JackGreenEarth to [email protected] • 10 months agoIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?message-square64fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down17
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?JackGreenEarth to [email protected] • 10 months agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareiAmTheTotlinkfedilink75•10 months ago4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.
minus-squaresik0fewllinkfedilink17•10 months agoIf you were restricted to just 700MM words, what would you say?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•10 months agothe other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it’s something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•10 months agoA few years ago (~2010) I had the entire German Wikipedia on my 8gb iPod touch. It was only about 4gb in size without media.
minus-squareiAmTheTotlinkfedilink13•10 months agoI don’t think you appreciate how much text you can fit into 4GB. The first entire gigabyte could be dedicated to various means of translation and explaining our language system, and you’d still have a 500 million words left after that.
minus-square@ShadowCatEXElink3•10 months agoYou can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•10 months agoSo they need to understand our colors, video codecs, displays, sound, and so much more?
4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.
If you were restricted to just 700MM words, what would you say?
Help. That’s it, that’s all I’d say
the other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it’s something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures
A few years ago (~2010) I had the entire German Wikipedia on my 8gb iPod touch. It was only about 4gb in size without media.
So you send them text that they can’t read?
I don’t think you appreciate how much text you can fit into 4GB. The first entire gigabyte could be dedicated to various means of translation and explaining our language system, and you’d still have a 500 million words left after that.
You can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.
So they need to understand our colors, video codecs, displays, sound, and so much more?
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