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[timferius]

Is there a story out there about advanced aliens or gods coming to earth in peace and the story is more about how earth and the aliens respond to one another rather then being about a "Us versus them story... Also the aliens and gods must be here to live on earth to some extent.

So I don't mean like... a story about where super advanced aliens are welcoming humanity to a greater galactic empire or anything and send a representative who comes and goes... or where earth is given a galactic telephone.

I mean where they actually are either trying to uplift people or want to attempt peaceful coexistence.

Preferably where humans aren't drinking evil juice and eating evil cookies.

Would Childhood's End fit in to this category? I think so. So, Childhood's End.

[Neonivek]

What would FULLY BIOLOGICALLY MALE men need to become pregnant? (Fully biologically male added to prevent that one "exception")

I know a LOT of the requirements for pregnancy men already fulfill.

[wierd]

1) Some place to gestate the spawn. (A tissue printed bit of endothelium in the shape of a bag might work if you somehow get the vascular network going through it.)
2) IVF fertilization using either a cultured ovum (been done with rats and mice from skin cells), or a donor ovum.
3) regular injections of progesterone
4) Cesarean section at term
5) A doctor willing to risk his license to do the above.

Really real possible complications:

Printed tissue gives rise to malignant neoplasm
pregnancy spontaneously aborts for (reasons)-- resulting in necrotic abdominal mass that is not caught quickly
Male sterility resulting from the hormone injections
Autoimmune reactions
Unwanted morphological changes in male anatomy. (EG, growing female breasts)


That is all scifi theoretical though.  There is no compelling reason for a man to need to gestate a fetus. As such, it is an "unnecessary medial procedure", and is not "life saving"-- meaning that getting it through an ethics panel for approval as an experimental procedure is going to be like getting crocodile tears.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Let's not forget a transplanted or artificial placenta & umbilical. That might be the hardest part, honestly.

[Neonivek]

You sure a man couldn't produce enough of his own progesterone once he is pregnant?

[wierd]

Let's not forget a transplanted or artificial placenta & umbilical. That might be the hardest part, honestly.

The blastocyst makes that itself. It just needs a suitable substrate to infiltrate.  That's what the bag shaped endothelial "organ" is for.

The outer cell mass of the blastocyst becomes the placenta and umbilical chord. 

[Egan_BW]

Scoop out brain, implant into empty cloned female body. Proceed as usual.

[Neonivek]

Ok I am an idiot and I need help...

What does it mean for something to happen in 4 days?

It doesn't have the exact wording of "You have four days"

[MetalSlimeHunt]

...What?

[wierd]

"In the near future"
"Within the business week" (assuming not on weekend)
"Next several days"
"Within the next 96 hours"

etc.

[Neonivek]

So it means someone has 96 hours? Not 3 days?

[wierd]

You said 4 days.

3 days is 72 hours.

[Neonivek]

You said 4 days.

3 days is 72 hours.

I said it happens in 4 days.

[wierd]

It might be better to say "by next wednesday" then.

[Neonivek]

It might be better to say "by next wednesday" then.

What?