my blogs are about an article that I have recently read, and my opinions on them. But this blog post is going to be different. Since the elections are coming up, I figured I would share my opinions on a matter that personally has been getting to me. Prop 8. Should gay marriage be legal or not.

To me this seems like a power trip. The people who want gay marriage to be banned are getting a kick out of taking away peoples fundamental rights. Some people I have talked to have said, "Being gay is a disease, they can't help it." Well if thats the case, then people should be able to call in sick for being gay; and they can't. If being gay is a disease, why don't they have a pill for it? Because it's not. Since when is a lifestyle choice a disease, or to be shunned upon, that's like saying a painter can't take pictures, it just doesn't make sense to me.

Everybody says that love is sacred, some people never find it. So why are people punishing the people who find love? Love is love, it shouldn't matter whether its two girls, two guys, or a man and woman. If you are lucky enough to find love, so be it.

No on prop 8. Don't make life a power trip, don't keep us stuck in recession.

Genetically-Engineered Tomatoes

Scientists have genetically-engineered tomatoes, and made them purple. No, it's not a color twist on the usual red fruit. It's actually supposed to be healthier for people's welfare. Scientists have taken genes from the snapdragon flower that creates a compound called anthocyanin, which is what makes the tomatoes purple. The compound has been proven to increase the protection against certain cancers and diseases.

So the question is, should we trust it? Genetically-engineered food has always been subject for debate. Whether it's good for us, or bad. In my opinion it seems like a good thing, when scientists have reached the point where they can help out nature and make us healthier; I think that's huge. Isn't it the goal of most people to live longer? I mean that's why there's medicine and hospitals in general. If people didn't want to live longer, they would accept whatever they had. In that sense, I believe that this is a good thing.

But at the same time, who are we to mess with nature? I mean we do that enough, don't we; with our buildings and power plants? Things have been the way they've been, well forever. Plants grow and we eat them. That's just the way things used to go, but not anymore. Now there's miracle grow and things of that sort. Genetically-engineering our food is just as bad as growing life in a test tube.

So what do you think? Good or bad, let me know you're opinions.

Monochrome Dreaming

I have just read a blog talking about people dreaming in black and white. It talks about how people who grew up watching black and white television, and people who grew up before color tv's tend to dream in black and white. One woman even said that she was born in the sixties, and when she dreams of things that happen in the sixties the dreams were black and white; while when she dreamed of things that happened in the present they were in full color.

This article really made me think about the human brain, and wonder how our dreams will look 50 years from now. With technology changing and influencing as it has been so rapidly, what are we to expect? What will dreams be like for the kids who grew up in our time, compared to those growing up in 2014? Will technology be so different from it is now that people will be dreaming in new qualities? Will people begin to dream in HD? All of these questions that used to seem just plain ridiculous, now make a little more sense.

So what kind of things should we expect, or maybe even start imagining? Will our dreams be like real life someday? Imagine the experience that would be, to be able to d

ream and not know if it's reality or not. Tell me what you think, do you think that it's possible?

link to original blog:http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/10/monochrome_dreaming.html

Has The Fountain Of Youth Really Been Found?

An article in Discovery.com states that scientists have effectively slowed the aging process in livers of mice. A test was done where two groups of mice, one group normal, and then another with which livers were cleaned of harmful chemicals, as well as adding extra cells to make up for loss of them over time. These chemicals are correspondent with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, as well as other conditions relating to age. When the test was over, the modified group's livers preformed as if they were young mice, while the other group's livers were clearly running down. All of these mice were the same age, so it is quite obvious that they have made progress. Scientists say that the process is not limited to livers, and they are eager to test it on other organs. They are also working on finding a way to make a pill that turns on the receptors in organs to make them more active, this would make the process work a lot more efficiently.

If they could successfully preform this process on humans, the average life span could be increased dramatically. Things such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's would not be extinct, of course, but the effects of these conditions would take longer to show in patients. This is so revolutionary, for centuries people have been looking for a way to live longer, and there was never a clear answer. Yes, it is proven that eating right and exercising leads to a healthier , longer life; but who would have thought that cleaning your organs would lead to a longer life too?

The question now is, how many people would use it? Would the patients who get this have to go in every year to get a check up, every couple months, or would it be a lifelong thing? Would they have to take a pill every single day, just for a few more years? These are the questions we should be thinking about. At what point does a few more years on your life lead to constant pill taking, or doctor bills? In my opinion, a lot of people will flock to this, most people want to live as long as they can, and they don't care how they do it. Whether is exercise, or taking a pill. People will continue to try to make life longer.