All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Jurassic Park Project

Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by jedberg on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @12:52PM (#40730030)

One of my favorite facts is that the average male ejaculate contains 220PB of data.

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Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by loloquwowndueo on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:02PM (#40730129)

Never underestimate the bandwidth of… (the rest is left as an exercise to the reader)

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Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by devsda on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:34PM (#40730479)

Quick search says, a single sperm contains around 787MB of data. The average speed of one of those swimmers is around 5mm/min and on an average there are around 280 million of them in the race.

Curious folks can calculate the bandwidth themselves.

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Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by bibanez on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:38PM (#40730535)

So, it will definitely _load_

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Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by daveslash on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:29PM (#40731057)

Yes, but it's more like UDP than it is TCP. TCP has acknowledgements and retries. UDP is "fire and forget".

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Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by leslielurker on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @12:58PM (#40730097)

Could liquid hard drives be the next big thing?

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Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by jedberg on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:02PM (#40730126)

Storage is only 1/2 the problem. You still have to access it in an organized way.

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Re:All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup of DNA in MIT's Ju... by croes on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:12PM (#40730199)

Total?

Then it has a lot of redundant information.

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