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 ...
Thanks DUMBGRUNT. Couldn't find the WLIIA clip of Colin Mochrie ("Party Quirks"), which is too bad. :^)
Or gal.......................
That was how they made the 737 Max-8....................
When you think of the odds against your being conceived, the proper response to death has to be gratitude for having lived at all. Think of the innumerable possibilities who never made it.
I’ve been hammered before for mentioning God; I’m sure I’ll be hammered again in the future. Their hammering means nothing to me (kind of like their future).
I am reminded of what my husband said when our son was a baby suffering with colic. He said he really wasn’t ready, and we should have waited. Then I said, “If we had waited we wouldn’t have had THIS son.” “OHHH,” he responded, “well in that case...” Ignorance regarding the facts of reproduction is vast.
Ignorance regarding the facts of reproduction is vast.
And bliss.
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