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Yr alleged pub-science fact of the day:

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.

Which in turn (and I suck at math, but assuming 8 bits per byte and a total ejaculation time of 15 seconds) works out roughly to a line speed of just over 846 Terabits per second.

Speedy!

On the other hand, given that yr transferring close to 1.6PB of data to a modem that's not only designed to receive a single 37.5MB file, after which it discards every other packet, but also is protected by a multitude of firewalls (which slow down yr transmission time considerably), it’s hardly a bandwidth-efficient solution (compared to, say, Comcast).

But, you know, f*** efficiency.

So to speak.

[Insert "buffer overflow" joke here.]

DISCLAIMER:
Team Def cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the statement what started this post.

Data overload,

This is dF

on 2009-12-18 01:12 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] brangwaine.livejournal.com
That is like, WHOA.

No wonder women like to claim that men think with their members!

on 2009-12-18 04:28 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] gvdub.livejournal.com
Technically, it seems more like redundant transmission of an encrypted off-site backup copy (with not terribly accurate encryption, in many cases), which makes it even less efficient, though no less fun to do the backups, depending, of course, on IT staffing.

on 2009-12-19 08:23 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] garbagecanmusic.livejournal.com
That's it, I'm renaming "masturbation" to "redundant transmission".

on 2009-12-19 12:01 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com
Good call.

on 2009-12-19 12:02 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com
Well, we don't so much think WITH them as ABOUT them – so much so that many of us are frankly baffled to find women don't think about them nearly as much as we do.

Or something like that.

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