Why is the news so depressing?

I try to avoid watching the news because it is so depressing to watch. Always about someone dying, being killed, shot, ran over, accidents, robbings, fires, kidnappings, missing people, storms destroying this or that, recalls b/c making sick or chocking hazards, etc.

It just bothers me. I look at the headlines but I find I go to the Science section on yahoo news because I can learn about new cool things rather than hear about the latest horror or scandal. Is all of life just horrible things? Is it really true that only horror sells?

I get so sad when I hear some of these things...how this world is. I do realize we cannot just have the good news without the bad, but it just seems that it's mostly bad. This is as far as the news on the tv and the headlines. At lease online we can pick and choose a headline to read. As they blah blah on the tv...we can change the channel. But every now and again I do have to watch it and read it...because we all have to remember...that the world isn't a happy place and it can be very scary.

Well...alright I'm going to go back to trying to find the good in the world. Or at least something to learn about.

Am I the only one?

Non-Living Life? Possible?

I found this article last month about non-living life: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html. Scientists are creating it using RNA of chemical fatty cells. And it's working, they are replicating...they could indeed turn into something new. A new life form...unlike what we are used to, unlike what we normally believe life to be! This will be interesting to see...or will it? For now they are not quite at the stage, but...one day they will turn chemical into biological! WOAH! This is an interesting time in science...
Another sharing of information by moi! Enjoy! :)

Yes, I did take the picture...just last weekend at EPCOT in the China area. :)