Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

Post by jeroenvlek » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:11 PM UTC

dag100 wrote: post #51

jeroenvlek wrote: post #49

Am I the only one wondering if it's 26 chickens at once from a single artificial egg or they just succeeded 26 times with different eggs? Rationally it probably has to be the latter, but the title confuses me.

You could RTFA and find out. (26 different artificial eggs. The artificial egg is the main development. Basically they take a chicken embryo (by cracking open a fertilized egg) and allow it to develop inside the artificial egg, and from which it can eventually be "hatched". Other methods for growing chickens from embryos outside their eggs have not had very high success rates.)

Post by detourdog » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

kombine wrote: post #42

mplanchard wrote: post #29

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No spoilers, but I used to think, along the lines of Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, that Brave New World wound up being the more accurate picture of future society than 1984, despite being less well-known and referenced in cultural consciousness. Unfortunately, it seems like the former may be enabling the latter, so we may end up with a “porque no los dos” situation.

I haven't read Brave New World but "We" by Evgeny Zamyatin left a similar impression on me, it's more subtle than 1984. It came out earlier than both books by the Western authors - even though Zamyatin was inspired while working in England in early 20th century.

Post by stavros » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #56

stavros wrote: post #47

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No man, it's just that saying "this scenario is popular because it makes for a good story therefore it'll happen in reality" is an absurd point to make.

Taking scientific breakthroughs and extrapolating and/or comparing to Science Fiction? Shock, clutch my pearls, who would do such a thing. The absurdity. Surely nobody has done this before.

Post by zamadatix » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:21 PM UTC

sghiassy wrote: post #60

maxerickson wrote: post #41

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Why? The current method is cheap.

Hopefully it changes. Male baby chicks are thrown into grinders. It’s horrendous

Post by jurgenburgen » Sun, May 24, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #35

stavros wrote: post #31

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If we wanted to pump out human slaves now, I don't think the main obstacle is that we can't find enough women to bear them.

If they are born of woman, they would be human. If they are made, we can re-label them as machines and give them lesser rights. And make ourselves feel better about treating them as lower class by some 'justification', like they don't have souls. Perhaps some gene editing to give them 'blue' skin, some non-historically-biased-color to identify them. Really. There are ton of books with these themes already. I'm not sa…