Having Babies In Space.

[Rob Grant]

*facepalm*

all this is off topic..

i mean how are humans allowed to have babies when they are AWAY from earth...

you cant have babies in SPACE can you..

GE is just a way to poss do that... but it wa a general discusstuon about Babies generally..

if ur not suroudned by the environment.. how do babies come about..

 

[SilentP]

i mean how are humans allowed to have babies when they are AWAY from earth...

you cant have babies in SPACE can you..

Why not?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

You can have babies in space if there's oxygen and artificial gravity. The conditions on a spaceship are Earth-like.

So I have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

you cant have babies in SPACE can you..

Yes you can. At least in science fiction where you have gravity on starships.

if ur not suroudned by the environment.. how do babies come about..

Sexual intercourse, I think.

 

[kes7]

if ur not suroudned by the environment.. how do babies come about..

Sexual intercourse, I think.

 

[Vonstadt]

if ur not suroudned by the environment.. how do babies come about..

Sexual intercourse, I think.

I actually saw that coming and STILL wasn't ready for it

Vons

 

[captcalhoun]

so, coherent thought still eludes this thread...

 

[chardman]

i mean how are humans allowed to have babies when they are AWAY from earth...
you cant have babies in SPACE can you..

Where did you get such a silly idea? Of course humans can have babies away from Earth. They can conceive and give birth in virtually any Earth-like environment, be it aboard a spacecraft or on an alien world. Why would you believe any differently?

 

[Lindley]

^Well, it's a long way to Vulcan as the Stork flies, innit?

 

[Praetor]

While some interesting things have been said in this thread, I'm very confused as to why the OP seems to believe that it would be impossible to have a baby in space without the aid of genetic engineering. As others have already correctly pointed out, an inside of a starship simulates Earth-like environment almost perfectly, unlike our current 21st century spacecraft.

The only potential threat I can see (also as has already been pointed out) is the danger that the baby will not be exposed to certain things found in a natural environment necessary to develop immunities against them, but then again Trek tech may have developed a means of innoculating to cause that, without any sort of genetic engineering.

I also have to agree that the genetic engineering ban that seems to be in place would appear only be designed to limit anyone having an unfair advantage over another and prevent another Khan, not to prevent correcting deficiencies or making an interspecies genetic cocktail for reproduction. I'd also like to think that "Unnatural Selection" was for whatever reason a special case.

 

[Pegaritaville]

Which raises the question of how much was really wrong with young Julian Bashir. Did his parents take defensible corrective measures to help a factually retarded Julian reach parity with his classmates, and then overdid it? Or was Julian doing perfectly fine originally, and the parents overreacted entirely in giving him a boost? On this, we can't really trust the statements we hear in "Dr. Bashir, I Presume" because they are made by highly biased people.

Timo Saloniemi

Based on what we saw of the Mirror Universe Bashir- who most likely didn't receive genetic enhancements- I'd say his parents overreacted. MU Bashir may have been a bit whacked, but he didn't strike me as someone who was intellectually challenged. And although the DS9 relaunch isn't canon, one of the books also seems to indicate that Julian would've been fine without the genetic enhancements.

As for the original question, I have no idea what's even being asked.

 

[-Brett-]

um.. whether it is or not doesent matter..

it should be allowed for humans.. JUST to allow procretion.. as they arent native to space.. like the all those other aliens.. or like Data.. who was able to make his child.. tho i suppsoe he is sort of not a 'real man'.. so might be able to make a child 'properller' anyway..

I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at here? There's nothing to prevent humans from breeding in space.

And the vast majority of the aliens in Star Trek aren't native to space either, unless places like Vulcan and Qo'Nos are just really well disguised starships. And Data was 'born' on a planet as well.

yeh.. but they are all in the night sky! ie Space..

Either this guy's a troll or he didn't pay a whole lot of attention in school.

 

[captcalhoun]

Travis seemed fine, if a little quiet, despite being born in space and spending his formative years there...

 

[Sci]

I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at here? There's nothing to prevent humans from breeding in space.

And the vast majority of the aliens in Star Trek aren't native to space either, unless places like Vulcan and Qo'Nos are just really well disguised starships. And Data was 'born' on a planet as well.

yeh.. but they are all in the night sky! ie Space..

Either this guy's a troll or he didn't pay a whole lot of attention in school.

Or he's still in school. Grade school.

 

[chardman]

They say turnabout is fair play. As such, I'm going to ask you some questions that you've asked of others.

From the thread "Why I saw Star Trek five times".

how old are you OP?
is english your first language?
do you have any learning disabilities?

And I'll add one of my own: Home schooled?

Just trying to figure out how you got the harebrained idea that humans couldn't reproduce anywhere other than Earth itself.

 

[Myasishchev]

I'd also like to think that "Unnatural Selection" was for whatever reason a special case.

It was an overcomplicated plan by Starfleet to get rid of Pulaski once and for all, that unfortunately didn't work out.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Let's stop the personal shots here, please. Give Rob Grant an opportunity to explain his theory.

Rob, please explain what you are talking about - because what you've said so far is, difficult to understand, to say the least...

 

[The Badger]

Can people have sex on a starship?
Yes. Apart from all the implied times Kirk did we actually saw Deanna and Riker do the deed in Nemesis. A creepy and disturbing scene, even before the Reman turned up.

Can baby's be born on a starship?
Yes. Mollie O'Brien being the obvious example.

you cant have babies in SPACE can you..

GE is just a way to poss do that... but it wa a general discusstuon about Babies generally..

if ur not suroudned by the environment.. how do babies come about..

OK, now I'm a little confused. In the OP, you asked about having babies on a starship. In this post, it almost seems as if you are talking about having babies 'in SPACE'.

In other words, not on a ship or station, but actually in the vacuum of space itself.

Surely I misunderstand, Rob. That's not what you mean is it?

 

[Praetor]

I'd also like to think that "Unnatural Selection" was for whatever reason a special case.

It was an overcomplicated plan by Starfleet to get rid of Pulaski once and for all, that unfortunately didn't work out.

Admiral #1: "Dammit, Bob, that old bitch is still with us."
Admiral #2: "At least the liklihood the android will go homicidal on her increases with each passing day..."

 

[hyzmarca]

There are some advantages to genetically engineering people so that they can survive and thrive in a microgravity vacuum. It saves resources on shuttlecraft, for instance, and on starship life support systems.