Sperm: Wiggly, Redundant Seed of Life.
Keruvalia
28-05-2005, 16:48
The average man produces in his lifetime 2,000,000,000,000 (2,000 billion) sperm.
I have used 4 of them.
Does that strike anyone as incredibly wasteful?
The Nazz
28-05-2005, 16:50
The average man produces in his lifetime 2,000,000,000,000 (2,000 billion) sperm.
I have used 4 of them.
Does that strike anyone as incredibly wasteful?
Not as wasteful as me--I used one and then had the pipes disconnected, you might say. They're wriggling around with no place to go anymore.
The Alma Mater
28-05-2005, 16:52
Does that strike anyone as incredibly wasteful?
Intelligent design, dear Keruvalia. Not necessarily efficient design ;)
Jeruselem
28-05-2005, 16:54
Actually no. The sperm have kind of fight their way to the egg. The weakest and least capable don't get there while the strongest get further. It's like survival of the fittest.
Ashmoria
28-05-2005, 16:55
no more so than the seeds put out by oak trees.
Yes. They should be recycled into protein milkshakes.
Actually no. The sperm have kind of fight their way to the egg. The weakest and least capable don't get there while the strongest get further. It's like survival of the fittest.
At least most of the time.
Yes. They should be recycled into protein milkshakes.
Dude, you know how bad that would taste?
...Not that I've ever tasted that before.
Nature tends to produce an insane amount of anything when most of those things will not survive.
It's why salmon and frogs lay hundreds of eggs, even though a small percentage make it to adulthood.
Isn't it kind of creepy to think that your person actually began as TWO foreign organisms - a sperm and an egg?
Dude, you know how bad that would taste?
...Not that I've ever tasted that before.
It's healthy. Helps put hair on your chest.
Dude, you know how bad that would taste?
...Not that I've ever tasted that before.
It doesn't taste that bad at all.
Jeruselem
28-05-2005, 17:03
At least most of the time.
Which makes you wonder about the ones that don't get through.
Which makes you wonder about the ones that don't get through.
Either they are even weaker or they get stuck somewhere in the endometrium.
The Noble Men
28-05-2005, 17:09
It's healthy. Helps put hair on your chest.
I'm going to have to ask my father some very akward questions now...
The Winter Alliance
28-05-2005, 17:12
I'm going to have to ask my father some very akward questions now...
I have a hairy chest and I've never ingested it. Their hypothesis is incorrect.
I'm going to have to ask my father some very akward questions now...
LOL
Check your butt, too. If it's hairy, then he's definitely done something he shouldn't have. *nods*
LOL
Check your butt, too. If it's hairy, then he's definitely done something he shouldn't have. *nods*
What about those of us who haven't, but have hair there anyway!?
Boodicka
28-05-2005, 17:14
Not as wasteful as me--I used one and then had the pipes disconnected, you might say. They're wriggling around with no place to go anymore.
Those of you with penises tend to "reabsorb" your wrigglers inside your testes, so I wouldn't worry about it...you're just recycling the protein instead of squirting it into some orifice/hand/masturbation aid.
All the ova I will ever produce are inside me at birth. I heard recently that a woman who smokes/is exposed to chemicals during pregnancy affects not only her growing foetus, but (if that foetus is XX) all of the ova within the developing ovaries of that foetus. Grandchildren can be affected along the maternal line. Pretty scary stuff.
I have a hairy chest
Post pics! K, thanks!
No, really. Please?
The Winter Alliance
28-05-2005, 17:25
Post pics! K, thanks!
No, really. Please?
No.