PREGNANCY AT AGE 66 AND EXTENDING PHONE BATTERY LIFE – A CAUTIONARY TALE

Posted on June 26, 2010


When you review the list of news stories at CNN.com and find that a story about extending phone battery life precedes one about a 66 year old Indian woman giving birth to triplets you have to say to yourself: extending phone battery life could not be problematic but  how did she prolong hers?

Here’s how researchers plan to extend phone battery life:

A handful of universities and research labs are working on simple changes to Wi-Fi technology that they say would result in your mobile phone battery lasting two to five times as long as it does today.

These changes often don’t require new equipment — just simple upgrades to the software that controls how Wi-Fi routers send data to and from your cell phone or laptop. [CNN.com]

And that must also have been the way the 66 year old woman had a successful pregnancy at age 66.  The changes needed to succeed didn’t require new equipment.  A donor provided an egg and her husband’s sperm was routed  to the egg and then the fertilized egg was sent to her laptop – that is to the top of her lap as it were.

A CNN reporter interviewed her following the delivery of triplets roughly 2 months prematurely.  The whole thing had weakened her to the point that  she herself was in the fetal position but sat up into a meditative pose for the interview.  She was struggling to sit, the babies were struggling to breathe in their incubator while the 70 year old father – strong and calm – held an impromptu news conference at which he assured reporters that one baby would be a lawyer, another a doctor and so on. [CNN.com]

We complain that many Muslim societies treat women as useful objects and deny them education, etc.  But here is a man in India who needed heirs for his property and at the age of 69, was determined to do something about it. Now I don’t know if his wife had been denied an education but I do know this:  she  clearly has been denied the ability to walk for the foreseeable future.  I also read in another part of the forest where her health had declined and her prognosis for continued survival had been severely revised.

This whole business clearly demonstrates that humans should not now nor in the future depend on either  Wi-Fi or wifie to extend any kind of life past the age of 60.  And it may just be more beneficial to the well being of the planet and perhaps to the universe if we were to stay off the phone rather than extend its battery life.  My studied guess is that life forms on other planets have in fact heard our radio signals and have concluded that we are not worth a visit that would deplete the charge in their advanced intergalactic  batteries.

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