JackGreenEarth to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 1 year 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-square79fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down16
arrow-up153arrow-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 Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 1 year agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareiAmTheTotlinkfedilink79•1 year ago4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.
minus-squaresik0fewllinkfedilink20•1 year agoIf you were restricted to just 700MM words, what would you say?
minus-square@rgb3x3@beehaw.orglinkfedilink1•1 year agoProbably just send them the encyclopedia brittanica
minus-square@TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzlinkfedilink7•1 year 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@rgb3x3@beehaw.orglinkfedilink2•1 year ago Drop all the entertainment articles, etc. Or send only the entertainment articles. Why wouldn’t the aliens want to hear about the life and exploits of Leonardo DiCaprio?
minus-square@B0rax@feddit.delinkfedilink2•1 year 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•1 year 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@ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•1 year agoYou can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.
minus-square@Pantherina@feddit.delinkfedilink7•1 year 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
Probably just send them the encyclopedia brittanica
the other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it’s something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures
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Or send only the entertainment articles. Why wouldn’t the aliens want to hear about the life and exploits of Leonardo DiCaprio?
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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