That's not even true from a data science pov, it's 99.999% redundancy and no error correcting meaning you only transfer 37.5 mb/3hrs or so, with a 0.001% error rate, except that isn't true either because the data never changes throughout your entire life so you technically have. 37.5 mb/80 years I guess this depends on how many different unique clients you are transferring to so I guess you could have somewhere around ~30,000 (made up number) unique transfers so something like a tb a Lifetime so maybe ~450 bits per second?
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So the tally whacker is the fastest telegraph?
~~Fastest if you haven't had a Data transfer in the last 3hrs and you already have a second client lined up and ready to connect.~~
Fastest if you think you can get 30,000 unique women to ~~sleep with~~* SEX you.
*There won't be time to sleep
Anyone else remember when a 32mb memory card was a big deal?
I remember when 32mb memory sticks were considered a chocking hazard.
Well yeah, but that's in RAID, so the data is very redundant and resilient to bad sectors. 👍
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If that's half of it, then a "full human" could be defined by an 80mb file?
Well, no, because we don't know how much information is in an egg cell.
The numbers in the meme are off. One sperm is 750MB, or about 1 CD, so full human is 2 CDs. Or a couple 1.4MB floppies if you only store the diff from the reference genome.
What’s the data rate on a spworm?