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 View Poll Results: Could you fit the entire public Internet inside your home? I certainly could! 6 40.00% Hell no! 9 60.00% Voters: 15. You may not vote on this poll

2021-05-26, 08:57   #12
xilman
Bamboozled!

"𒉺𒌌𒇷𒆷𒀭"
May 2003
Down not across

11,027 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by firejuggler semi-revelant, xkcd again https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
I'm co-author of a paper which examined sneakernet in the context of interstellar communication.

Turns out to be very competitive indeed under a range of conditions. The bandwidth can be very large and the latency within an order of magnitude or two of that of electromagnetic signalling.

2021-05-26, 15:53   #13
The Carnivore

Jun 2010

2·127 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by kriesel Approximating the internal storage volume of a 3BR home as 2.3M high x 7M wide x 13M long x 2 floors = ~419 cubic meters (without including an attached garage), and the amount of data to be stored as 20 Zettabyte http://www.live-counter.com/how-big-is-the-internet/, we need a data storage density of 20 ZB /(419m^3) = 20,000,000,000 TB/(419m^3) ~ 48,000,000 TB/m^3. A 2TB M2 external SSD is ~10.7x3.2x1.05 cm^3 (without cabling, racking etc), so 2 TB / 3.6e-6m^3 = 556,300. TB/m^3. That's a problem, 86 times more volume per TB than available. MicroSD at 1TB, 16x12x1mm^3 is ~5.3E6 TB/m^3. Still too bulky, by about a factor of 9.2. That's for cold disconnected offline storage. If you want it online, with cabling, cooling, systems it's interfaced to, it would require considerably higher storage density devices. Cost is another matter. At ~$20/TB, it's$400,000,000,000 for the drives, assuming that the volume of purchase does not raise prices. Compare to the assets of these individuals. Allowing for growth, you're going to need ~70TB/second, and increasing at Moore's Law rates, 560,000 times gigabit fiber speed. So, I conclude an offline snapshot could be fit in a neighborhood or large warehouse, offline, but budget is a problem, as is updating.
If you're allowed to compress that info, that number becomes a lot more manageable. You could fit that data into most houses if you had the budget for all of the required hardware:
https://www.livescience.com/54094-ho...-internet.html
Quote:
 the information capacity of the world's analog and digital storage was 295 optimally compressed exabytes

2021-05-27, 07:36   #15
retina
Undefined

"The unspeakable one"
Jun 2006
My evil lair

630210 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by LaurV "Could you fit the entire public Internet inside your home?" You are a tricky guy, you want to know how big my home is.
Hah.

Well since we are looking for hidden meanings, then clearly it must be a question designed to see who is willing to claim ownership of parts of the planet. As in: can you really say it is your home?

And since I know that I own the entire planet, then it is obvious that I can fit the entire Internet inside it.

I'm still organising your first rent bills. I hope you have all been keeping something aside to pay up. It's gonna be a biggy. And eviction from the planet would not be pleasant, so you wouldn't want to forget to pay.

2021-05-27, 16:17   #16
a1call

"Rashid Naimi"
Oct 2015
Remote to Here/There

2×1,087 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by retina And since I know that I own the entire planet, then it is obvious that I can fit the entire Internet inside it.

https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLi...7%94&alt=0&tz=

Last fiddled with by a1call on 2021-05-27 at 16:20

2021-05-27, 18:55   #17
retina
Undefined

"The unspeakable one"
Jun 2006
My evil lair

2·23·137 Posts

Quote:
 Originally Posted by a1call What about the Deep-ET-web.
It will easily fit.

Have you seen the Earth lately? There are still plenty of places to store things like that.

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