I know this sounds like an odd question, but it’s an inter-agency trivia question. I think a show told the answer on TLC yesterday and that is how someone came up with the question.
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O.K. how fast DO sperm swim?
I think that depends on if it actually made it “inside” or if its just doing the “breast stroke”.
I read in a friends medical textbook once that its about 6 inches per hour.
Shouldn’t the thread title be “How fast do sperm swim?”
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Only if all sperm swam at the same speed. I’ll bet my sperm are the Mark Spitzs’ of sperm.
The original fire-and-forget missile!
Actually, 6 inches an hour sounds pretty fast for a microscopic critter. How long is a sperm and, if it were 6’ long (retaining the same velocity to scale) how fast would it be then? Something along the lines of "If a man could leap the same distance as a flea, relative to his body length, he would be able to jump over a barn (or other some-such).