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General Category => Sex/Gossip => Topic started by: Tru on September 16, 2012, 05:39:14 AM

Title: QI
Post by: Tru on September 16, 2012, 05:39:14 AM: Each sperm contains 37.5 megabytes of information. A normal ejaculation contains 15.8 terabytes.

Thought that might be interesting.

We could all be cloned in a common laptop.
Title: Re: QI
Post by: FAH-Q on September 16, 2012, 12:46:13 PM: "This has been floating around the internet for the last couple weeks. Is it actually true or just one of the 67.3% of statistics that are made up?"

-Abe Lincoln
Title: Re: QI
Post by: Daddy on September 16, 2012, 02:16:27 PM: I was listening to The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, and there was a story about scientists discovering that the human DNA could hold 770 terabytes of data.
Title: Re: QI
Post by: mosh on September 17, 2012, 01:59:14 AM: Cope with that Western Digital!
Title: Re: QI
Post by: Thrash on September 17, 2012, 05:50:32 PM: Yeah ...
I've heard about the same ...

No one really knows ...
Title: Re: QI
Post by: Zoomie on September 18, 2012, 07:09:14 PM: I know. And I'm not tellin'. Unless you're one of my young fatties.
Title: Re: QI
Post by: Tru on September 18, 2012, 10:19:50 PM: QI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QI_episodes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QI_episodes)

I don't think they are poorly researched.

QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLb9Pv7EM2M#)
Title: Re: QI
Post by: Tru on September 20, 2012, 12:08:10 AM: Quote from: FAH-Q on September 16, 2012, 12:46:13 PM
"This has been floating around the internet for the last couple weeks. Is it actually true or just one of the 67.3% of statistics that are made up?"

-Abe Lincoln

I found a couple sites referencing that figure besides QI, and this one that breaks it down more mathematically.

http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/ (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/)
Title: Re: QI
Post by: FAH-Q on September 20, 2012, 02:51:08 PM: Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.