caslc.blogg.se - Shmoop a brave new world

Everything is mechanical the bottles slide along on a conveyor belt and machines routinely line them up and drop the morulae inside.

Onward-to the Bottling Room! Here, the fertilized eggs (which now, having divided, have become a ball of cells called a morula) are dropped one each into bottles lined with cow peritoneum (stomach lining).

We find out that London is not the only place where this crazy stuff is going down in Singapore and Mombasa, their bokanovskification is even more impressive (seventeen-thousand clones from one egg).

Luckily, there's "Podsnap's technique," which brings that number down to about two years. In nature, as we know, it takes about thirty years for a person to mature.

(Click the summary infographic to download.) In fact, the Director can hope for little more than that: someday, they can bokanovskify indefinitely that way, all the Epsilons will be copies of each other, all the Deltas the same, etc.The Director responds that, obviously, it's a "major instrument of social stability.".(Now, we would have been more inclined to ask about the damage from radiation and alcohol poisoning, but still, not a bad question.) One of the students asks the Director about the advantage of having one hundred identical people.After that, the eggs are poisoned with alcohol until near death.Lots of the eggs die after eight minutes of radiation, but the ones that survive keep duplicating themselves. The Bokanovsky Process, which causes the eggs to divide, does so by using X-Rays-you know, those harmful things you have to wear shields for in the doctor's office. The Alpha and Beta zygotes chill out for a bit, but the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons are put through "Bokanovsky's Process," which makes one fertilized egg divide and divide until you can get ninety-six human beings instead of one. So now you've got a bunch of fertilized eggs.It seems the eggs are taken surgically from women, the duds thrown out, and the good ones fertilized in a warm sperm bath.He shows them the incubators, the "week's supply of ova," and the male gametes. The Director begins lecturing while the enthusiastic students take frantic notes.We don't know how old the Director is, and in this time period- "A.F.The Director makes sure to give these new students just enough information so they will be competent at their jobs, but not so much information that they have an idea of the big picture.He is giving them a tour, starting with "the Fertilizing room." Enter the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning with a group of new students.Inside are workers wearing white overalls and gloves.We begin with the image of a grey building of thirty-four stories called the "Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre." Inscribed over the door is the World State's Motto: "Community, Identity, Stability.".