Nopy's Blog

Despite how much I like anime, I’ve never been a big fan of incredible events with no viable scientific explanation. This includes things like flying through the air with no apparent form of propulsion, creating vast quantities of energy from nothing, and penetrating the armour of a vehicle using a weaker material by using shear willpower. This is one of the reasons why Martian Successor Nadesico was and still is one of my favourite anime: it used the latest theories of quantum mechanics and newest technological advancements of the 90s to explain how things like instant transport and the terraforming of Mars was possible. When there was no way to explain something (like the generation of particles to perform a gravity blast), the topic was simply avoided rather than trying to make up something fake and untrue.

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So while I was watching episode 7 of Seitokai no Ichizon, there was one scene where they started going through what each of the girls was taking with them on a trip to Tokyo. They covered 4 very different types of travel luggage, my favourite was Mafuyu’s:

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Most of you otaku out there probably know what a hikikomori is, but if you don’t you can read up on them at Wikipedia. So since I don’t really know anyone in this city (besides people from work) and my landlord leaves me alone most of the time, I thought I’d try living like a hikikomori for a weekend to see what it was like. Don’t ask me why I decided to try being a hikikomori, I don’t really know myself. Maybe it was because of curiosity or boredom, or maybe a bit of both.

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Anyone who’s been following Natsu no Arashi knows by now that time travel within the show happens on a regular basis, but there’s an important question that Hajime brings up: what happens when you go back in time and change history?

When Hajime and Arashi go back in time to save someone, do the people who are saved just suddenly pop into existence in the present or did they exist even before anyone went back in time?

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Well, after five episodes, Touma finally figured out that there’s no way Index’s brain would explode (or implode?) because she has too much stuff memorized. I admit that I didn’t think anything about Index having too much information, but that was only because this is anime.

So after watching this episode, I started wondering how much information the brain could hold. From my high school days, I learned that we only use about 10% of our brains and that geniuses still only use a maximum of 15%, but this information was for processing power rather than information storage. A search on google for brain capacity turned up results ranging from 100MB (~10^8 bytes) to 10^8432 (that’s a 1 followed by 8432 zeroes). With such a wide range of predictions, it’s obvious that no one knows how much information the brain can hold. (more…)