• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!) I think we can safely assume which socks his washer is transmitting.

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      10 months ago

      Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!)

      Redundancy!

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        10 months ago

        I believe that fluids don’t, in general, compress. But maybe the trick is turning them to digital data first and then redundancy makes them very compressible.

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      10 months ago

      The info in each sperm is effectively identical, so it’s still only 27.5 MB of data in the whole thing, just with a lot of redundancy for error detection / correction.