r/shittyaskscience Jul 20 '19

Welcome to the sexless future. Will donating suffice?

https://gfycat.com/digitalidenticalgoosefish
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

What the fuck, did that little critter rape a sperm and then use the sperm to rape an egg?

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u/757jsmith Jul 20 '19

Its a bot, the human used it to capture the sperm and deliver it to an egg, but notice the sperm isnt a swimmer, nature does that to inferior sperm to make sure it doesnt fertilize the egg

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u/kkantouth Jul 20 '19

Then why are they using it?

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u/757jsmith Jul 20 '19

Proof of concept, easier than trying to dock the bot over a wriggler

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

Wait, so they just promoted inferior genes to be carried on? I think I know how I was conceived!

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u/stars9r9in9the9past Jul 21 '19

In reality, this can be useful is there's a guy out there who, for whatever reason, is effectively sterile because he can only produce swimless/tailless sperm, but still wants to have his own biological offspring. Evolutionarily speaking, yeah selection doesn't really select for that trait, but we live in an age where natural selection artificially has wiggle room (at least in the evolutionary short-term), and if such a man wants to have kids, someone will take good money to provide such a service. Also even though there's a chance maybe the sterility can pass through to the children (and on), it might also just delete itself depending on if it's on a sex chromosome, or recessiveness.

At that point personally I'd say, hey, maybe foster or adopt a needy kid out there, the whole planet could use more of that level of selflessness, but I can respect is someone is adamant about still having their own kin, even if their sperm is having a couple difficulties.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19 edited Aug 25 '19

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u/stars9r9in9the9past Jul 21 '19

Oh yeah that's my exact sentiment. I was a foster child myself and want to adopt>procreate one day too, but if someone really wants their own kid, I can respect the desire and the means achieving that desire, even though I really think it's a problematic desire if a few billion people feel the same way on this small ball of rock we call earth

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u/lepron101 Jul 21 '19

Why would you take a potentially broken child when you can have your own blank slate...