Michael Ash wrote:
> In _Children of Men_, humanity suffers from unexplained infertility
which
> results in no babies having been born for years, and is expected to
> eventually result in the extinction of the race. The reason isn't
> explained. Maybe God just doesn't like people.
In a similar theme, check out "The Locusts" by Niven and Barnes.
Neither it nor _Children of Men_ made much scientific sense, but they
were both quite entertaining. _Children of Men_, in particular, left
_two_ big questions unanswered -- one would have probably been okay, but
two left you kind of scratching your head. Still, it was worth seeing.
> So let's make it a little more general. Maybe God doesn't like *** no
> matter what does it. So one fine day ***ual fertility simply switches
off.
> A***ual reproduction still works, but any *** never results in
> fertilization. What happens?
>
> Life won't come cra****ng to quite an instant halt since the body's cells
> can still divide and all the really low orders of life keep going just
> fine.
Sounds like the Combine suppression field from _Half-Life 2_ :-).
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