On a Wednesday 2/10/2010, Google announced its plans on implementing a revolutionary new high speed fiber network with speeds up to 1 GB per second. Simultaneously Google also issued RFIs to small sized cities in the United States of America that were interested in participating in Google's Beta run of this amazing new network. Which resulted in all sorts of campaigning by the cities. The city of Topeka, KA officially renamed itself Google for a day to catch Google's eye, a feat that was lampooned by Google this April Fools when they renamed Google to Topeka for a day. Google's "revolutionary" new network has had enough publicity without even being operational.
Now comprehend this a single sperm has at least around 37.5 MB, by some estimates, of information coded into the DNA in it. A normal ejaculation results in the release of around 6 million sperms. A simple computation brings total amount of data involved in this to an enormous 1587.5 TB. A normal ejaculation lasts about 3 seconds. Therefore an enormous amount of data is transferred at around 529.2 TBps. Also consider the physical volume that this data occupies and compare it to our conventional means of data storage i.e. HDDs, SSDs, Flash Drives, SD cards and how much data they can store. We still have a long long way to go Google.
Try to think, or rather not to, of this the next time.
More information about the Google project is up on the official Google blog post.
[P.S. Portions of this post were adapted from other sources by yours truly. He is also, in good conscience, not aware of the actual copyright holders so please do not blame him for copyright violations.]
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