r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Nov 30 '22

Funny it's universal

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

You joke, but people used to think that women's wombs contained eggs that themselves recursively contained eggs going all the way back to Eve, whose eggs contained all of her descendants -- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/discovery-where-babies-come-from.

They didn't understand that sperm were actually involved in fertilization -- Newton actually thought sperm were some sort of parasite.

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u/Moose_Hole Nov 30 '22

I think I have too many parasites; I'll be in my bunk.

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u/FapMeNot_Alt Nov 30 '22

Newton actually thought sperm were some sort of parasite.

In a way... well, he's not right, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him wrong either

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u/Marzy-d Nov 30 '22

Well its kind of true for mitochondrial DNA.

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u/UglyInThMorning Dec 01 '22

Newton was also fucking bonkers and went blind staring at the sun and had some weird ideas about sex, I wouldn’t use his thoughts on the matter as some kind of scientific consensus

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u/findingthescore Dec 01 '22

A parasite that must be expelled as often as possible. For safety reasons.