@vagina_museum My only explanation for the elephant part of this story is that the poor thing displayed stress behavior caused by the facilities.

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please tell me that N. Prize was for something else. Anything else.
That machine was a torture device.

@vagina_museum i wonder if it's coincidence that a few years later Heinlein described childbirth on a spaceship being assisted by a well-timed sudden increase in the artificial gravity field. (The birthing position was not supine though.) I'm sure he was trying to be helpful or modern or something, but, oh my. Of course this was Time Enough For Love and it was probably one of the less-problematic things in it for a modern reader. I'm guessing because I don't dare read it again in this century…

@vagina_museum I got pretty far without cracking up, but the net and the attached visualization got me good.

@vagina_museum it's a shame. This could have reduced parental stress of naming the baby. Just have a list of your favourite names printed on the outer circle and at the location the baby flies out… tadaaa, it 'chose' its own name.

@vagina_museum It appears that someone wrote an opera about this (?!), entitled “The Blonsky Device”

http://www.henryakona.com/the_blonsky_device.html

@vagina_museum YEET THE FOET(us)

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Sees the design for a centrifugal birth machine...
Immediately starts taking copious notes

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I don't know whether I should stop laughing and start crying.
🤣🤣🤣😱

@vagina_museum makes you wonder why they didn’t try to register patent on birth by bungee jump