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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Why would they have to be inbred? If I did indeed find a AI clinic with viable eggs and sperm, they wouldn't likely be brothers or sisters. They'd be genetically variable, and able to procreate without any problems.
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Good point! But I still wouldn't want to raise all of them on my own!
I'm a woman. but i'm not so sure that i'd be willing to repopulate the planet single-handed. Not right away, at least. Having no one to help me change diapers would be difficult.
I would accept my role of mother eventually, though. Probably because I'd be terribly bored and want company. Knowing that I could make company, no matter how painful... might as well try.
Before the power grid fails, I would search out a sperm bank & take my pick of several hundred samples that would allow for the greatest possible diversity. Then I would take up residence at a solar-powered home in California, keep the potential children in an industrial freezer, and try to figure out the logistics of running a proper household by myself.
I'd probably stick near a university campus with a huge library, so I could have the proper references for any project I happened to think up. The blank slate of a world would offer plenty of opportunity for creativity. I just hope I wouldn't have to deal with the smell of rotting bodies and the rubble of complete destruction.