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This is impressive! Are the stacks of DVDs calculated with their cases or not? Slim or regular? Simple or double layers? So many questions....
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I knew people were greedy for gadgets, now they start to get greedy for more data out in the universe at large.
How many bytes in a Netflick?
Assuming 4GB/disk in a 1/4" box you get 34M miles which is the closest distance between earth and mars so they must be 8GB disks. Put them on 100 GB BluRay disks and toss the boxes and it would be 260K miles, just past the moon. Put them in a pile on a football field, it would be 1100 feet tall. Put them in the Sears tower, and you'd have some leftovers. Spread the 17B disks across the land surface of the earth (1,488,000B sq ft) and you'd have 1 disk every other acre, plenty of room for disks and people.
I didn't watch the show very often, but I saw a Star Trek: Enterprise episode where Archer traveled to the future and basically all knowledge was lost because there had been a war and everything was stored in computers. Having been in the technology field for 18 years it does scare me to think that we rely on technology so much that we could lose so much knowledge if something happened. I know its only a show, but there is some truth in it.
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