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I'm no doctor but was taught in school that there was a possibility for females to reproduce without men. I'm willing to explain the theory to anyone interested in my non-scientific english.
But we'd certainly miss ya guys.
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But we'd certainly miss ya guys.Thanks, ladymoon ! (sniff) We'd miss you, too. (especially since we'd be the ones who were missing!  ) The Only WO'N!
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Dr. Bill, I was somewhat taken aback on following your link to find a word of the day site, the word being pogonip, with a quote by Lily Munster.
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I remember having read a very funny poem purporting to be a conversation between Lilith and Eve giving a Lilith's eye view of Adam. Does anyone else know it? Able to quote?
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Reminds me of the story who walked into a pharmacy and asked the elderly, mean-as-a-snake woman behind the counter, "Give me a dozen condoms, miss."
She replied "Here they are, and don't you 'miss' me, young man!"
He said, "OK, better make it thirteen."
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Dear TEd: At a summer resort pharmacy a bashful young man started to leave the store when he saw that both store people were women. But one of them intercepted him before he could get to door, sensing his problem. She assured him that he need not feel embarrassed about making his needs known.
He hesitated and then blurted: "What can you give me for a persistent erection?"
With no hesitation, she replied: "Would you accept a half interest in the store?"
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I'm no doctor but was taught in school that there was a possibility for females to reproduce without men. I'm willing to explain the theory to anyone interested in my non-scientific english.
But we'd certainly miss ya guys.
For another view of such a world, read "Five to Twelve" by Edmund Cooper ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I'm no doctor but was taught in school that there was a possibility for females to reproduce without men.
I have to register a healthy dose of scepticism as to the accuracy of that teaching, well-intentioned though it might have been at the time.
To date it's not possible. Some less complicated organisms (frogs, for example) have had their eggs "tricked" into dividing without being fertilized, but no human ova to my knowledge (sub-encyclopedic, I confess).
Theoretically it's not impossible but only in the sense that it's impossible to disprove anything, "really." The whole cloning scientific community is working on figuring out how to do it; Dolly-the-sheep was a breakthrough but needed vast technical support at every step.
No one knows what the product of such a process would be, of course; any of so many things could go awry along the way...and from there we slip back into the realm of speculative fiction, where the idea has been dealt with at length in the past and where it must remain for a while longer.
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Interestingly, All Things Considered just this evening had a segment on attempts at cloning human embryos, with a very brief discussion of moral, scientific, and political ramifications of the practice, and a comparison of the analogous evolution of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) twenty or so years ago. Can't give you a URL yet because the show is still airing but by tomorrow May 7 it ought to be available through www.npr.org/programs (or even after 10PM EDT tonight).
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I think the key word in the whole theory is possible. To date it hasn't been done, but that hardly makes it not possible. Isn't possibility the whole driving force behind scientific research. Not discovering again what has been done but reaching out into the realm of "fiction", sailing around the world, flying to the moon, cloning sheep.
It would be completely a scientific process to be sure. ( I will also give you that I was taught at one of the most liberal colleges around, teaching such a thing does have a huge liberal bent.)
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