Do you know what Musk is and where does it come from?
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True musk is from the musk-gland (scent glands) of a male Tibetan musk deer and is, chemically, muscone, (3-methylcyclopentadecanone).  It isnt part of the urinary system as such but is adjacent to it and, I think, imparts its odour to both faeces and urine. Yes, it contains pheromones which influences males and females of the same spedies smelling it.  A zoologist will tell you more, but what I can tell you is that it is used in many perfumes, (and, traditionally, some drinks in the Middle East).  Nowadays, perfumes often contain synthetic versions of it, of which there are three, which might be preferred by vegetarians or for ethical reasons, although I dont think they kill deer to get it...? Somebody reassure us, please.\nThe synthetic musks I can give you the chemical formulae of also, but I am sure you dont want to know except that it is interesting to see how elaborate these distictive scent molecules are.
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Have you ever heard of Google?
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There are many companies / brands / products whose names\nwere derived from strange circumstances.\n\nYahoo!\nThe word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his\nbook 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive\nin appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders\nJerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they\nconsidered themselves yahoos.\n\nMercedes\nThis was actually the financier's daughter's name.\n\nAdobe\nThis came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind\nthe house of founder John Warnock.\n\nApple Computers\nIt was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three\nmonths late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened\nto call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues\ndidn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock.\n\nCISCO\nIt is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San\nFrancisco.\n\nCompaq\nThis name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ\nto denote a small integral object.\n\nCorel\nThe name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael\nCowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.\n\nGoogle\nThe name started as a joke boasting about the amount of\ninformation the search-engine would be able to search. It was\noriginally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by\n1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate\nstudents Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to\nan angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'\n\nHotmail\nFounder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web\nfrom a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia\ncame up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all\nkinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as\nit included the letters "html" - the programming language used to\nwrite web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with\nselective uppercasing.\n\nHewlett Packard\nBill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether\nthe company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or\nPackard-Hewlett.\n\nIntel\nBob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new\ncompany 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a\nhotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated\nELectronics.\n\nLotus (Notes)\nMitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus\nPosition' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of\nTranscendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.\n\nMicrosoft\nCoined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted\nto MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft,\nthe '-' was removed later on.\n\nMotorola\nFounder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company\nstarted manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio\ncompany at the time was called Victrola.\n\nORACLE\nLarry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project\nfor the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the\nproject was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give\nanswers to all questions or something such). The project was\ndesigned to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The\nproject eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to\nfinish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the\nname Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the\nsame name for the company.\n\nSony\nIt originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and\n'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.\n\nSUN\nFounded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym\nfor Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a\nmicrocomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to\nmanufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a\nUNIX-based OS for the computer.
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Here is what is up with Neil Armstrong:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong\n\nAnd here is a bio for Buzz Aldrin:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin
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Well, he wasn't a lunatic.\n\nWas he a genius?  His Origin of the Species was definitely revolutionary and is relevant to this day.\n\nI suspect that you may be a "strict creationist," however, which poses another question.\n\nAre you a lunatic?  (You aren't a genius.)
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where did u get that from...???
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Johann Wolfgang!\n\nHe discovered furfural, worked on the use of platinum as a catalyst, and invented a lighter, known as Döbereiner's Lamp.\n\n:)
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Mu supposedly existed before Atlantis.   I have heard if you cup your palm (one or the other) like you were going to drink water from it and you see a capital M in the creases, you are an old soul and came from the land of Mu.   Lots of interesting stuff out there about Mu and Atlantis.
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Leo Baekeland\nSetting out to make an insulator, he invented the first true plastic and transformed the world\n1907
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Mine are from earth, don't know where your are from.
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I think I know this. I'm Filipina and a teacher told us that a Fillipino invented the moon buggy. Well, you know the trouble with patents. To us Filipinos, Eduardo San Juan invented the Lunar Rover. But to the others, a different inventor was attributed.
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what r u talking about, r u from mars?
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Tesla coil\nRadio (although there is great debate about that one)\n\nLook him up on Wikipedia
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Mork from Ork... \n\nNano Nano
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Where did u hear this from? (place, person)
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Do a google search with his name!
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Oh my God!  Where did he come from!!!!!^^^^^^^