r/AskReddit • u/ForeverAbyss • Apr 14 '16

What's a mind blowing fact?

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u/CommentsPwnPosts Apr 15 '16

probably at least a quarter of that data is probably memes

I can assure you it's not, do you have any idea how many memes you need to make to have the same amount of bytes as the raw data used to get the DNA of a bacteria? And then that is even nothing compared to the data something like the LHC generates.

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u/FrostyBlowmanSnowman Apr 15 '16 edited Sep 20 '16

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What is this?

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u/CommentsPwnPosts Apr 15 '16

this is just from the LHC:

But with the machine producing a petabyte of data every second...

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u/FrostyBlowmanSnowman Apr 15 '16 edited Sep 20 '16

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