From Terry M. I don't know if it's true, but I found it humorous in a geeky way.
Obviously taken from a chat session.
[hypnosis] 1. The human cell contains 75 MB of genetic information
[hypnosis] 2. A sperm 37.5 MB.
[hypnosis] 3. In a milliliter, we have 100 million sperms.
[hypnosis] On average, one ejaculation releases 2.25 ml in 5 seconds.
[hypnosis] Using basic math we can compute the bandwidth of the human male penis as:
[hypnosis] (37.5MB x 100M x 2.25)/5 = (37,500,000 bytes/sperm x 100,000,000 sperm/ml x 2.25 ml) / 5 seconds = 1,687,500,000,000,000 bytes/sec = 1,687.5 TerraBytes/sec
[Jck_true] Sweet
[Jck_true] DoS attack!!!
[hypnosis] a bukkake would probably be a DDoS then
[hypnosis] 11 men would give 17 petabytes/sec
Until next time...
Alexander commented on November 19, 2008 at 8:54 am:
But don't all the sperm contain the same genetic data? So while you're transmitting 1.6 TB of data, wouldn't the overwhelming majority of it be redundant?
Or have I forgotten something since college biology?
Erik Rubright replied to Alexander on November 19, 2008 at 1:46 pm:
Redundancy would be good, especially in a DoS attack. It's still about the quantity of data transmitted, not necessarily the quality of the data itself.
But technically I know not of such things....
moby commented on November 19, 2008 at 4:43 pm:
Ok, my inner geek loved this. hehehe
Alexander ~ A DDOS attack isn't about the data being transmitted but the amount of data.
Erik Rubright replied to moby on November 20, 2008 at 1:46 pm:
I'm glad I could help make your inner geek a little happier.
matthew thompson commented on November 19, 2008 at 9:07 pm:
Just making sure we are talking about data... uh... and not penis size right?
Erik Rubright replied to matthew thompson on November 20, 2008 at 1:47 pm:
It's ALL zeroes and ones eventually.
the replicant commented on November 20, 2008 at 12:26 am:
1,687.5 TerraBytes/sec of (nearly) identical messages sounds a lot like spam to me.
Erik Rubright replied to the replicant on November 20, 2008 at 1:47 pm:
That it is... and it's about as tasty as Spam too!
cb commented on November 20, 2008 at 12:27 pm:
Does the bandwidth still count if you swallow?
Erik Rubright replied to cb on November 20, 2008 at 1:48 pm:
Only if an ACK was sent...