{"id":916,"date":"2003-02-05T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T05:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/05\/networking-sex\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:12:28","slug":"networking-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/05\/networking-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15350,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.everything2.com\\\/index.pl?node_id=973934&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250917115058\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.everything2.com\\\/index.pl?node_id=973934&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 17:25:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 13:43:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 13:43:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15351,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/23350&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050416141449\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/comments.mefi\\\/23350&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 17:25:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 13:43:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 13:43:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>When network engineers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everything2.com\/index.pl?node_id=973934\" title=\"Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems\">start discussing sex<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560<em>10^9^<\/em> 2 bits &#42; 2.00<em>10^8^, which comes out to be 6.24<\/em>10^17^ bits. That&#8217;s about <strong>78,000 <em>terabytes<\/em> of data<\/strong>! As a basis of comparison, were the <em>entire text content<\/em> of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts <strong>five seconds<\/strong>, you get a transmission rate of <strong>15,600 tb\/s<\/strong>. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move <strong>.005 tb\/s<\/strong>. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1\/5000^th^ of <em>that<\/em>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/23350\" title=\"Network Techs and Sex\">MeFi<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*109 * 2 bits * 2.00*108, which comes out to be 6.24*1017 bits. That&#8217;s about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb\/s. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb\/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1\/5000th of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}