A chap at work posed an odd question today; what would happen to the Human Race if we all suddenly (he didn’t suggest how) became sterile overnight? I guess we wouldn’t technically become extinct until the last specimen had died, which could take a century or more, but what would happen in the meantime? How long would it take societies to break down because there were no longer enough people to maintain infrastructures, ie energy, police, hospitals, food production, armed forces, etc? Would people be prepared to work at all if there were no children to support or to inherit the fruits of their labour, or would they just grab whatever they could for themselves and just sit it out to the end?
By: AlanR - 8th September 2011 at 17:37
It would eventually become the survival of the fittest. Technology counting for
nothing, as it wouldn’t work.
By: Flying_Pencil - 8th September 2011 at 16:24
Sex without consequence? :confused:
no need for a condom any more. 😀
By: tornado64 - 6th September 2011 at 22:53
Would scientists be able to create human eggs and sperm from stem cells? If they haven’t already done so? They have managed it with other animals.
i know i have seen the jerremy kyle show !!
By: Mr Creosote - 6th September 2011 at 20:51
No, never heard of it before, but having Googled it it looks quite interesting. Thanks.
By: Griffhawk - 6th September 2011 at 17:19
Seen ‘Children of Men’….??
I was going to say the exact same thing!
By: Sky High - 6th September 2011 at 17:15
……….and the Eloi and the Morlocks from The Time Machine.
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th September 2011 at 16:34
From the Rocky Horror show: The Criminologist: “And crawling, on the planet’s face, some insects, called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space… and meaning.”
By: Sky High - 6th September 2011 at 13:59
Which is why it was sci-fi…….;):)
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th September 2011 at 13:45
The suggestion that humans are a virus was in some sci-fi programme or film, but I can’t remember which (maybe the Matrix?). It involved comparing mankind’s rise with the way a virus feeds on its host and eventually kills it, rather than having a symbiotic relationship like other organisms within an ecosystem. Or something.
By: paul178 - 6th September 2011 at 11:33
I agree with Al #5 100% on this.
By: Sky High - 6th September 2011 at 09:21
An interesting thought. I have no doubt that man will try to preserve his species, whatever happens, and no doubt experimentation is already taking place in various laboratories.
Homo Sapiens is of course not a virus but an evolved species amongst millions which have evolved over the last few billion years. Inm the billions of years to come before the sun dies and the earth with it, billions more specvies will evolve and billions die, just as they always have.
Homo Sapiens may well die for many reasons other than sterility.
By: symon - 6th September 2011 at 07:14
Would scientists be able to create human eggs and sperm from stem cells? If they haven’t already done so? They have managed it with other animals.
By: Al - 6th September 2011 at 07:03
Homo Sapiens is by far the worst destructive virus to hit poor old planet Earth in her history – and removing the species from the experiment could only have beneficial effects. I’ve often wondered if Mother Nature would get tired of us at some stage, and introduce some means of mass cull, just as she controls overpopulations of other species.
We humans like to think we’re the absolute zenith of evolution, to be protected and nurtured at any cost, but really we are no more important in the great scheme of things than the dead bugs on any dirty car windshield.
Bring it on…
By: FLYING SAUCER - 6th September 2011 at 01:28
We are in the midst of this breakdown…
By: danjama - 6th September 2011 at 01:14
Let’s do it.
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th September 2011 at 22:14
Seen ‘Children of Men’….??
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