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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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