A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB.
– from Reddit
Of course, one could claim that the majority of that is duplicate data, so really the transfer rate is much lower, with lots of effort to make sure the data is not lost. It’s also encoded information, so with the right algorithm one could decode it and get a lot more data out of it. Of course, one usually doesn’t think of a fertile woman and 18 years of child-rearing as an algorithm, but there you have it.
-c
“Of course, one usually doesn’t think of a fertile woman and 18 years of child-rearing as an algorithm, but there you have it. ”
Algorithm? No. Allegory? Yes.
But any way you look at it, 1600 TB’s is hard to swallow.
Seems like it would lend itself well to compression. “Hey, come here and unzip this, I want to show you how it can expand.” Something like that…
Geez. You guys make ejaculate sound so seedy.
Not really, it just grew into this.
That’s swell.
Are you trying to make this hard on me?
Well, if one of us is going to go down, it aint me!
I believe it is referred to as parity.
I believe this debate has moved to the Face/Failbooks: here.