Useless Fact: Each Sperm Carries 37.5 MB of DNA Data
Did you know that each sperm carries the equivalent of 37.5 MB of DNA data? Imagine the throughput of hundreds of million sperm!
I stumbled over this vital piece of information when an Austrian Facebook page announced that it would publish its Facebook Page "Unnuetzes Wissen", which translates to "Useless Knowledge" as a printed book and gave a taste of the vital information that can be found on its pages. You could learn, for example, that the 55 percent of DNA of a banana represents human DNA. Or, you will be reminded of the source of the word spam as we use it to describe unsolicited email.
However, its likely more than computer nerd will find it interesting that each sperm carries DNA worth about 37.5 MB of data. It appears that this has been common knowledge in some corners of the web, but it was certainly news to me. Apparently, that number results from the assumption that a human cell can hold 75 MB of genetic information. So, if you complete that thought and assume that an ejaculation event typically holds 200 - 300 million sperm (and yes, we know that there are fabs out there with smaller and bigger production capacities), that would be 7153 TB to 10,729 TB per ejaculation.
Of course, you can find plenty of nerd jokes on the web - the kind of jokes you may want to avoid during a romantic encounter. Do not talk about the bandwidth of your production system (apparently about 1.4 TB/s to 2.2 TB/s if you consider an uptime of five seconds and ignore potential packet loss), severed connections, upload and download speeds, data compression techniques, and do not suggest the usage of a renewable material source for future storage devices.
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There is soo many jokes you can come up with (no pun intended) around this subject alone lol.
whew!
just shot....er created 1.2TB of data.
anyone remember the jpeg "my dick has higher bandwith than xxxx" i cant find the jpeg on google, but i have it some where on my hdd, where all the math is calculated, and in school i used that as a base for a tshirt, but that project died due to teacher not having a sense of humor.
Thank you very much for adding a "Useless Fact" prefix to the article name.
You're probably shedding more DNA data through dead skin cells... (considering the time you need to shoot)
Well then I guess I found the solution to the current lack of hard drive in shops.
Time for some benchmarks.
i approve of this article! thumbs up!
cool useless fact, made me laugh knowin that
Hardware anyone?
One of the few times in a man's life when he can contribute 50% of the data with a woman and actually create something positive.
What a fact! Nice find!
Cool I am storage Machine !
Cool I am storage Machine !
hmm I mean, I'm the production facility. rolf..
Does that mean I am a Terra Byte guy?? I wonder if the stuff is reusable
The very first fiber optics devised were inside us!
2.2 TB/s
wow faster than several hundred ssd in raid
time to invent fiber sperm cable
You're probably shedding more DNA data through dead skin cells... (considering the time you need to shoot)
i dont know... im pretty fast
Bring a whole new grasp to the term... "That's a load off my mind" when you ejaculation.
What are the system requirements to execute this data?
Just Curious: Are the DNA data identical in every carrier? Or are there any differences?
Each egg on the other side, are they identical to each other too?
would like to know this too.
The bandwidth units are incorrect. It should be 1.4 PB/s and 2.2 PB/s, not 1.4 TB/s or 2.2 TB/s.
Too bad Durex and Trojan put data cap on that bandwidth.
Time to change to At&T.
So that's what was inside those "gel-packs" in Voyager (from ST: Voyager).
I already saw this joke, so it ain't funny no more (unless you're a noob). But it is kinda interesting to put our cumshot into a cybernetic perspective
Well then, I guess I am now going to alter what I say when I reach that point and just shout out 10,729 Terabytes. Now if I could just get her to use her other gateways more often...
Actually, you're out by a factor of 20
- the human genome comprises 2.9 Billion base pairs, where each base-pair is equivalent to 2-bits
- so that's about 725MBytes
Divide by two to give storage capacity of each gamete? Ok, I'll give you that one
- 362MBytes then...
So much valuable data wasted everyday across the world! We need better data management
But can it play crysis?
thanks you for the news, in these days when HDD are so damn costly this news would be pleasure for all.
Wow i got myself a 2TB thanks to sunny leone
Benchmarks ANYONE!!!!!!
Winner of HIGHEST BANDWIDTH is ????