Were you ever on the medical staff at a Nazi concentration camp?
Just curious?
Gina "nanogirl" Miller
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: why do we need 30 women?
>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:49:34 -0800
>
>Gina Miller wrote:
>
>> Coming from a womans perspective, where do you think you're going to
>> find, a woman with no legs, willing to have her uterine enlarged, and
be
>> sent up to Mars alone with a bunch of sperm? Good luck trying
locate...
>
>Gina, this world has over 3 billion women now, and most of them
>have far less to lose than coddled westerners, and far more to
>gain. I had in mind some perhaps Chinese undersized female,
>having had suboptimal nutrition in her childhood, contributing
>to her small stature. Then from that still enormous pool, perhaps
>some have damaged legs, either from birth defects or from
>accidents. A spina bifida victim might even be just the ticket,
>and if so, think of it: here is some tiny insignificant crippled
>pitiful thing, always marginalized, and suddenly men in suits
>are telling her: Ling, here is your biiig chance young lady, to do
>something no one has ever done, to go where no man has
>gone, to be the greatest heroine since Amelia Erhart, hell since
>ever. You might die. But you might become the mother of a
>new race, perhaps eventually the only race of humans.
>
>Bet she would snap at the chance.
>
>[Oh, and it would hafta be embryos, not sperm, so that her
>offspring would be nonrelated genetically.] spike
>
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