33 sperms born from earth mother.

Florencio Avalos (above) alpha male?

There are few secular miracles in life and one of them is child birth; well not necessarily human child birth but any system of birth; I think the Panda must be the most difficult or they wouldn't have so many problems at the Chinese zoos and I would also hate to imagine the shenanigans two hedgehogs or even porcupines get up to just to have a child and male sea otters actually rape the female.

In the human being millions of sperms race towards those eggs – or is it millions of sperm? - and only one gets there and reproduces; as soon as it penetrates the egg the egg locks itself and no matter how those sperms knock on that egg the egg won't open. Can you imagine the frustration of the sperms after that huge journey swimming against the tide and gravity to be there and to be refused entry? Obviously the strongest and fastest one is the one who makes it – a bit like undocumented immigrants coming to the USA from Mexico; only the strong get in – but I digress.

If there are two eggs waiting there two sperms will be lucky and non-identical twins will be on their way to the birth canal – twins can also be born if two sperms hit that egg at the same time; if that happens the twins will be identical and they can be either sex or both as the fertilizer, the man, is the one with the female chromosome – both males and females retain one of their mother's X chromosomes, and females retain their second X chromosome from their father. Since the father retains his X chromosome from his mother, a human female has one X chromosome from her paternal grandmother (father's side), and one X chromosome from her mother.

The foetus, or the foetuses if there is more than one, gets nourished through the placenta throughout the nine months of pregnancy and the placenta feeds just the right amount of food and oxygen to each foetus – then when it is time the baby enters the birth canal and is born into this world.

When the baby is in the womb it is in a very safe place; the safest place it is every likely to be in and when it is delivered it is in another safe place but at first it needs looking after; so the journey itself from womb to the time the umbilical chord is cut is the most dangerous.

The safe place is only a safe place for a while as the feotus has to leave its very comfortable place or it will probably die.

If there are twins there is usually an alpha twin; evidence of twins in the womb reacting to each other has shown this, with one twin dominating the other.

The other day, when the capsule entered the womb of the earth where the miners were trapped, I couldn't help but think of the birth process.

There was a phallus shaped object entering the uterus of the earth and the miners gathered around to look at it; they were comfortable where they were, everything they needed had been fed to them by the very long placenta; they wore clothes suitable to the place they were in and their food was just the right amount for their dangerous journey.

Each of the miners knew it was the only way out; I can't think of a miner working underground suffering from agoraphobia but they may have been reluctant to enter the tiny capsule but as I said before their safe place is only a safe place for a while as the feotus has to leave its very comfortable place or it will probably die.

The miners were fed a very high salt diet to increase their blood pressure as a high blood pressure was needed for the journey; with high blood pressure it was unlikely that they would faint on the way up in the capsule; I think someone said if one of them had fainted on the way up it would have been fatal.

The stronger men were sent up first – the alpha male – Florencio Avalos, then the weakest and frail and then the others which included the captain who was the last to leave the ship – the afterbirth.

For a short while it would have been possible for someone from the outside to go down and look where the men had been; maybe a crazy photographer or journalist or even a scientist and I wonder if they did? Manuel Gonzalez went down first and there he is below being welcomed by the men; not much talk about that brave fella in the media.