A Reason to Appreciate being Alive. - General

In an average male ejaculation, there are over 500 million sperm cells. There was a 1 in 500 million chance of your cell fertilizing your mother's egg. You won the lottery, so to speak.

[QUOTE=Not Dumb;25618853]In an average male ejaculation, there are over 500 million sperm cells. There was a 1 in 500 million chance of your cell fertilizing your mother's egg. You won the lottery, so to speak.[/QUOTE] I'm a twin, so I had a 2 is 500 million chance.

I didn't win any lottery, I'm just a bad motherfucker compared to the other sperm.

I would've been alive anyway, as something else on this space. :smug: Its lucky that I'm human thats why I appreciate being alive.

It's lucky that I am a white guy, middle class, in a developed country, that's why I am happy to be alive.

These things makes me think that we're the "second life". We were the one that lost the race. I mean, how can a person "feel" alive? Think if everything is just an illusion. Me and my weird thoughts.

[QUOTE=Chekko;25619239]These things makes me think that we're the "second life". We were the one that lost the race.[B] I mean, how can a person "feel" alive? Think if everything is just an illusion.[/B] Me and my weird thoughts.[/QUOTE] poop lol [editline]24th October 2010[/editline] It's all an illusion brooooo smok wed eryxvadfnjsjskafdhkhfshagkfjd

[QUOTE=Not Dumb;25618853]In an average male ejaculation, there are over 500 million sperm cells. There was a 1 in 500 million chance of your cell fertilizing your mother's egg. You won the lottery, so to speak.[/QUOTE] Wow. This kind of just made my day. :v:

My...my dad drizzled. 1 in 50 chance. :(

[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;25619213]It's lucky that I am a white guy, middle class, in a developed country, that's why I am happy to be alive.[/QUOTE] Pretty much this.. hit the gene lottery.

[QUOTE=Chekko;25619239]These things makes me think that we're the "second life". We were the one that lost the race. I mean, how can a person "feel" alive? Think if everything is just an illusion. Me and my weird thoughts.[/QUOTE] are you a hindu

[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;25618929]I'm a twin, so I had a 2 is 500 million chance.[/QUOTE] No, you still had a one in a million chance. Twins don't form til the single sperm gets into the egg. Please correct me if I'm wrong with my biology facts or whatever. I always enjoy gaining insight.

[B]Doctor Manhattan[/B]: Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle. [B]Laurie Juspeczyk[/B]: But... if me, my birth, if [I]that's[/I] a thermodynamic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world! [B]Dr. Manhattan[/B]: Yes. Anybody in the world... But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... [I]I[/I] forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take our breath away. Come... dry your eyes. For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home.

I didn't win, the other sperm just lost

[QUOTE=cqbcat;25624280]No, you still had a one in a million chance. Twins don't form til the single sperm gets into the egg. Please correct me if I'm wrong with my biology facts or whatever. I always enjoy gaining insight.[/QUOTE] No, there has to be 2 sperm. Identical twins I believe fertilize the egg during cell division, and then becomes 2 separate fertilized eggs. Conjoined twins is similar, but the eggs fully divide later, so they kinda grow attached. Fraternal twins are 2 different eggs that have been fertilized. All cases, 2 eggs are fertilized by 2 sperm.

That's ridiculous, the womans EGG contained you not the sperm. The sperm just activates it and morphs into the egg.

[QUOTE=haloguy234;25624286][B]Doctor Manhattan[/B]: Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle. [B]Laurie Juspeczyk[/B]: But... if me, my birth, if [I]that's[/I] a thermodynamic miracle... I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world! [B]Dr. Manhattan[/B]: Yes. Anybody in the world... But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... [I]I[/I] forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take our breath away. Come... dry your eyes. For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home.[/QUOTE] I wanna know what life it is that he said he's going to create. [editline]24th October 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=LieutenantLeo;25624406]That's ridiculous, the womans EGG contained you not the sperm. The sperm just activates it and morphs into the egg.[/QUOTE] What? I'm saying that, because I am a twin, that means that there was twice the opportunity for me to be born. It's still a slim chance, yes, but it's more than a single child birth.

[QUOTE=Not Dumb;25618853]In an average male ejaculation, there are over 500 million sperm cells. There was a 1 in 500 million chance of your cell fertilizing your mother's egg. You won the lottery, so to speak.[/QUOTE] Like I would care if I didn't.

I'm happy to live in a well developed and rich country Think of the chances to become born in Africa :v:

The fact that you are thinking about the odds of you existing make the statement itself irrelevant. That you can question your own existance is proof of the aforementioned existance, and there is no alternative consciousness if you weren't alive, so... Like, whatever man.

[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;25624400]No, there has to be 2 sperm. Identical twins I believe fertilize the egg during cell division, and then becomes 2 separate fertilized eggs. Conjoined twins is similar, but the eggs fully divide later, so they kinda grow attached. Fraternal twins are 2 different eggs that have been fertilized. All cases, 2 eggs are fertilized by 2 sperm.[/QUOTE] Identical twins are 1 sperm 1 egg Fraternal is 2 sperm 2 egg

Fraternal twins: When two egg cells are released simultaneousness during a woman's menstrual cycle, and are then fertilized by two separate sperm cells, two separate embryos form. It's like two separate pregnancies, but happening at once. Identical twins: A single egg is fertilized as normal and begins to grow as normal, yet at one point splits. They then grow again normally as two separate embryos, but identical in genetics.

Sometimes i kinda wish i was the sperm cell that didnt make it, it would save my mother a whole lot of agony and pain, and save both my mom and dad a shit load of money. Killing yourself - 1 Living - 0

[QUOTE=Strider*;25623958]Pretty much this.. hit the gene lottery.[/QUOTE] Not the gene lottery, more the geographical location lottery. Having white heritage isn't as big of deal as people make it out to be, it's more a matter of geographical location. I know white people from rough neighborhoods and they're pretty much the same as the black people in the area.

The reason I stay alive is because I know, that inside me right now, I have atoms and cells that are made up of the same material that could've been very well capable of being at the big bang. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk[/media]