super-affection

me: *nuts in a robot girl*

robot girl: Saving. Please do not remove the Memory Card (8MB) (For Playstation 2) from Memory Card Slot 1, reset or turn off the console.

foone

Objection: the average ejaculation contains 80-300 million sperm. Each individual sperm contains half the genome, which is about 800 megabytes compressed.

So your average ejaculation is 32 to 120 terabytes of data.

That would require over 10-38 million PS2 memory cards. At 2002 prices (25$ each), that is a quarter of a million to a billion dollars per ejaculation.

flynnmandrake

Okay, but that's just an assload of duplicate data. It'd make much more sense, optimisation-wise, to reconstruct the original genome from all the partial data. Wikipedia claims that the human genome can be losslessly compressed down to about 4Mb*, which fits just fine on an 8Mb memory card.

*this number is almost certainly incorrect, but I don't care enough to do more than 5 minutes of research for a Tumblr post

foone

A literal ass-load, if you will