FAQs
1. Question: What happens to a sperm after it fertilizes an egg?…in humans, that is.
Answer: As you are probably aware, only the strongest swimmers are able to negotiate the sometimes wild upstream ride to the unfertilized egg. The fact that literally this one sperm in a billion is able to conquer the salmon-like upstream trek, gives testeament to its powers of endurance. Therefore, when it has finished this little chore, it is by no means spent.
Thus, it then detaches from the egg and catches a wave out of the female body and into an eddy of water that continues to carry it toward its ultimate destination…the sea. Upon reaching the ocean, it’s free ride is over and it must again, swim. It is the seawater, it is thought, that turns on the little magnetic homing beacon that is the opposite charge (ergo, the attractant pole) of the magnetized force residing inside the great sperm whale. At some point in time, the paths of the little sperm and the constantly patrolling sperm whale cross. (I know what you are thinking, and I just want to say that I find that to be dithspicabul!)
The little sperm then hitches a ride on the whale and wriggles its way up to the hole in its head. The sperm whale periodically swallows sea water and blows it out its sperm hole, then allows the water to run back down into its head. At this time, the little sperm goes over the lip and into the hole, being washed dounward past the now closed water flap and is diverted into a huge hollow where millions of other successful sperm congregate. There it lives out its days in the company of the other super sperm, until one day it dies and is absorbed into the body of the sperm whale, becoming nourishment.
Of course, not all successful sperm make it to this natural end. Most, alas, are trapped in a water treatment plant somewhere and are, well, for the lack of a better term…aborted. Where is the outcry for the pre-embryo?
2. Why do people choose to not smoke?
Wow! That's a toughie.... Had you asked why people choose to smoke, I could have brought up the scenario that they mischievously build a fire in front of their face so they can inhale the pollutants and cause their breath and clothes to smell like burnt feathers. Who can deny the great fun it would be to then mingle with other people and offend them ever so slightly with their smell, and it's all legal! (I suspect some people smoke so they can pretend to be trying to cover up this offensive smell with one even more offensive... cologne.)
Of course doctors and such harp on the price one has to pay for all that fun. But I suppose anything that's fun has a price.
I can only take a wild guess at the state of mind of the Non-smokers. I'm thinking, though, that it is sexual, statistically speaking. It could be they realize that by smoking, they would be cutting the number of sexual partners available to them by more than half. That is to say a non-smoker can go out with a smoker as a last resort, but smokers are pretty much limited to the company of other smokers. Or non-smokers who are desperate.
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