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Mathematicians reveal secret to human sperm's swimming prowess
Psy.Org ^ | 19 Mar 2019

Posted on 03/20/2019 3:16:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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I'm glad mine won the race because I would not want to be someone else.
1 posted on 03/20/2019 3:16:52 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

SPEED=1/distance works.


2 posted on 03/20/2019 3:31:58 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Hey, that was hurtful.... apologize to the guy you never got to be.


3 posted on 03/20/2019 3:32:45 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

That “someone else” could be dead.


4 posted on 03/20/2019 3:50:27 AM PDT by Does so (Is Nanzi controlled by a Mexican Cartel?...)
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...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.


5 posted on 03/20/2019 4:02:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: Does so

That “someone else” could be dead.

Oh my!

This is leading to the infinite universes/possibilities direction.
That makes my brain hurt.


6 posted on 03/20/2019 4:05:30 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Psalm 139:14
We are fearfully and wonderfully made.


7 posted on 03/20/2019 4:31:56 AM PDT by Maranatha7757
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“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.


8 posted on 03/20/2019 4:39:48 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Maranatha7757

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


9 posted on 03/20/2019 4:45:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: I cannot think of a name

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.


10 posted on 03/20/2019 4:49:19 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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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.


11 posted on 03/20/2019 4:52:05 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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If the best swimmer often produces a stupid human, I wonder what the bad swimmers would produce.

And why do great sperm swimmers sometimes produce people who are terrible swimmers? ;-)

12 posted on 03/20/2019 5:00:23 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: DUMBGRUNT; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Corky Ramirez; CopperTop; ...

Sperm count?

Well how many sperm should I have?


13 posted on 03/20/2019 5:01:23 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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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?


14 posted on 03/20/2019 5:31:13 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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I wonder what the bad swimmers would produce

Ted Kennedy?


15 posted on 03/20/2019 5:33:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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...


16 posted on 03/20/2019 5:33:39 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

Careful, all the atheists on FR are going to hammer you for mentioning God.


17 posted on 03/20/2019 5:34:19 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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With no central nervous system

"Well, I gotta have a central nervous system."


18 posted on 03/20/2019 5:35:12 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Check the Mesabi Iron Range after a thunderstorm; maybe you could get a new hard drive.


19 posted on 03/20/2019 5:50:06 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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“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?


20 posted on 03/20/2019 5:50:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is the best project/program/portfolio manager in the world!!!!)
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