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What is the Maximum Memory Capacity of the Human Brain?
Paul Reber, professor of psychology at Northwestern University, responded to this question submitted to Scientific American:
The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. If each neuron could only help store a single memory, running out of space would be a problem. You might have only a few gigabytes of storage space, similar to the space in an iPod or a USB flash drive. Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes). For comparison, if your brain worked like a digital video recorder in a television, 2.5 petabytes would be enough to hold three million hours of TV shows. You would have to leave the TV running continuously for more than 300 years to use up all that storage.
This is the reason i can remember all the comp. vertebrate anatomy terms each week. scooore.
“nothing’s going to change that hopeless feeling I get when you say you understand, and I know you can’t.
-circa survive
damn what a great new album.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has shown interest in the new electomechanical rifle the performance of which exceeds that of sniper weapons. The rifle was invented by a schoolboy in the city of Ufa.
Maxim Kotelnikov, an eighth-grader, designed his weapon after he had seen a TV program about the use of similar rifles in the USA and Korea. It took the boy a year to design the new weapon. He used his friend’s broken game rifle as the basis.
The rifle weighs nearly six kilos; it fires special cartridges that need to be magnetized in advance.
Russia’s Defense Ministry showed interest in the new weapon and asked the boy’s permission to test his rifle.
“This weapon is unique for it fires noiselessly. There is no shock of discharge and a shot does not produce a flare. No other sniper rifle can do it. I designed my own system, which I called the “Nucleus System,” the boy said.
Via MADDENED FOWL
Those damn Russians are always so ingenuitive.
Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera (via jkvetchy)
how can i not? too awesome & i probably watched it 19,074,190,730 times
awesome does not do this justice. beyond. way beyond.
woooow!
This mind blowing image, shows an astronaut taking a picture of himself in space. The camera and the earth reflecting in his helmet.
Definitely a myspace photo there.
Wisconsin wins my vote for originality.
A lot of American states have official state flowers, state songs, state animals, and so on… but Wisconsin looks set to break new ground by naming an official state microbe. A bill currently progressing through the state assembly would make Lactococcus lactis - the bacterium that helps turn milk into cheese - one of its official insignias.
(the more you know)
Crazy stuff. I guess they are famous for cheese, so why not be nice to the little round bacterium that has made them so famous?
