Envisioning a World Without Men - ABC Nightline

[ninetysixcavy]

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Scientist Says Female-Only Reproduction Is Only a Few Years Away

Imagine a world without men: Lauren Bacall but no Bogie, Hillary Clinton but no Bill, no Starsky or Hutch.

Could the entire male sex vanish from earth?This isn't just an unlikely sci-fi scenario. This could be reality, according to Bryan Sykes, an eminent professor of genetics at Oxford University and author of "Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men."

"The Y chromosome is deteriorating and will, in my belief, disappear," Sykes told me. A world-renowned authority on genetic material, Sykes is called upon to investigate DNA evidence from crime scenes. His team of researchers is currently compiling a DNA family tree for our species.

The Y chromosome is passed from father to son, it's what makes babies into boys. Basically the human template is a female: the Y chromosome kicks in a few weeks after conception and makes a boy. "Men are genetically modified women," explained Sykes. But unlike other chromosomes, the Y chromosome can't repair itself and will, says Sykes, disappear altogether in about 125,000 years.

"Every generation one percent of men will have a mutation which reduces their fertility by 10 percent," explained Sykes. Unlike most chromosomes, the Y does not travel through the generation in pairs, so can never repair itself from a mirror. Flaws are never repaired. "So if that goes on for generation after generation," Sykes argued, "eventually there are no functioning Y chromosomes left."

So, no more men … sparsely populated sports bars, Ferrari would lose the lion's share of its business, and Hooters would probably go out of business.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4725121&page=1

Bloody hell what has the world come to...

 

[24788]

Women can't do anything without men!





























oh come on there's something good that we bring to society?!

 

[slasher]

That is pretty fucked up.

 

[Lungzyn]

If humans are still around in 125,000 years
I've decided to be in denial

 

[Will E Worm]

Scientist Says Female-Only Reproduction Is Only a Few Years Away.

They have nothing better to do like cure diseases?

I hope their experiment turns out horribly. :tongue:

 

[Ozmanks]

125,000 years...wonder how they came up with that number? I'd be surprised that in 125,000 years humans were to still be living on Earth, maybe elsewere but it would take a massive breakthrough in order to allow humans to live on Earth for another 2009 years let alone 125,000.

 

[Ainttalkinlove]

fuck yeah I love lesbians!:thumbsup::nanner:

 

[lovejoy]

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4725121&page=1

Bloody hell what has the world come to...

Even the British scientists claim they can create test-tube sperms from embryonic stem cells.

They still have to separate the sperm into "X" chromosomes sperm only and continue to create a female society.

It is science fiction and I think the Russians and the Chinese are ready to take on this "female species" nation anytime anywhere ! :nanner:

 

[mrtrebus]

Scientist Says Female-Only Reproduction Is Only a Few Years Away.

They have nothing better to do like cure diseases?

Yeah, because they are doing this research & not looking at curing diseases? :dunno:

 

[Will E Worm]

Yeah, because they are doing this research & not looking at curing diseases? :dunno:

They don't need to be doing this at all. :hatsoff:

 

[gunslingingbird]

A world without men? Fuck, how would anything get done? Also, can you imagine how dangerous driving would be? :eek:

 

[calpoon]

They don't need to be doing this at all. :hatsoff:

right,vbecause not looking at how genes work and are passed on and how they develop over time in families is TOTALLY the best way to find out how to cure disease.

 

[Xombie3000]

Kinda reminds me of the comic book, "Y: The Last Man."

Very good and enjoyable read.

 

[Johan]

125.000 years... Well, by that time, hmo Sapiens will have vanished, another specy of human will have taken over the planet.

 

[mrtrebus]

Kinda reminds me of the comic book, "Y: The Last Man."

Very good and enjoyable read.

You beat me to it! Only recently got into this comic, really good!

 

[D-rock]

I have always wondered what they say about the Y chromosome becoming useless in the future and making men infertile. There just seems to be a flaw in that. Since all mammals not to mention a tremendous amount of other living things work off that principle of X and Y chromosomes to determine gender wouldn't they have all died off a long time ago considering they have been around for much longer than 125,000 years ago and will probably be around 125,000 years from now. I wouldn't be surprised if there is another mechanism for the repair of the chromosome or at least something else that will allow the continuation of it. Life rarely designs itself to be counterproductive to one of it's main goals, reproduction.

 

[tittenman]

Well I am married so doesnt really bother me. A long way off at the moment anyhow I would suspect, so dont despair guys.

Heres something to cheer you up:
An English teacher wrote the words, 'Woman without her man is nothing' on the blackboard and asked the students to punctuate so that it made sense.

The boys wrote: 'Woman, without her man, is nothing.'

The girls wrote: 'Woman! Without her, man is nothing.'

 

[BlueBalls]

Fuck 'em!

Like the song says: "You dont know what you got till it's gone"

 

[ninetysixcavy]

I don't know any lesbians. All the women in my immediate drool over men. My gf also was hit on by a chick once and she said she never felt so uncomfortable in her life. Oh well...

 

[Will E Worm]

right,vbecause not looking at how genes work and are passed on and how they develop over time in families is TOTALLY the best way to find out how to cure disease.

You're correct. They will not cure anything doing "research" like this. :hatsoff: