In a public lecture in Prague today, Martin Rees made the oft-repeated statement that biology is far more complicated than astronomy. A frog is much more complex than a star or a galaxy.
If that's so, I'd like to hire a biologist and see how they get on. :D
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Frog: 16,000,000 neurons [1]
ReplyDeletePentium III Coppermine: 21,000,000 transistors [2]
Stars in Milky Way: 300,000,000,000 [3]
Not that you can compare 1 neuron to a transistor or a star just some interesting numbers
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way