Hmmm…Never thought of it, but seems reasonable; although I have to admit that the other 10 trillion cells are just repetitive copies of a single cell. This does bring the total amount of GB data stored in the human body down.
Amazing website also…I have been forwarded to it from the forbes.com blog and like it a lot. Hope to visit it regularly also.
Lidiya – interesting opinions and thanks for visiting! I kinda understand what you mean about the 10 trillion other cells, but I’m wondering why you think that makes it all that less impressive. My bet is that we’re going to find out that the dna content in our cells aren’t all the 100% same. Through mutations and epigenetic changes that ‘same’ code can be interpreted much differently.
Thats just mind-boggling! Why and how could it assemble itself ? Even if it assembled itself slowly, how would it know what was and wasnt a mistake ? It makes me have to believe in God.. thats just awesome!
Assuming that the minimum amount of information to define a fully grown body is less than that in the single cell from which it originated we can conclude that once the technology for diss-assembly and re-construction is developed a capsule for low energy rapid “pseudo” teleportation could be much smaller than the nucleus of a human cell. Especially since the chromosomes are 2/3 protein and only 1/3 DNA.
Actually human teleportation is possible without dis/reassembly using transdimensional technology. The tricky part is choosing when and where to send the information, given that both start and end point are in motion.
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Holy crap! Awesome.
Hmmm…Never thought of it, but seems reasonable; although I have to admit that the other 10 trillion cells are just repetitive copies of a single cell. This does bring the total amount of GB data stored in the human body down.
Amazing website also…I have been forwarded to it from the forbes.com blog and like it a lot. Hope to visit it regularly also.
Lidiya – interesting opinions and thanks for visiting! I kinda understand what you mean about the 10 trillion other cells, but I’m wondering why you think that makes it all that less impressive. My bet is that we’re going to find out that the dna content in our cells aren’t all the 100% same. Through mutations and epigenetic changes that ‘same’ code can be interpreted much differently.
You can calculate how much data is stored in a given amount of Kg of Human tissue here: http://parascientifica.com/humandata.php
The amount of data in one Kg is:
Data in exabytes = 868
To give you an idea, this is equal to:
273,066,666,666,667 mp3’s,
198,581,560,284 dvd’s and
37,333,333,333 Blu-ray disks!
wow i would never of thought that 10 trillion cells are in a single cell omg !!!!!!
Thats just mind-boggling! Why and how could it assemble itself ? Even if it assembled itself slowly, how would it know what was and wasnt a mistake ? It makes me have to believe in God.. thats just awesome!
Assuming that the minimum amount of information to define a fully grown body is less than that in the single cell from which it originated we can conclude that once the technology for diss-assembly and re-construction is developed a capsule for low energy rapid “pseudo” teleportation could be much smaller than the nucleus of a human cell. Especially since the chromosomes are 2/3 protein and only 1/3 DNA.
Actually human teleportation is possible without dis/reassembly using transdimensional technology. The tricky part is choosing when and where to send the information, given that both start and end point are in motion.