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It's okay to be wrong sometimes DV, it's character building. Admit your shame and let's all move on.

i'm wrong all the time

i lost a bet about why carrots are orange last night
 
i'm wrong all the time

i lost a bet about why carrots are orange last night

beta-carotene: a tetraterpene with the 8 isoprene units comprising a linear chain with a ring at each end. The characteristic absorption properties are due to the linear part of the molecule being poly-unsaturated, with alternate single and double bonds.
 
beta-carotene: a tetraterpene with the 8 isoprene units comprising a linear chain with a ring at each end. The characteristic absorption properties are due to the linear part of the molecule being poly-unsaturated, with alternate single and double bonds.

But why do they make you see better in the dark?:102:
 
beta-carotene: a tetraterpene with the 8 isoprene units comprising a linear chain with a ring at each end. The characteristic absorption properties are due to the linear part of the molecule being poly-unsaturated, with alternate single and double bonds.

Aha, so that's why Bugs Bunny doesn't wear glasses
 
beta-carotene: a tetraterpene with the 8 isoprene units comprising a linear chain with a ring at each end. The characteristic absorption properties are due to the linear part of the molecule being poly-unsaturated, with alternate single and double bonds.

I bet you missed the alternate single and double bonds part DV, everyone misses that bit out (apart from Hector obviously :))
 
I think that's a phallusy ... it was a story leaked during the war to conceal from the Germans the fact we had invented radar.

I know.:icon_wink
 
it was more why they were bred to be orange...

as a tribute to William Of Orange

acutally, i think i may be right and that IS bullshit

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html

A tale, probably apocryphal, has it that the orange carrot was bred in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century to honour William of Orange. Though the orange carrot does date from the Netherlands in the sixteenth century, it is unlikely that honouring William of Orange had anything to do with it!
 
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