The Quick and the Fertile 🏁
World’s First Sperm Race Swims Into Motion!!!
Battle to the End
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The world’s first-ever sperm race is formally on — swimmers are going head-to-head within the identify of science … and to highlight the intense dip in male fertility.
A crew of younger moguls and millionaire backers from the startup Sperm Racing have pulled in over $1 million to convey their wild imaginative and prescient to life — and it’s all taking place April 25 on the Hollywood Palladium … with hundreds set to observe these lil troopers compete dwell.
Sperm Racing boss Eric Zhu, a teen tech mogul, overestimated the occasion in his racing “manifesto,” saying … “Two competitors. Two samples. One microscopic finish line.”
The micro-mini marathon may have two 0.05mm-long sperm racing 20 centimeters alongside a tiny monitor designed to mimic the feminine reproductive system — suppose chemical alerts, fluid dynamics, and a synchronized begin.
The sperm that finishes first might be topped the winner, however here is the actual query — how briskly will that truly be? Primarily based on a sperm’s pure pace, this race may wrap up in a flash … or it could possibly be a sluggish crawl to the end!
Sperm Racing/Traded: Enterprise Capital
It’s getting the total Kentucky Derby therapy — HD cams catching each splash, dwell streams, commentary, leaderboards, replays … the works. And followers are even inserting bets on their favourite swimmer.
Positive, it would get just a few laughs — nevertheless it’s placing the subject of male fertility on the desk. The aim? Observe it, speak about it, and enhance it. And it issues — between 1973 and 2018, human sperm counts plunged throughout the globe by greater than 50%, from 101 million to simply 49 million per milliliter.
