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Scientifically, what is the best way to ensure that no children are born without government permission?

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The Photographer in Blowup

12:40 / 17.12.02

Cutting the Fallopian tubes certainly wouldn't, as it was at a molecular level, it wouldn't be felt.

Phex: Dorset Doom

12:50 / 17.12.02

The limitation for Nanotech is that you can't destroy atoms, only change them. Possibly some sophisticated nanos might be able to convert matter into energy but the first-generation are likely to work by re-arranging sub-atomic particles (split one helium and you get three hydrogens). Converting something as large as the fallopian tubes, or as numerous as sperm, would create a lot of waste. What do we do with these spare atoms?

gridley

13:31 / 17.12.02

hey, here's the beginning of an idea....

I saw this documentry about how the body can produce three different kinds of sperm. The primary type are the standard impregnators. But the other two have to do with preventing impregnation. One kind protect the area around the egg, and will only let sperm from the same male enter. The third kind of sperm is similar except they actually seek out the sperm of other men and attack them.

Apparently they did tests with men who were going out of town (without their significant others), and before a lengthy trip, the man's sperm would mainly be those protector sperms. And upon his return, most of his sperm would be of the killer variety.

If this study I saw was valid, then there's probably some way to pervert it so that men will produce only killer sperm or protector sperm.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

Constitution Hill

23:08 / 17.01.03

A friend of mine is doing her PhD thesis on sperm hats. I'm not really up to speed on biology, but as far as i can tell, when sperm are produced they wear some kind of chemical hat that prevents them from being capable of fertilising. Somewhere along the way they lose their hats [kind of like in an american graduation ceremony] and become the real McCoy. She's researching when & where & how & why this hat-dumping occurs.

Anyhow, if it's viable, there might be away to make sure that the sperm get to keep their hats on, meaning no fertilisation... It could be through regular inoculation, a single dose of something at birth/adolescence... i think the technicalities of finding a way of sterilisation is easier than finding a 100% secure application. It'd work better if both men & women were sterile, cutting down the odds of one randy bugger slipping through the net and screwing things up.

the king of byblos

14:13 / 22.01.03

there is a very simple answer: mandatory castration of ALL males at birth. To effect a pregnancy simply take a DNA sample from the male, force the chromosones into meiosis and inject them into an egg in the lab and implant in the womb.
?not that i'd like to give anyone ideas?

but i prefer 'expressionless'' suggestion, compulsary tantric sex for all so that blokes no longer feel the need to make the final drop off ;-))

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