Useless information of the day

[moshquerade]

Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems

The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long, so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000 base pairs.

Each side of these base pairs can either be an adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can be aligned either direction, so there are four choices. Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine, and so forth.

The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million. I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells, but if anyone knows differently, please tell me.

Putting these together, the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th of that.

If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come out much differently. If only the single sperm cell that fertilizes the egg counts as signal, you get (1.560*109 * 2 bits) / 5 s = 6.24*108 bits/s, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 Mb/s. Still a great deal more bandwidth than your average cable modem, but not nearly the 5,000,000 Mb/s of the OC-96.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=973934

 

[Agentbolt]

Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

yes. pretty obvious, isn't it.

 

[FoBoT]

this either belongs in highly technical or the pervert forum


$0.02

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

15??? That's all??? The avg is now 50!

 

[shortylickens]

Thats nice but useless.

Its like the "fact" that if you could annihilate a human beings body you would have enough energy to power New York for a year.

When we finally figure out how to directly convert matter to energy with 100% effienciency, we arent going to be bothered by such trivial things anymore. We will enter a whole new era of civilization and such mundane issues wont even be remembered anymore.

 

[nboy22]

Maybe we should build internet 2 with penises. But then again we might have to hire people to push the data if you know what I mean.

 

[markgm]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[neegotiator]

Originally posted by: nboy22
Maybe we should build internet 2 with penises. But then again we might have to hire people to push the data if you know what I mean.

Mr. Wongburger from aqua teen hunger force can probably help provide the supplies needed.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Ph34r my l337 e-pen0r!!!1111!!111!!!

 

[Jeff7]

"Dammit, my modem's gone down today - and I'm jealous."


No, no, anyway.


"Dammit, my modem's gone down today, yet I feel a powerful urge to post to Anandtech. Hmm, I wonder if this will do anything if I plug it into the coax cable....AAAAUUGGGHHH OH GOD IT HURTS!!!! Hmm, that didn't work, seems I need some sort of Sperm to Electron Modulator and Emitter Node, to provide a better user interface, and transcode the data signal."

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

15 GB = .014648 TB = .0000187794872% of normal ejaculate

Either your penis is .00000112676923" long or you have a vagina. Good luck!

 

[Agentbolt]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

15 GB = .014648 TB = .0000187794872% of normal ejaculate

Either your penis is .00000112676923" long or you have a vagina. Good luck!

I meant to say "15 gigs into your hair before you woke up and received the other 1000 terrabytes on your shocked but not entirely unhappy face" Sorry for the confusion! Zing!

 

[Jeeebus]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

15 GB = .014648 TB = .0000187794872% of normal ejaculate

Either your penis is .00000112676923" long or you have a vagina. Good luck!

If I had a vagina I wouldn't be wasting my time neffing on this forum. I'd be slutting it out to guys like me.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Jeeebus

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Mine has some SERIOUS bandwidth, I managed to upload at least 15 gigs into your hair last night while you were sleeping.

You're really bored today, aren't you Mosh?

15 GB = .014648 TB = .0000187794872% of normal ejaculate

Either your penis is .00000112676923" long or you have a vagina. Good luck!

If I had a vagina I wouldn't be wasting my time neffing on this forum.

let me guess, you would never leave your bedroom

 

[amdhunter]

My modem only works for about 2 minutes a day. The rest of the time it's down. I reboot it all the time too.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

I'm certain most of the sperm are the same except for a few thousand bits here and there. So maybe it is only appropriate to measure the variance. In any well designed system the application wouldn't continue to send the same redundant data 200 million times it would only send the variances.

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: amdhunter
My modem only works for about 2 minutes a day. The rest of the time it's down. I reboot it all the time too.

Is it a soft reboot or a hard reboot?

 

[invidia]

I only have a 56k modem with AOL 3.0

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems

The human genome is about 3,120,000,000 base pairs long, so half of that is in each spermatozoa -- 1,560,000,000 base pairs.

Each side of these base pairs can either be an adenine-thymine or a guanine-cytosine bond, and they can be aligned either direction, so there are four choices. Four possibilities for a value means it can be fully represented with two bits; 00 = guanine, 01 = cytosine, and so forth.

The figures that I've read state the number of sperm in a human ejaculation to be anywhere from 50 to 500 million. I'm going to go with the number 200,000,000 sperm cells, but if anyone knows differently, please tell me.

Putting these together, the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That's about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th of that.

If you consider signal to noise, though, the figures come out much differently. If only the single sperm cell that fertilizes the egg counts as signal, you get (1.560*109 * 2 bits) / 5 s = 6.24*108 bits/s, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 78 Mb/s. Still a great deal more bandwidth than your average cable modem, but not nearly the 5,000,000 Mb/s of the OC-96.

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=973934

I tested your theory by plugging my penis into my router.


It hurt.