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UK Scientists to Create Embryo From Two Women
An anonymous reader wrote to mention a BBC story about a UK research group that has been given permission to create a human embryo with genetic material from two women. From the article: "The groundbreaking work aims to prevent mothers from passing certain genetic diseases on to their unborn babies. The researchers are focusing on a group of conditions called mitochondrial myopathy, which include types of muscular dystrophy. These cause muscle weakness and wasting, making it difficult to move normally - some may need to use a wheelchair. At present no treatment for these exists, although things can be done to help with the symptoms. "
I am looking forward to the video. I hope it will be better than cam!
Gradually, men begin to disappear as old ones die and no new ones are born to replace them, until finally Earth is entirely populated by women.
Then some major event happens (like a giant meteor strike) that knocks technology back into the stone age. Without men and without labs, no babies can be created. The race is dying out.
And then, deep in some hidden location, a small cache of men is found in a research facility that was trying to find a way to keep the male half of our species alive. They are the last men on earth, and a planet full of women wants their stud services!
Commando teams of women try to raid the facility so that the men can be captured, mechanically "milked" for their semen, and it can be distributed. But the facility was created with superior defenses. The men inside are safe. Gradually the women realize that the men are in charge of their own bodies.
Each day ovulating women line up outside the facility, naked save for a pair of high heels, and bearing gifts of food and assorted lagers. The men choose the ones they find most attractive, then those must face off in an exotic dancing competition to determine who may enter and be serviced.
I think I've just written the script to a late-night cable movie.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
Sign me up for one!
Table-ized A.I.
Voldemort own's ./?
...even God's DRM is hackable.
And they didn't even need DVD Jon's help!
What hope do Apple/Microsoft/etc have?
Virgin birth, no miracle required.
Can't imagine anybody getting upset over that...
Cress, cress, lovely lovely cress
Careful research by men suggests that the total lack of a brain would occur only if both the women were blondes. In other cases, the mental processes of the fully grown subject would be extremely myserious but nontheless contain elements of apparent intelligence. The ability of the subject to remember random events from long in the past would be particularly evident.
Actually, it's hooking up with people from far-away villages.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Because while you may end up with a superbaby, all the really crappy genes left over will make Danny DeVito.
Hasn't Hollywood taught you anything!
When they came for the communists, I said "He's next door. Take him away. Goddam commies."
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