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Well the missing socks have to get sent somewhere... /s
Yes, socks can turn into a lot of data really fast, especially if they are multithreaded. Which is why I only use single threaded socks to protect my dataplan.
So much for my fibre connection...
This is the same reason why you dont feed farrets string (or thread, etc...) /s
Given that one sperm has 27.5 MB of data (which means each orgasm has over 7 petabytes of information!) I think we can safely assume which socks his washer is transmitting.
Redundancy!
I believe that fluids don't, in general, compress. But maybe the trick is turning them to digital data first and then redundancy makes them very compressible.
The info in each sperm is effectively identical, so it's still only 27.5 MB of data in the whole thing, just with a lot of redundancy for error detection / correction.
SOCKS
You wouldn't download a sock
I'm too lazy to Photoshop it into a real image
I'm sure they're being downloaded to Russia and then sold back to the west to finance the war!
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