Breeding like Bunnies

[sirhugs]

What if there was a woman with a mutant gene that meant she only needed nine hours not nine months from conception to birth?
And she loved sex, and contraception did not work on her?
And her female offspring inherited the gene?

you might call this a plot bunny.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

What if there was a woman with a mutant gene that meant she only needed nine hours not nine months from conception to birth?
And she loved sex, and contraception did not work on her?
And her female offspring inherited the gene?

you might call this a plot bunny.

So kinda the opposite of what's going on in the world now, where governments are trying to kill off their citizens.

I know this will probably get deleted.

 

[Carnevil9]

So basically she's a tribble.

 

[sirhugs]

So basically she's a tribble.

almost that cute, yup.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

You do know what the trouble with tribbles is... 10 seconds of sex an the kids live forever.

 

[Carnevil9]

You do know what the trouble with tribbles is... 10 seconds of sex an the kids live forever.

And they're born pregnant. Which is a real time saver!

 

[Deleted member 5521640]

What if there was a woman with a mutant gene that meant she only needed nine hours not nine months from conception to birth?
And she loved sex, and contraception did not work on her?
And her female offspring inherited the gene?

you might call this a plot bunny.

Even if she loved sex, going into labor every nine hours would be a nice way to kill the libido Even if she stretched out times between sex, somehow I think the desire would be killed knowing what laid in store as soon as she did the deed.

Unless this mutant gene somehow took away the pains of child birth. That in itself would be a miracle!

 

[LupusDei]

I get the wish for time compression... perhaps the children mature extremely fast too? (...might be tricky to reconcile with rules...)

However, if one contemplate about the breeding potential of humans as is, a society hell bent to (re)populate a planet with little restrictions could go from almost arbitrary small group to 10 billion within 300 years easily. Human population growth is entirely economy/culture restrained, not biologically.

 

[sirhugs]

I get the wish for time compression... perhaps the children mature extremely fast too? (...might be tricky to reconcile with rules...)

However, if one contemplate about the breeding potential of humans as is, a society hell bent to (re)populate a planet with little restrictions could go from almost arbitrary small group to 10 billion within 300 years easily. Human population growth is entirely economy/culture restrained, not biologically.

thank you Thomas Malthus. Now we know your secret identity

 

[LupusDei]

thank you Thomas Malthus. Now we know your secret identity

The question I once stumbled upon was:

If an expedition to an alien world surprisingly discovered exisisting human population integrated with the alien society already equal or exceeding Earth's by up to an order of magnitude in numbers, what was the minimum time in Earth years since the original abduction of the seed humans, limited by relatively natural growth (as in absence of massive cloning and/or widespread use of artificial wombs)?

I was doubtful about number of zeroes, but expected between three and four, so an answer in low thousands of years. But simple arithmetic wouldn't suffice, since you can squeeze three generations within the fertility period, while humans aren't known to produce large litters. So I built a few simple numerical simulations. And was myself borderline shocked by the results, the lower limit was firmly two zeroes, actually just a couple centuries.

One expected, but very interesting aspect of that little research was the extreme impact of minimal reproductive age. A little tweak of that can more than double population in a surprisingly short time downstream.