February 1, 2013

  • This egg has ~*~love~*~!

    K: i was actually thinking the other day about chicken eggs and
    what is that thing called where ppl believe a fertilized egg is life
    M: pro-life?
    K: anyway
    it's kind of interesting to think about it
    once a chicken egg is fertilized
    it pretty much is self sustaining
    it is "alive" sort of
    it's outside of the mother's body and it doesn't receive any more nutrients or energy
    i mean it has to be warm to stay alive but pretty much everything it needs to become a chick is itself
    so conceptually it's like it's already a chick, it just needs time
    but a human embryo, if you take it out of the mom
    even if you keep it warm
    it's going to die
    wait does it?
    the sac or wtv has nutrients but i don't think enough to keep the embryo growing
    the mom has to continually input nutrients and energy into it to keep it growing until it's a baby
    so it's not really self sustaining
    does that mean it's not alive in and of itself
    it is only alive in the sense that it's part of the mom and the mom is alive
    M: yeah, it needs the mom's nutrients
    through her blood
    K: anyway that's something i had never thought about before
    M: me neither
    K: a baby is like, an extra organ the mom has
    M: yeah
    K: but a fertilized chicken egg is like
    a chick waiting to hatch
    M: an extra organ that kicks her other organs
    K: lol
    like a cancer
    a baby is like a cancer
    it occasionally can kill the mom too
    M: it does keep growing uncontrollably
    K: it's cells dividing out of control
    yup
    crazy
    anyway
    that's a day in the life of my brain