A single sperm has 37.5 MB of DNA information in it.

That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of about 1,587.5 TB.

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  4. datn reblogged this from willzone and added:
    Yeah, but if you dedup it, it’s probably still about 40MB.
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    I originally posted:...got some really interesting responses from the two people I know...
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    Actually sperm are haploid cells, meaning they only contain half of the genome, this prevents an exponential doubling in...
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    But wait! Remember that 750,000,000 bytes do not always equal 750 MB, because in computing we often (aka in Windows)...
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    I’m on a biological truth rampage. This is commonly misunderstood… A sperm has an entire copy of the human genome The...
  17. benbeecher reblogged this from alligatortower and added:
    Thats 1.587 PB! Also my cum’s so pooled it’s in ZFS
  18. jsdillon reblogged this from maxistentialist and added:
    that information is redundant. You need to .zip it up before you fill up some poor girl’s hard drive… That was terrible.
  19. zyxst reblogged this from dariuswhiteplume and added:
    That explains why men are so stupid right after they cum.
  20. dariuswhiteplume reblogged this from dxo and added:
    Good thing I have broadband. ba-dum-DAH! Wait… That sounds like I’m downloading. :-\ —DW
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