Honestly, the whole process of Childbirth is quite disgusting

[Boris Godunov]

I was Caesarian, too! Cut from my mother's womb, so to speak. I like to think this is an indelible part of my relationship with my mother. It certainly explains her disposition.

[Zylka]

Anyone who's touched their mother's vagina should OBVIOUSLY be ashamed of themselves

[Boris Godunov]

Amen! Sick bunch of perverts.

[Dis]

the most disgusting thing known to man. and people videotape this crap. I think I had a thread on that once.

I heard that the female birth canal is the limit to the size of the human brain. But if most women have C-sections, evolution may be able to increase the size of the human brain.

Think of the implications for the future of mankind.

[JCG]

Maybe we should just clone people and skip the messy parts.










....or not.

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Agreed. And so is the start of the process. :yuck:

Well at lease the woman of the world will not have to worried about you hitting on them for sex.

[Zylka]

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA

Originally posted by JCG
Maybe we should just clone people and skip the messy parts.










....or not.

Even as implied joke - what exactly do you think that means? Sticking someone in a "cloning machine" and having their baby pop out?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Amen! Sick bunch of perverts.

Pah. You people are just unnatural

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Joseph
Well at lease the woman of the world will not have to worried about you hitting on them for sex.

Tell them to stop hitting on me, and we'll have consensus.

[JCG]

Re: HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA

Originally posted by Zylka
Even as implied joke - what exactly do you think that means? Sticking someone in a "cloning machine" and having their baby pop out?

Not really. Evidently that would be an oversimplification, the proper cells (or whatever is required) would have to go through an appropiate process and that'd take a reasonable time/cost and so on. It wouldn't be so simple. And of course there's the mental/moral issue of a potentially long chain of people being their own fathers/mothers/etc., which would be rather a weird and touchy subject (hey, the current debates about this kind of thing *are* messy already, even if it's all just talk).....

Some of the other alternatives mentioned in this thread are quite a bit more feasible anyways....

[Dis]

have they solved the aging problem in cloning yet? I believe Dolly the sheep aged prematurely.

Solving the aging problem could be tough. But not impossible. But if you solve the agin problem, you essentually could create something to make humans nearly immortal. So clones would be useless anyways.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Zylka



Hey - so what exactly goes on if the baby and mother aren't sharing blood? I always wondered how some infants come out with HIV if the mother has, yet with this confirmation I wonder how alcohol in the host blood system makes it's way to the infant, as the stuff absorbs like lightning.

Oxygen and carbon dioxide easily diffuse across a thin cellular membrane very much like they do in the lung. Many nutrients and waste products do too, though some require active transport across the membrane.

Some viruses can cross the membrane too. The seperation isn't always perfect, which may explain how Rh - mothers can become sensitized to their Rh + babies blood.

[November Adam]

I witnessed the birth of my son, and while very exciting, it WAS disgustig!

I still have a still image in my brain of all the vivid colours. Especially as the use a huge fluorescent light to make things easier to see.

Well guess the good thing is that the memory of childbirth (the pain portion) fades for a woman or there would be a lot of single kids around.

[Stuie]

C-sections are way more disgusting than vaginal births. They basically cut the woman open, pull out a bunch of organs and pile them out of the way, cut open the uterus and pull the child out. Then they have to sew up the uterus, put the organs back in, and then sew up the incision. And to think the poor woman is awake for the whole thing.

I'd much rather watch the child pop out the proper way.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Dissident
Solving the aging problem could be tough. But not impossible. But if you solve the agin problem, you essentually could create something to make humans nearly immortal. So clones would be useless anyways.

Problem is the aging of the DNA. It's been awhile since I took biology courses, but basically all DNA have bits of info on them, and when they divide some bits are lost at the ends. Since they have plenty of extras it's not a problem until later in life. But when the useful 'bits' start to be lost in cellular division, aging and cancer are the results.