Or, assuming we decided to spend the same on that as on the Iraq war ($1 
trillion: 
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/01/analysis_says_war_could_cost_1_trillion/),
 
at $1 million per scope and associated lab costs, giving a million scopes
==> 10^5 sec = 28 hours.

Which is more important?

On Thursday 05 June 2008 03:44:14 pm, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> --- On Thu, 6/5/08, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/6268
> 
> Some rough calculations.  A human brain has a volume of 10^24 nm^3.  A scan 
of 5 x 5 x 50 nm voxels requires about 1000 exabytes = 10^21 bytes of storage 
(1 MB per synapse).  A scan would take a 10 GHz SEM 10^11 seconds = 3000 
years, or equivalently, 1 year for 3000 scanning electron microscopes running 
in parallel.
> 
> -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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