Posted on 03/20/2019 3:16:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Only around 15 out of the 55 million sperm that embark on the treacherous journey to fertilise the egg are able to make it through the reproductive tract where cervical mucus, which is one hundred times thicker than water, forms part of one of nature's toughest selective challenges.
...With no central nervous system to make decisions about how to move and whenwhat controls sperms movement remains a scientific mystery
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
SPEED=1/distance works.
Hey, that was hurtful.... apologize to the guy you never got to be.
That “someone else” could be dead.
...apologize to the guy you never got to be.
Well, at the very least, I would then be a ‘nice guy’, because they always finish last.
That someone else could be dead.
Oh my!
This is leading to the infinite universes/possibilities direction.
That makes my brain hurt.
Psalm 139:14
We are fearfully and wonderfully made.
“While the tails of sea urchin and human sperm share the same bendy inner core, the study suggests that the tails of sperm in mammals may have evolved a reinforcing outer layer to give them the exact amount of extra strength and stability required to overcome the thick fluid barrier they come up against in internal fertilisation.”
“have evolved” - remember all this complexity is just a ‘happy accident.’ Just give it a few million tries and this tiny detail could have evolved itself. Why at that rate, evolving to a complete human would only take a few billion, trillion tries.
And if you believe that, you are delusional.
Truly.
I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14
A friend tells me, it is the same as placing all the parts for a 747 in a huge box, shaking well and expecting a finished aircraft.
Keeping in mind that semiconductors are primarily composed of silicon, which is sand, it’s more akin to expecting a lightening strike on a beach to produce a 6-core microprocessor.
And why do great sperm swimmers sometimes produce people who are terrible swimmers? ;-)
Sperm count?
Well how many sperm should I have?
akin to expecting a lightening strike on a beach to produce a 6-core microprocessor.
I’m using a dual Xeon quad cores workstation.
If I set it outside in a storm, could I upgrade it?
(on the cheap)
Maybe I should disconnect the surge suppressor?
I wonder what the bad swimmers would produce
Ted Kennedy?
Nice guys finish last, that’s what they say.
and nice guys, are better off ending up that way.
the game of love is rough, and when the going gets to be too tough,
the tough get going and throw the nice guys away.
a song i wrote in college after a nice guy break up...
Careful, all the atheists on FR are going to hammer you for mentioning God.
"Well, I gotta have a central nervous system."
Check the Mesabi Iron Range after a thunderstorm; maybe you could get a new hard drive.
“Only around 15 out of the 55 million sperm that embark on the treacherous journey to fertilise the egg are able to make it through the reproductive tract where cervical mucus, which is one hundred times thicker than water, forms part of one of nature’s toughest selective challenges.”
So one wins and the other 14 get participation trophies?
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