The Hershey's Times is reporting that the Colored Coating Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-sugar-rate coating for high-definition RED M&Ms. The Colored Coating Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in Tokyo, to stick with a red-color-based scheme but switch to low-sugar-rate coating, came only a week after nine of the world's biggest candy companies agreed to promote a blue-coating-based format for next-generation coating and coloring optical appeal.
The thought of life on other planets is something truly frightening, not because of those life forms but because of humanity itself. We have enough trouble dealing with members of our own species who are of different ethnicity, race, religion or creed. humanity needs to take a long hard look at itself before we can look into space. I fully support the space program, and believe it deserves more funding for manned missions back to the moon, and a mission before 2010 to mars. But are we ready to meet extra terrestrial life? I would say after looking at the last few years of world history that we are not. Mankind as a whole (not the geek population, and perhaps not anyone reading here, as geeks tend to be more open minded than the rest of society (again a stereotype)). is not ready, this is a truly sad statement, as it betrays the limitations of our species, and the blind bigotry with which we view anything different. Keep looking guys, I believe there is life out there, I just hope we're ready for it when we find it, or it finds us...
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The Hershey's Times is reporting that the Colored Coating Forum's Steering Committee voted this week to approve the use of low-sugar-rate coating for high-definition RED M&Ms. The Colored Coating Forum's decision, made at a meeting Tuesday (Feb. 26) in Tokyo, to stick with a red-color-based scheme but switch to low-sugar-rate coating, came only a week after nine of the world's biggest candy companies agreed to promote a blue-coating-based format for next-generation coating and coloring optical appeal.
The thought of life on other planets is something truly frightening, not because of those life forms but because of humanity itself. We have enough trouble dealing with members of our own species who are of different ethnicity, race, religion or creed.
humanity needs to take a long hard look at itself before we can look into space. I fully support the space program, and believe it deserves more funding for manned missions back to the moon, and a mission before 2010 to mars. But are we ready to meet extra terrestrial life? I would say after looking at the last few years of world history that we are not.
Mankind as a whole (not the geek population, and perhaps not anyone reading here, as geeks tend to be more open minded than the rest of society (again a stereotype)). is not ready, this is a truly sad statement, as it betrays the limitations of our species, and the blind bigotry with which we view anything different.
Keep looking guys, I believe there is life out there, I just hope we're ready for it when we find it, or it finds us...