Message no. 1

From:	Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject:	[OT] Technological Teleportation/Energy Sources
Date:	Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:54:02 +1000

On the subject of the need for huge bandwidth for teleportation...

[From rec.humor.funny]

as long as we're on the subject.
by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 15, @**:50PM

>at 5 in the morning, an associate of mine took the time
>to compute the rough bandwidth consumed in the human
>ejaculation.
>
>the human body contains 75 megs of genetic data.
>so the sperm transmits 37.5 megs, give or take a skosh.
>100 million in a millileter,
>2.25 ml per ejaculation, average.
>
>the bandwidth works out to
>
>8.4EB/s
>8.4 * 10 to the 3rd terabytes
>8.4 * 10 to the 6th gigabytes
>
>9,019,431,321,600,000 bytes in your penis per second.
>
>that's one heck of a portscan.

[from slashdot.org, 3/15, story uncredited]
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For those of you who are interested in such things, Brad and Jim
participated
in a discussion on "email and humor", scheduled to air on NPR tomorrow,
3/17 during NPR's Morning Edition. The segment supposedly starts 21 minutes
into the first hour of the broadcast (meaning 5:21, 7:21, and 9:21 a.m.,
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