...to break world information transmission record?
Quote:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Chiyoda Ward,
Tokyo, President and CEO is Norio Wada) has successfully demonstrated the
ultra-large capacity optical transmission of 14 Tera bits per second (Tera
is one trillion) over a single 160 km long optical fiber. The value of 14
Tbps (111 Gbps x 140 ch) greatly exceeds the current record of about 10
Tbps and so claims the record of the world's largest transmission
capacity.
To whoever 14 terabits per seconds seems big, it's not. If you throw
200Gb HDD, and it is flies through the air for about 1 second, when another
nerd catches it, the total information transmission speed will be 200 *
1e-3 * 8 = 1.6 terabits per second. But this is not what a b0gger would
find interesting, right? Besides, breaking a record this way may turn out
somewhat expensive, so here is what you could do instead.
Human genome has 3 120 000 000 complementary pairs, half of that is in your
sperm - 1 560 000 000. Every pair is either A-T or G-C, and also can have
one of two directionsso we have 4 possible values, or 2 bits. The number of
sperm cells wasted when you jerk off, ranges from 50 to 500 millions (we
will use 200 000 000 in our calculations). An average time of male orgasm
is about 5 seconds. Total amount of information transmitted over these 5
seconds is 1.56e9 * 2e8 * 2 bits, so our typical performance is 124 800
terabits per second. That is much better, and much more fun to do.
The author of this idea (someone nicknamed Kamichu) probably holds
unofficial world information transmission champion title, but do not let
that stop you from trying to beat the record. You can do it, go champ!
posted by makc on Friday 7th December 2007, 07:05:22
Yeah, but I think you end up transmitting mostly the same information in
each... er... "packet", so the actual useful information
throughput is lower. I'm not a biologist though.
Are you fast enough to...
