The Y Chromosome will be gone soon. Well, in 4.6 millions years.
While the visual of Human Stud Farms is amusing, the planet will be a lifeless husk well before we can go down that road. Still and all, it’d make a hell of a Discovery Channel movie !!
Fascinating bit of real science there, though. I’d no idea that this one chromosome has to do work-around to remain in the mix, so to speak.
It’s worse than you think: “Within Christopher’s lifetime, artifical insemination will render sperm as useless as an assembly line worker in Detroit.”
Stranger
Your cite is, shall we say, “less then definitive” on the timeframe you quoted.
What’s a coupla hunnerd thousand years between friends?
“In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
-Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Whoever picked the pictures for the article in the OP is a genius.
I laughed my ass off.