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Just FYI, any headline with the words "Motorized Cyborg Spermbots" in it is a technology gone wrong story in my book.
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I agree.
So you tell people you want a dog or cat on social media, and you will be told more or less that you are worse than Satan if you don't adopt a dog or cat from a shelter that needs a home, because there are already way too many dogs on the planet.
Well, guess what, there are estimated to be NINE TIMES as many people on the planet as dogs.
So next time you hear about someone on social media say they are taking weird fertility treatments to try and have a baby, give them the same treatment and tell them to adopt.
Besides, honestly this is like reverse eugenics, where not only do all the intelligent and responsible people do just about everything possible to prevent people from winning a Darwin award (you have to try really hard these days), but now we are using cybernetics to get people pregnant that don't have breeding capacity? C'mon now... its hilarious how on Discovery Channel and the like you hear about how important wolves and sharks and the like are to the ecosystem, in that they typically hunt the weakest which helps improve the overall health and vitality of the herd as a whole, and no one questions that, but somehow we are absolutely disgusted when applying the same logic we do to all other organisms on the planet to humanity. We're just animals with big heads... same rules apply.
I'm curious how this will be different from IVF.
It says in the article that IVF isn't reliable and that it's costly...but I don't see how this is different.
IVF basically lets the operator choose a sperm, then use a needle to inject it directly into the egg.
This method allows the operator to choose a sperm, then use a needle to inject it directly into the egg.
As the article says, the problem is a bad sperm, but in both cases the operator chooses a visually ok sperm.
Additionally the cost of IVF isn't the material cost, which is just some needles, a microscope, and some cleaning liquids, the cost is the labor to do it and the recovery time from the egg retrieval process, both of which would still exist with this new method?
Anyways...not seeing the benefit.
If you think about it, I don't think the species itself would want those that cannot reproduce to now be able to. Adoption is healthier all around, but this is about wanting a particular product, and this looks like some more expensive science that can and will make it happen.
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