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Just what kind of pervert would try to transmitt the entire Library of Congress collections, I do worry about El Reg Readership
An allied team of boffins based in Blighty, Germany, Switzerland and Israel say they have broken the record for data transmission rate from a single light source, using just one laser to send info at a blistering 26 terabits per second. "To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest line rate ever encoded onto a single …
...based on viewing times for soft core pay-per-view in hotel rooms:
13.5 minutes average viewing time. Assuming higher quality pr0n on this super electronic pathway lets round down to 10 minutes.
So every 10 minutes would require 34K tissues, ignoring wankers using a sock or underwear for the final absorbancy. Heavy loads might not only require extra capacity, but probably need less time so that should average out.
Let's call it about 200,000 per hour. (YMMV.)
This requires funding for additional study.
Good SI unit, but potential problems regarding accuracy - it makes the assumption that everything is a single-wrist job where I would presume there are some double-wrist actions going on across the country. I can't claim I'd fall into that category sadly, but I'm sure some do.
Plus, in today's PC world, you have to assume a certain amount of kilobeanflicks for every stream broadcast. Some may also only be watching for purely artistic merit, and account for no kilowrist or kilobeanflicks.
Some further detective work required I think, must switch private browsing mode on and continue...
You're forgetting that besides those watching for "artistic merit", the double-wristers are also compensated for on average by the "look Mum no hands!" mattress- and pillow-humping crowd, who don't use their wrists at all. Over all, it most likely comes out at an average of 1 wrist per individual smut hose, so the kilowrist is a valid unit within measurable accuracy.
For the uninitiated, the Reg kilowrist unit is the bandwidth required to transmit 1,000 simultaneous uncompressed 720x480 video streams.
Hey, Sarah - Would you be so kind as to ask the El Reg PTB to consolidate the various articles containing your brilliant measurement units in one piece and link to it on the Odds and Sods page? TIA
(Thumb Up icon as it is the only upstanding extremity image offered, thank goodness.)
Since distances and volumes are more easily pictured when trying to compare quantities, I'd recommend using the "production" for each Wrist unit. Since that is, on average, 5ml, such a magnificent laser could produce 174 liters of "product" per second.
For further help visualizing, that is roughly equivalent to six fire hoses.
I'm very sorry for posting this. Just not enough not to.
Perhaps the reference to the library of congress was to imply that only special people will actually be able to really use it. Then again can even the Congress' appetite for porn stretch to the bounds of this chasm. Sadly I'm probably underestimating the ability of Congress to suck the ocean dry.