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Is Your Laptop Cooking Your Testicles?
Velcroman1 writes "Whoever invented the 'laptop' probably didn't worry too much about male reproductive health. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that sitting with a computer on your lap will crank up the temperature of your nether regions, which could affect sperm quality. And there is little you can do about it, according to the authors of a study out today in the journal Fertility and Sterility, short of putting your laptop on a desk. The researchers hooked thermometers to the scrotums of 29 young men (!) who were balancing a laptop on their knees. They found that even with a lap pad under the computer, the men's scrotums overheated quickly. 'Millions and millions of men are using laptops now, especially those in the reproductive age range,' said Dr. Yefim Sheynkin, a urologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who led the new study."
So how many young men who haven't settled down yet are looking at this more as an opportunity than a problem? :)
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or you can get an ipad
Wait till the Catholic church hears about that. :P
This is good news - we don't need any more people on the planet anyways.
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If only there were a way to get rid of those damaged cells and create new ones.
Or maybe we can evolve some way to correct that ridiculous stopgap measure that we have due to sperm's inability to withstand normal body temperatures.
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"You don't understand," said the man at the return counter. "I said I wanted a computer with a compact DISK burner."
Last I heard women on webcam can't get pregnant over the internet.
There was a humorous TED talk on this over 2 years ago following quite a bit of media coverage on the same topic. I believe its also been explored whether internal diaper temperatures may do long term harm the development of the testes.
You'd have to have balls to participate in that experiment.
Someone doesn't have a recliner :)
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or you can keep your lap cooker, i mean laptop off your junk on a flat surface.
Despite what may seem obvious, it wasn't so much the heat coming from the computer that was doing it. When you think about it, the hot parts of a laptop are a good distance away from your scrotum (or, at least, they should be if you're not doin' it wrong). The researchers found that it was the leg position used to keep the computer on the lap - i.e., legs closed together - that was the source of the problem. Keeping your legs together while seated was the strongest cause in the rise in scrotal temperature, because you're surrounding your nads with warm parts of the body and covering surface area that would help remove heat. The researchers found that keeping your legs apart would mitigate the problem, but only a little, because then you'd need a large laptop pad bridging the gap, which covers your nethers right back up. Or you could get a humongously wide laptop.
Somehow, I'm thinking that the future of the human race is not imperiled by laptops making men infertile. At least, not in that way.
good news i say, being a mac owner i couldnt afford to raise a child!
I'd run a paternity test if I were you as I don't think you were the one that put one in the oven.
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire."
"Jack Frost nipping at your knob."
Anyone creative enough to continue . . . ?
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"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire."
"Jack Frost nipping at your knob."
Anyone creative enough to continue . . . ?
"Tiny hipsters with their balls all a'glow, will find it hard to breed tonight!"
This is also why they say that you shouldn't sit in a hot tub before trying to conceive. Although they didn't say anything about trying to conceive while in a hot tub.
Scotsmen have a solution that should also help with the laptop-caused problem.
Very well, let's see how I'd do some everyday activities with an iPad.
First I SSH and VNC into the home server (after paying any requisite app fees) and...now I have to type with an on-screen keyboard? And it's damn impossible to hit anything accurately with capacitive touch unless I zoom right up. Well this sucks, but moving on.
Next I've been screwing around with my N900's OS and it won't boot, so I have to reimage it. Oh wait the iPad doesn't have a USB port, but that's okay because I can't compile the flasher utility on it anyways. But hey it can't do everything right? I mean how many people do that?
Now I want to reflash a router so I have to wire in. Wait, no ethernet port, damn.
Now I need to read some files from a CD. Oh wait.
Next I need to work on some files stored on a USB flash drive. Nope, can't.
Time to transfer my home server's boot drive to another disk, so I plug....fuck.
Now I'll plug the iPad into the TV and watch some shows served from my home server via samba shares. What there's no samba client? Crap. Okay I use my N900 to remotely set up a uPnP/DLNA media server to serve the videos. It's anime watchin' time....and there are no subtitles now T_T
Maybe if I put the files right on the device and play them with a compatible media player (additional fees may apply). Oh wait the iPad's CPU can't handle HD playback, I'd need to transcode the file manually first. Well I don't feel so bad about the lack of Samba now I guess, because I'd run into the same problem.
Okay so now it's time to put some DRM-free ebooks on this thing, reading ebooks is it's specialty right? I'll just Bluetooth transfer it...oh wait can't do that...I need to use iTunes...great...so I fire up the power-guzzling gaming desktop (as I often have to do now that I've replaced my laptop with an iPad) and install it in a VM, and sync the files across. Well that was a lot of work but it's done now.
So now maybe I'll take this ebook with me outside the house. And I have to carry this bigassed thing in addition to my phone that can do everything it can and much more. But I have a lot more screen space...in terms of inches, in pixels not so much...but that makes up for it, right?
No, this sucks, I want my laptop back.
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Oh, aye! There's nothing like walking about in a kilt in 3 degrees celcius to keep the boys nicely aired out and cool. Trust me, I've done it.
On a really windy day your buttocks can get a wee bit chilled -- though your sporran keeps the front of the kilt in place and held down. Though, on a boat deck, I once gave some German tourists more than they bargained for. ;-)
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I don't care because I've had a vasectomy. I know for a fact my sperm motility is 0 as I've had it tested. I can use a laptop, wear boxer briefs or bike shorts, and if it fries the tails of a couple of my swimmers no loss. They can't get past the Ti clips and the air gap. If they can, well then our next kid will be able to walk through the fuckin' walls.
Mind you, my primary form of contraception is never having sex. My wife hates to try (her idea of foreplay is, "I think I'm drunk enough. Go.") and I had to give up after years of nothing but bad sex followed by 30 minutes of her crying afterwards. I'm no good for entertainment, no good for reproduction. What good am I?
I don't want to post any more. I'm sad.
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Too hot OR too cold lowers sperm count, which is why your scrotum shrivels in the cold. It's to keep your testicles at the proper temperature.
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