@okeribok: This is where we need to start inhabiting many different rocks, with differing gravities. Throw some mammals on the moon, and some on Mars, just to see the effects of 1/6th or 1/3 G on mammalian reproduction. Take some of the smaller critters and put them on a centrifuge, and try different rates. See? space travel and sex do make for a great mix, in spite of that hot mess DEFYING GRAVITY.
@Smeagol92055: R.O.A.C.H.: I'm so glad we have people like you to bitch about this.
Not all of us had heard about this experiment until now. I know I hadn't because I was four years old when the experiment was performed.
Also, this article was written not because of an experiment, but an article being published on the subject in this week's issue of what I assume is some sort of science journal.
So please, either pull your head out of your ass or don't bother to comment.
@Smeagol92055: R.O.A.C.H.: Uh. The citation of the article is 2009, the copyright on the article is 2009, the reception and publication dates are all summer 2009. I don't know where the fuck you get 1994.
And so, my dear Watson, it looks to these perspicacious and piercing eyes that perhaps yet another man is full to the brim with "it". I like these little science articles. Don't harsh our buzz, old man.
@ThisDudeRufus: If you can stay on a roller coaster continuously from conception to implantation (~6 days on average for humans) science would be quite grateful. Mostly for the hilariousness of watching someone try to do that, but also for the result.
i love the undertones in the clip: the comparison with earthworms, the unstated and unanswered question of how we gathered all this information on their anatomy, the live specimen of a sentient species, the lack of emotional attachment making them unhuman very well done.
@CoffeyWasHere: Incidentally that's one of the things that pissed me off the most about Fallout 3. It had that faux-50's look from the original games even though the disaster allegedly took place a few decades from now.
@worrytron: i don't understand why you specify fallout 3 here. all of the fallout games take place after the disaster in their 2077 and all of them have the faux-50's look.
You didn't finish your research on ovulation. A year later:
Research spearheaded by Baerwald et al.(2004) suggests that the menstrual cycle may not regulate follicular growth as strictly as previously thought. In particular, the majority of women during an average twenty-eight day cycle experience two or three "waves" of follicular development, with only the final wave being ovulatory. The remainder of the waves are anovulatory, characterized by the developed preovulatory follicle falling into atresia (a major anovulatory cycle) or no preovulatory follicle being chosen at all (a minor anovulatory cycle).
I hope there'll be a cultural shift at some point about the way male sexuality is perceived. Men are assumed (more like "required," in fact) to be very sexual, and they're the ones who are assumed to want sex more, and are usually expected to be the ones to do most of the "work" in the bedroom, but at the same time their *own* sexuality is assumed to be a very simple, uncomplicated thing. It may be easy (sometimes all too much so) for a guy to reach orgasm, but that and a pill to help him get hard does not a satisfying sex life make. Men have the same needs for intimacy and other emotional aspects of sex as women, and just because it's easy for them to reach orgasm doesn't mean the journey shouldn't be just as important as the destination, as it were. But the way masculinity is all too often viewed today means that even as men are expected to be uber-enthusiastic about sex (even when they might not want to be,) admitting that their own sexual nature might be a complex and even subtle thing might be seen as somehow threatening their masculinity. And so the issue is rarely discussed.
You know, I was about to go "Well, obviously she's facing left", then stopped myself and said "wait...is that her spine?" I believe she is facing to the right.
@Rincewind: yeah, and what the heck is that huge vacuole on the right that gets bigger and bigger? i feel like a dope for having to question my own innards..
@geekgrrl: That's the bladder. It also looks bigger in the final (post-orgasm) picture because the image is actually taken from closer-up (notice you can see less of the spinal column). I think they show a closeup in that final image so you can see that the uterus has dropped down and is much more open to the vaginal canal. It's been shown that after orgasm, the uterus actually seems to "sip" from the end of the vaginal canal. So basically, if you give a woman a nice orgasm, her body is more likely to suck up your sperm.
i'm sorry, that was inappropriate. it is fascinating how it changes shape.
@corpore-metal: i often get the WC urge too, but that may be mental conditioning. if done right, it often feels like i have to go during the act, especially when (TMI warning) female ejaculation is involved. i also prefer to clean up a little.
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Not all of us had heard about this experiment until now. I know I hadn't because I was four years old when the experiment was performed.
Also, this article was written not because of an experiment, but an article being published on the subject in this week's issue of what I assume is some sort of science journal.
So please, either pull your head out of your ass or don't bother to comment.
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Just joking, and as someone who was in elementary school when this was first published, I too appreciate the article.
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Still, this is the kind of experiment they should re-test. Regularly.
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And so, my dear Watson, it looks to these perspicacious and piercing eyes that perhaps yet another man is full to the brim with "it". I like these little science articles. Don't harsh our buzz, old man.
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do they start swimming in the wrong direction
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The (my) mind boggles.
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@icelight: I'd be happy to try if I had a volunteer, a video camera and a roller coaster that looks like a an El Camino ('Cuz I'm classy).
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I'm getting the feeling I may like the viral stuff for this better than the actual movie.
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Of course, Checkov would be looking for newkulear wesicles.
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And I'm also confused as to why this needed to be in a 1950s/60s film-grain style when this movie clearly takes place in modern times.
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Research spearheaded by Baerwald et al.(2004) suggests that the menstrual cycle may not regulate follicular growth as strictly as previously thought. In particular, the majority of women during an average twenty-eight day cycle experience two or three "waves" of follicular development, with only the final wave being ovulatory. The remainder of the waves are anovulatory, characterized by the developed preovulatory follicle falling into atresia (a major anovulatory cycle) or no preovulatory follicle being chosen at all (a minor anovulatory cycle).
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I recommend it to everyone.
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A very hot FAIL!
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You know, I was about to go "Well, obviously she's facing left", then stopped myself and said "wait...is that her spine?" I believe she is facing to the right.
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i'm sorry, that was inappropriate. it is fascinating how it changes shape.
@corpore-metal: i often get the WC urge too, but that may be mental conditioning. if done right, it often feels like i have to go during the act, especially when (TMI warning) female ejaculation is involved. i also prefer to clean up a little.
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