Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Details of lab-made bird flu won't be revealed opionon

i recently read an article called "Details of lab-made bird flu won't me revealed" on yahoo.com. this aricle is about how the government asked scitetist to reaserch the probability of the mutation of the H5N1 flu virus and becoming a even bigger danger for people. scientists were surprised to see how easy the virus mutated and became easer to be transmitted from person to person.  then the government decided that they did not want the public to know about the activity of the scientist in fear that there would be bio attacts and some people might infect other people on purpose. even thouh they created this study to help people with the virus if it ever mutats they fear that it would be used for terrorist attacts in stead of its original purpose. I am a little upset that the government would not want us citizen to know about the new information. but t the same time i understand the logic behind their decision. but it was not as effective as they probably though it would be since there is an aricle out about it. i am also concerned that with the little bit of info that  is out about what the government is doing will be noticed and that maby someone will decide to hi-jac the fasilitly and create a whole new bio war. also i wonder if our government might use this new information to attack other contries if we have diputes. we might become the terrorist we are so afraid of. i also wonder weither they plan to see how this virus will effect humans. since there were probably no testing on humans in the reaserch how would they know accuratly or not that this strain of the H5N1 virus.



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Monday, December 19, 2011

teen preganacy

Mr. Petro just recently recently asked a question to me and my fellow class mates. it sparked alot of controversy within my class one halph was on one side and the other the other.the question was about weither we believed that teens should be able to buy birth controle pills over the counter or should their be an age restriction. I think that females should be able to buy the birth controle pills over the counter. People always talk and scorn kids for getting pregnat. But how can they scorn them when they are not giving them the proper protection for them not to get pregnant. recently a law was passed that the age that you can buy the "Pan B" pill was incresed to 18 from 17 years of age. Even though the plan be pill is safe for all ages this law was passed. as we all know teens have sex. also we all know that most teens do not want to have a baby when they are teens. i know most adults know these two fact but it seems that they pay no attention to it. They want to think that is is everyone else kid and not theirs. when the truth is it probably is their child. they pass laws like this that does not help the problem it actually makes it a bit worse. Now the kids are doing it and they have no back up plan. or no way to prevent them from getting pregnant. 

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

another earth found

nasa says they have found another earth like planet that is some 600 hundred light years away. they found it beacause earth size planets whose orbital planes are aligned such that they periodically pass in front of their stars result in tiny dimmings of their host star’s light dimmings. so they watch suns until the light dimms and then they know that that star has a planet that orbits it. this undated handout artist rendering provided by nasa shows kepler 22 b a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun star nasa has found the new planet outside our solar system that's eerily similar to earth in alot of ways. it has a star could almost be a twin of our sun. It likely has water and land. i think it is kind of cool and at the same time scary that we are looking at a 600 year old picture of that planet. the planet may have people or intelligent life on it by now and we would know if it has it now until 600 years from now and then it would be even more civilized than it was 600 years ago when we first found it. maby there are other life forms on this planet that already knew that we were there. maby they could teach us alot about  ourselves. maby they have created some kind of technology that does travel faster than light. they might have already figured out some new aspects to our science that would shatter all of the things we thought we knew. this discovery supports the growing belief that we live in a universe crowded with life. carnegies alan boss says. also nasa says that this planet is 2.4 times larger than our own. so if there is intelligent life forms on that planet they are bigger than us.