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QI 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.

Re: QI Reply #1 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

Re: QI Reply #2 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.

Re: QI Reply #3 on: September 17, 2012, 01:59:14 AM

Cope with that Western Digital!

Quote from: bagman, 04-29-2002 04:35 PM

Yeah ...
I've heard about the same ...

No one really knows ...

Re: QI Reply #5 on: September 18, 2012, 07:09:14 PM

I know. And I'm not tellin'. Unless you're one of my young fatties.

Re: QI Reply #6 on: September 18, 2012, 10:19:50 PM

QI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_QI_episodes

I don't think they are poorly researched.

QI Series A, Episode 1, Part 1

Re: QI Reply #7 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/

Re: QI Reply #8 on: September 20, 2012, 02:51:08 PM

Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.