If a male has an orgasm, what is the transfer rate of the sperm in bits per second?

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TsuR

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I was wondering, sperm must contain data. So what is the transfer speed of that data when a man ejaculates. Is this faster then gigabit?
 
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AdamW

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The average human male produces 500 million sperm per ejaculation. Even if each individual sperm was more than 2 bits, it would exceed a gigabyte.

Just for fun, I crunched the numbers. There are an estimated 6 billion base pairs in the human genome. Because each base is one of 4 options, a base is equal to 2 bits, so if you ejaculate 500 million sperm * 6 billion base pairs/sperm * 2 bits/base pair, you get roughly 666 petabytes of information. (A petabyte is a thousand terabytes, and a terabyte is a thousand gigabytes)
 
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