will this technology make women extinct?

Question

by connecting cow uteruses to ecls machines and cloning using scnt with cow eggs we can recreate mankind and make women redundent. by inhibiting head development in the egg we can grow organs for transplant and keep extending our lives. as far as sex is concerned, this may be accomplished with sex toys or headless women. do you think we should revive women any time soon or not at all? this technology can be adapted to grow limitless ethical meat, milk, wool etc. coupled with infinite energy and warp drive capability, we can live in peace and venture forth to discover alien civilisations without the burden of women. shall we make women extinct immediately or wait a while to get samples to clone them in a few quintillion years?

Answer 1

The uterus of a cow...isn't that female? So, what you are actually explaining is a belief that a cow, not a bull will replace the female human species. I suppose it will take a person to perform this specialized genetic cloning. I suppose a man could perform this work as a lone species of human...but what would be the reason for this advancement of the human race? Cows are heavy and must be fed and exercised in order to keep them in good health. It might be true that the male could exist without a counterpart in nature, but would he want to?

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Answer 2

No. Women cannot become extinct, since the human uterus is the only place where a human embryo can fully develop, mankind would not be able to sustain existence. Despite all of this "news", it is no more accurate than The National Inquirer. Using anything from the egg of a cow in conjuntion with the sperm of a man would immediately be rejected by the body, as cross-breeding across that kind of a gap between species would be detected as foriegn material.

These theories you have provided have never been tested, nor would they be by any ethical scientist, as the embryos tested would be completely wasted and destroyed. The placenta would not be able to exist in this procedure, since the cardiovascular system would not be connected, and the embryos would die of suffocation (no oxygen or nutrients = no cellular respiration). The other flaw is that half of the embryos created would be female, and it would be both expensive and ridiculous to create females only to kill them off.

Just so you know, women don't need to be revived. Last time I checked, there were adequate amounts of females on earth.

I'm not even going to touch your infinate energy and warp drive capability theory... where do you get this stuff from?

Lastly, who says that women are a burden? This headless-women-for-sex idea is ridiculous, unless all remaining men would like to have sex with a cadaver. If there were only men left in the world, they would all kill each other. If you're able to, think about the influential women in history, then take your theory and throw it in the rubbish bin where it belongs.

I truly hope this is a joke.

Answer 3

Why go to all this complicated technology when it would be so much easier to make guys unnecessary? There are already a number of parthenogenetic species, we could add humans to it?
We could just fuse two eggs together and forget about the rest of the fuss. Much cheaper and easier.

Anyway, your cow egg will only allow to clone people. So you eliminate the advantanges of recombination. In addition all the extranuclear DNA (e.g. mitochondrial DNA) and other factors important in the earliest development will come from a cow, that may not be really beneficial or unworkable. Also courtesy of the umbilical cord the mother gives the unborn child more than just a couple of genes. Antibody resistance for cow diseases will not always be terribly useful. In addition depending how old your original nucleus donor is, the kids may end up being arthritic at age of ten or so. The plus thing of your scheme would be of course that the men would get to do all the feeding, diaper changes, dealing with tantrums and so on all by themselves. That's the smart part of your idea...

Answer 4

Not, at the moment, the cow uterus does not work on humans.