It's a Girl!

[asterroc]

I realized today that I had an oodle of voice mail messages I hadn't checked in a while, so I went and checked them today. The exciting one is that the DNA sexing came in on my futurebird - she's a girl! Man, I keep getting girls, it's awesome. And I can't believe I was right, it was totally a bizarre wild guess. Eeeeee!

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

In humans, I think it's something like 52/48 male/female, and the theory to explain the imbalance is that men have a shorter lifespan.

I am COMPLETELY DRUNK (see icon), however, so take this with a grain of salt. (My grammar and typing are the last things to go, so I am WAY drunker than I "sound.")

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I am COMPLETELY DRUNK (see icon),

I, on the other hand, am COMPLETELY SOBER so I was able to deduce that from your icon and a recent post of yours. ;)

[kadath.livejournal.com]

The post wasn't that recent.

...I'm even drunker now!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Drunk blogging on a Friday night. Awesome. What prompted this anyway?

[kadath.livejournal.com]

I had one screwdriver, so another one didn't seem like that big a deal....

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Okay, how drunk am I?

So drunk I screwed up the ratio...it's 52/48 female/male.

...don't mind me...

[l0stmyrel1g10n.livejournal.com]

yeah, i was going to say, that sounds backwards...also, i think Y-chromosome sperm are weaker than Xs [don't remember where i heard that] so they're less likely to survive the trip to the egg.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

It was my understanding that male sperm were faster, because the Y is lighter than the X. It would make sense that they were more fragile than the X, so that it would even out the chances for a female zygote.

(But, y'know, drunk.)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I'm not drunk, but I'm tired, so that I read that the way you intended it, not the way you typed. And I had a typo in a reply above somewhere.