# The Y Chromosome is disappearing. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091 "2018-01-21T00:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091/1 "2018-01-21T00:29:30Z")
[The Y Chromosome will be gone soon. Well, in 4.6 millions years.](https://theconversation.com/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing-so-what-will-happen-to-men-90125) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091/2 "2018-01-21T00:35:09Z")
It’s worse than you think: [“Within Christopher’s lifetime, artifical insemination will render sperm as useless as an assembly line worker in Detroit.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLFPLqqf5E&t=9s) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091/3 "2018-01-21T00:52:06Z")
Your cite is, shall we say, “less then definitive” on the timeframe you quoted. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091/4 "2018-01-21T01:51:33Z")
What’s a coupla hunnerd thousand years between friends? ---
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091/5 "2018-01-22T16:11:46Z")
“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_ ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091/6 "2018-01-22T16:39:37Z")
Whoever picked the pictures for the article in the OP is a genius. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-y-chromosome-is-disappearing/807091/7 "2018-01-22T20:06:06Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Whoever picked the pictures for the article in the OP is a genius. I laughed my ass off.