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brycewi19 (Member Profile)
Your video, Neil deGrasse Tyson - "Do You Believe in God?", has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
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blahpook (Member Profile)
Your video, Neil deGrasse Tyson: a Billion-Year Journey to Stardom, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
Lilithia (Member Profile)
Your video, Exploring the Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson... stoned, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
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Exploring the Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson... stoned
Cosmos On Weed with Neil deGrasse Tyson has been added as a related post - related requested by Grimm.
Cosmos On Weed with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Exploring the Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson... stoned has been added as a related post - related requested by Grimm on that post.
Exploring the Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson... stoned
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Orbitas
I was being sarcastic...
http://videosift.com/video/Neil-deGrasse-Tyson-on-aliens-going-to-hell
really, guys? jesus.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on genetically modified food
Did you read my post you quoted?
(emphasis mine)Let me refresh your memory:
I don't trust corporations at all, but I do have faith in science.
So it's going to happen does that mean we should just give up and not regulate it?
It's amazing how many people here just TRUST Corporations. They're only ONLY interested in the bottom line. If they kill a few hundred people and can sweep it under the rug like GM did, why wouldn't they?
Neil deGrasse Tyson on genetically modified food
What Neil deGrasse Tyson and some of the other scientists/doctors (myself include) have are saying is that the IDEA of GMO's is a great one. The fact that we can engineer our foods to get the traits we want or add additional beneficial traits is an incredibly useful tool. We've already engineered rice that is able to produce vitamin A, which has been a huge help for places with vitamin A deficiencies and we can engineer potatoes to absorb less fats and oils when we fry them, there is also a professor at SUNY-ESF who is using GMO's to try and save the American Chestnut tree from extinction.
GMing is simply another tool in humanity's struggle to survive. First it was finding which foods were safe to eat, then it was breeding organisms within species to make inbred organisms that had the traits we wanted (think cattle, dogs, cats, corn, banana's; some of these things are more inbred than the Hapsburgs), then we starting creating our own hybrids across different species, and now we have GMO's.
However, what I object to is the current corporate use of GMO's to exploit farmers over patents, and breed for traits that people do necessarily need. NdT I'm sure is not advocating for that, but is advocating for the use of transgenic organisms/GMO's to solve some of the world's most pressing issues.
GMO's are probably the most powerful tool we have to curb world hunger, and mal-nutrition, and it could also be the thing that allows humans to venture beyond the solar system. What the Sift seems to be objecting to, and the rest of the "developed" world is the use of GMO's by greedy corporations who care more about turning a profit than solving world problems (there isn't very much money in feeding the needy and hungry). They are the one's making what appear to me more or less useless and potentially dangerous GMO's. Turn your anger away from GMO's specifically and narrow it to the ill use of GMO's by greedy corporations.
Lastly, the argument that "we don't know what they'll do" is for the most part unfounded, there are a decent amount of studies (find them yourself sorry) which show that GMO's in general won't cause harm (though it really depends on what you're trying to make). The same argument was made about the LHC "We don't know what will happen when we turn it on!" but everyone was fine.
Lilithia (Member Profile)
Your video, Neil deGrasse Tyson on genetically modified food, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
Ickster (Member Profile)
Your video, Neil deGrasse Tyson on aliens going to hell, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
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blahpook (Member Profile)
Your video, Why Republicans Don’t Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
jimnms (Member Profile)
Your video, Neil deGrasse Tyson - Humans Are Too Stupid For Aliens, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Humans Are Too Stupid For Aliens
Selfish *promote because I love the perspective he shows about the height of the space station, and it's Neil deGrasse Tyson.
MrFisk (Member Profile)
Your video, Neil deGrasse Tyson Fact Checks 'Gravity', has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.