Timeline for With access to near-future technology, what is the largest amount of healthy children a mother could give birth to in her lifetime?
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 18:31 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | If the evil empire needs a lot more cannon fodder, why not increase production of robot soldiers in the factories? War robots are a near future technology. Inventing and building war robots is a lot easier than inventing and building parent surrogate robots, so the evil empire will not be able to raise, educate, and train nearly as many people as it could create with reproductive technology, unless it uses parental surrogate robots, in which case it should be able to crank out billions of war robots and not need to force the breeding of biological soldiers. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 18:29 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | I note that now that light weight assault rifles are common child soldiers are common in third world conflicts. Thus the Evil Empire's cannon fodder do not have to be adults to carry guns. I note that many evil users of teenage and child soldiers are equal opportunity and use many girl soldiers. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:58 | comment | added | RonJohn | @JBH Brave New World FTW!!! | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 4:56 | comment | added | JBH | Here's the problem with this question. Either @RonJohn is right based on natural childbirth, or the answer is millions because the average woman is born with millions of eggs and futuretech is allowed to harvest them for test tubes. Since the number can be anything between 34 and millions depending on unspecified tech, the answer is POB. Frankly, if you need the people, you need to get the human out of the equation as quickly as possible. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 3:17 | vote | accept | Sydney Sleeper | ||
| Apr 23, 2018 at 1:22 | answer | added | Ed Marty | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:37 | comment | added | Pelinore | @Sydney Sleeper : I'm only a few weeks old here myself so don't go too tightly by my opinion, check the help center resources (the question mark (?) top right) & what that says about questions. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:35 | comment | added | RonJohn | Also, who's going to run the academies, if all the women are constantly pregnant? | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:34 | comment | added | RonJohn | "I wouldn't have figured that was important here. ... the government takes the males to be raised in a military academy, and the females to be educated at performing homefront tasks such as factory work." LOL. There won't be too many newborns marching drill or running machine tools. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:32 | comment | added | Sydney Sleeper | @Pelinore I see what you mean, and in that case I believe it might be best if I temporarily delete this question to try and fix it to fit into the parameters you specified. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:31 | comment | added | Sydney Sleeper | @RonJohn I wouldn't have figured that was important here, since it's only the birth that is relevant to the question and not the rest of the offspring's development. If it's completely necessary for the question, the government takes the males to be raised in a military academy, and the females to be educated at performing homefront tasks such as factory work. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:31 | comment | added | Pelinore | The questions are supposed to be of the "would this work" or "is this plausible" type, unless you specify the methods being used in the question there is no correct answer & you force anyone answering to first decide the methods for themselves, that's why what you've done is ask "how to" & there can be no right answer, the unspecified near future tech is especially egregious as everyone's going to have a different idea of a) what's possible b) how long away "near future" is, so it's completely opinion based. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:26 | comment | added | RonJohn | "* would have believed a question like this relies only on reproductive science.*" Sydney, you're ignoring the question of who would raise them. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:25 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Pelinore I voted-to-close Too Broad. Yes, my comment is simplistic, but shows that the answer is nothing but grade school math. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:24 | comment | added | Sydney Sleeper | So what I'm hearing is that I should change the question from "How many births are possible" to "What are some methods of increasing births." The issue I have with this option is that it changes the answer far beyond what I'm looking for. I'm also not entirely sure how this is too opinion based, as I would have believed a question like this relies only on reproductive science. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:15 | comment | added | Pelinore | @RonJohn : not so simple, not everyone hits menopause at 45, not everyone lives too 45, not everyone hits puberty at 15 (the average is nearer 11 by the way), plus OP specifies "near-future tech" & no "Ethics and Morals". So we've option on using drugs to induce puberty early & more to delay menopause, possible options on inducing pregnancy a month or two early so you can impregnate them again sooner plus of course fertility drugs to increase the instances of multiple births (twins, triplets, etc). With the question as given any answer can only be completely opinion based. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:07 | comment | added | RonJohn | It's simple math: 9 months of pregnancy + 2 months of recovery is 11 months. The 31 (inclusive) years from 15 to 45 is 372 months, which is 34 pregnancies. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:04 | comment | added | RonJohn | "to continuously produce children." Who's going to raise them? | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:04 | history | edited | RonJohn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Men don't give birth.
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 0:02 | comment | added | Pelinore | Impossible to say & any answer is going to be primarily opinion based, what your really asking for is "what ways might we go about maximizing births" -- lifespan? a lifetime is a non specific period of time, so is that an average lifetime? & if yes would that be average biblical, average modern south coast US or seventeenth century Ugandan average lifetimes? question needs more detail. | |
| Apr 22, 2018 at 23:46 | history | asked | Sydney Sleeper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |