You mean each women all producing parts of the baby one then one women/machine putting all the parts together?

egeozcan 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In the future, because of bad things we did to the atmosphere and stuff, miscarriages are the common ending of a pregnancy, instead of being the exception. One evil company finds a way to accelerate the process by using 10 women, lowering the chances of miscarriage simply by reducing the time in womb.

I thought, something like a medication helping the women develop the baby in 30 days, but seriously damages the host in a couple of days, so the fetus gets transferred from host to host. Some die, but the evil rich don't care. Your idea could also work though.

I realize that this is totally the wrong corner of the internet to post this but I guess today I'll just go with it.

	▲	lukan 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, that plot might actually work and is more believable than mine. (some women actually do feel like a baby is a parasite growing inside them - this would be a extreme version of it)
	▲	eru 18 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As a prediction, it doesn't sound particularly likely. As a premise for science fiction, it sounds like it might be interesting.

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croon 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm too bad of a writer to be scared of giving my ideas away, but I'd explore a pupae stage, where (layman disclaimer, if it isn't abundantly clear from my incoming butchering of the science) the butterfly is basically melted down into a goop with no "brain part" or "feet part" of the goop existing until reformed, yet retain their memories. If you divided that goop up and imagined there was a gestation time reduction, before combining it for the final stage of formation, you'd have some "plausible" (loose definition here) venue for it.

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eru 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Interestingly, real butterflies don't turn into goop, that's more of an 'urban legend'. Nature's more interesting than that.

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croon 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks for the clarification. I'm very happy with my disclaimer then.

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marcta 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't leave it on a cliffhanger, what really happens?

	▲	lukan 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is a goop. They basically eat themself, except for some predefined core parts, which will then use the rest to grow and connect.

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KellyCriterion 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dont say this too loud... :-X

If humanity lives long enough, someonen will came up with this idea and implement it?