JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 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-squaremessage-square80fedilinkarrow-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@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square80fedilink
minus-squareiAmTheTot@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up79·7 months ago4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.
minus-squaresik0fewl@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20·7 months agoIf you were restricted to just 700MM words, what would you say?
minus-squarergb3x3@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoProbably just send them the encyclopedia brittanica
minus-squareTonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 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-squarergb3x3@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months 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-squareB0rax@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 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-squareBruceTwarzen@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·7 months agoSo you send them text that they can’t read?
minus-squareiAmTheTot@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 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-squareShadowCatEXE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 months agoYou can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.
minus-squarePantherina@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoSo they need to understand our colors, video codecs, displays, sound, and so much more?
minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoSurely Wikipedia exists in Klingon already?
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?
Surely Wikipedia exists in Klingon already?