"Digital content on track to equal half Earth's mass by 2245"
Future b3ta candle days and Brexit/memorial bench threads threaten the planet
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 19:55,
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That's an interestingly absurd/absurdly interesting idea.
I'd hope common sense would prevail; an ecosystem and viable habitat is preferable to computer data storage.
Of course the Megabezos might have moved the ecosystem to a network of O'Neil Cylinders in orbit around Titan by then.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 20:59,
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Ah, the old “let’s assume an exponential process will continue indefinitely” idiocy.
Still, it got them some publicity. Mission accomplished!
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you're right, it could get worse than modelled
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 12 Aug 2020, 3:45,
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There was something in New Scientist about 10 or 15 years ago
where someone had set out to weigh the internet. On the basis that each bit is represented by a 1 or a 0, and that by the presence or absence of an electron, if you worked out how many bits there were in the internet, you could would out how many electrons. Since electrons are massive, you can just multiply through.
The whole internet at the time weighed about the same as a strawberry. I suspect that it's more like an bowlful now.
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But is it a living strawberry
Or a dead one? How would you know?
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Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 22:06,
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A load of bollocks really, given how we actually store data
But it does remind me of Carl Sagan estimating the equivalent weight what all radio telescopes had picked up at that point as about the same as a single falling snowflake.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 12 Aug 2020, 0:06,
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Human centipede porn edition.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 12 Aug 2020, 0:12,
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Foot porn
For the chronically isiasable insiciable isnitibable insi
FUCK SHIT
insatiable
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it's either the cat videos
or porn!!
not sure about the intersection of both groups!!
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"Using current storage densities"
Yes, because the we store data has hardly changed at all in recent times, and will surely be almost the same in 120 odd years.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 13 Aug 2020, 4:33,
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