• Flax@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      This is actually a genius question. Technically would that mean that a premature baby would have to wait an extra few months after their birthday?

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        Nope. Of course not. Your age is a function of your birthdate. you’re not a person before then.

        I know what I said.

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    Baby in 2040 at age 15. “You mean I could have been born in 1995!? I could have at least enjoyed some of the early 2000s!

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    There’s an easy way to test her true age. Everybody knows the millenial can’t resist the avocado toast.

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      I watched that movie not knowing anything about it. When they start taking about the “youngest person on Earth” In the first scene, I thought it was a comedy 🤣

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    Frozen embryo. Meh.

    I thought this was about extended gestation at first, which is something I’ve always wondered about: is the whole 9-months thing driven by the baby or the mother? Or more specifically, is 9 months the optimal amount of time for a baby to be in the womb?

    Like if we manipulated the hormones / blocked the whole pressure-oxytocin feedback loop on the maternal side to just keep the mother gestating for… 12 months? 15? 3 years?? Would the ‘newborn toddler’ have a hyper-developed brain? Or just a normal brain that lost out on the first 3 years of critical life experience?

    If our incubation tech was good enough to fully replace a biological mother… 20 years? …there’s a dystopian sci-fi writing prompt for ya. …or like, the key to super humans.

    Or, would shit like the foramen ovale on the fetal side of things just close off anyway and put it into a birth-now-or-die situation?

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    There’s a lot of heavy lifting by a lot of words in there. Saying the baby has a “biological sister” is at best a half truth and more like a total falsehood. I have a half sister out there somewhere that was adopted away that I’ve never met. And that’s far more close than this scenario.