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> That's only 5.5GB 6 billion bits = 0.75 GB. I wonder how compressible it is, on top of that. Another thought: two humans are 99.9% identical, so a diff is o
by philh 16y ago
> That's only 5.5GB
6 billion bits = 0.75 GB. I wonder how compressible it is, on top of that.
Another thought: two humans are 99.9% identical, so a diff is only 0.75 MB. Multiply by an estimated 6.79 billion world population. 5 billion MB = 5 petabytes. Google has enough hard drives to store the firmware to every human being in the world.
- someperson 16y ago> I wonder how compressible it is, on top of that. You can download a copy from Wikipedia and get back to us :-)
- bh42 16y agoWell.... proteins play an important role in how DNA is expressed. And you get your initial set of proteins, like your DNA, from your parents (mom mostly), so they set the starting conditions. Then during your life what you do has a methylation effect on your DNA. Thus the total information that makes up a human is actually quite a bit bigger then the information contained in his or her DNA.