Originally Posted by Bubba po

The plural of ovum is ova. :razz:

Originally Posted by JTaylor

"one of" would indicate singular, Bubba. :)

Originally Posted by Bubba po

"Thousands" is the operator. :razz:

Originally Posted by G-STAR

I think I'll leave you ladies to it. ;)

Originally Posted by Bubba po

I hate copied and pasted bull****, I do. :razz:

Originally Posted by JTaylor

The indicator implies the singular.

Originally Posted by GC8

Bob has a downer on optimism at the moment, with reason.

Originally Posted by Bubba po

And anyway, you missed out the bit where billions of suns had to be born and die in order to manufacture the more complex atoms upon which the whole fragile edifice is built. :)

Originally Posted by JTaylor

Remarkable, aren't we? :)

Originally Posted by JTaylor

Does anyone else ever stop and think how truly magnificent our life is? Goodness! The odds of our exsistence occuring are barely comprehensible. All the way back to the big bang, when a primeval explosive atom some 10 to 20 billion years ago lead to a series of chance reactions. The Earth then had to be placed at a perfect distance from the Sun in order for life to be given a chance to exist. Miraculously, evolution took a course which gave birth to the human race.

So, the chances of us being here thus far are pretty slim. It then gets really interesting. Of the billions of humans that have populated the Earth over thousands of years, it just so happens that your parents met and that one of the millions of spermatozoa per millilitre produced by your Father penetrated one of the thousands of ovum harboured by your Mother.

You then survived long enough and learnt enough to read what I'm able to type.

We're incredilble! :notworthy

Originally Posted by cookstar

You were smoking skunk just befre this wasn't you? :D

Originally Posted by Chip Sengravy

Wimmins only release two eggs, one down each labia, twice a month. I learned that in school :thumb:

Originally Posted by JTaylor

I wish I had been! :D

A fair few pints of SA were to blame :o. Having said that, I still think life is awesome. :)

Originally Posted by Jaydee5

I think it's quite important to think about where on earth we were actually born :confused:

There, but for the grace of someone/thing, I could now be in a mud hut in the backwaters of an Indian swamp :( and have no idea what SN was all about :Whatever_

Would I be a better person :confused:

Originally Posted by Einstein RA

Having read all of your wonderfully philosophical post it is with some irony I have to say that in the context of the Universe, we (humans) and indeed the Earth are extremely insignificant.:)

Originally Posted by JTaylor

Quite. Whilst we are, without doubt, wondrous, we remain (relatively) insignificant. To be part of something so great defies my powers of description.

I'd strongly consider being placed in stasis. When we (the human race) atain collective second tier memes Spiral dynamics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
we'll begin to step out, united, into the 'final frontier'. Won't that be something?

The petty bickering and in-fighting that takes place upon our planet right now will be viewed with derision within the next millenium. What I'd give to be there! :)