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Nanobot Carry Lazy Sperm to Fertilize Living Eggs (youtube.com)
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[-] Dum@reddthat.com 32 points 1 year ago

This is clearly a case of "just because we can doesn't mean we should". Sounds like a really bad idea to create life from sperm that doesn't even move. Some people are just not meant to have kids and should come to terms with it instead of passing their own problems on to the next generation. I think it's selfish. Also it's not like there aren't enough people already, adopt and give a good life to a healthy child that otherwise wouldn't have a future.

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago

I actually find the nanobot something crazy. Regarding the "artificial insemination" question, I guess only those having such problems should speak. Just like the abortion question.

[-] Dum@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah it's really crazy impressive, from a technology pov this is amazing.

I concede I'm neither a biologist nor a doctor, and if lazy sperm is not genetic, respectively if children born from this would lead a completely normal life: awesome. I just think knowingly passing on serious disabilities with a high chance to a new generation is something that should be avoided, specifically because you can't ask the people affected, which is the children born. In the end, it's just my ignorant weird feeling from what looks like Frankensteining together something that seems dead to create new life.

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Well, if i had to follow that kind of belief, we should avoid old people (either man or woman) to have children because sperm from old man is not that good, regarding eggs we all well know the problems occurring with aging. But people smoke, drink, do stupid things and so on. So, if those are small cases I guess it's fine. We're having problems in case that becomes the standard way of having babies. However, we're experiencing a wave of women who wants to go back in time andd have babies without even going to the hospitals, so maybe things will fall into place naturally, in the end they are those who decide

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Are they trying to make someone even lazier than me?

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That baby is still dizzy

[-] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Lazy sperm? Yeah, that sounds great for the next generation.

[-] innermeerkat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Spermatozoid that couldn’t be able to fertilise in a natural way. For sure it won’t create any disease or incapacitated newborns, won’t it?

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The sperm is not a self-reproducing cell. The chromosomes it carries are not used to make it.

[-] Suoko@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

That could happen anyway unless you follow the eugenics path, but that's a completely different story. These nanobots should be seen more like a prosthesis probably, or a walker

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