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DavidD
Earth consist of about 10^50 atoms so I think 10^40 bits is prety enough. Bits or bytes is alsmost the same so vote what you understand if you are stupid. 10^15 Bytes is 1000 TB. This amount of information already exist in supercomputer, servers... But I am asking how much bits can be after 500-1000 milions years in our civilization then it will be close to thermal deaf, becouse of expansion of Sun. So how much bits in all working computer will be stored on Earht?
Alcari
WHAT?!
please try again in english...


All I understood is
QUOTE
Bits or bytes is alsmost the same

Which is a blatant lie.
A bit is a pulse of either 1 or 0 (on or off) in an electrical system.
A byte is a combination of bits, generally 8 in your home systems, that form a single character.

generally 8 bits = 1 byte.
Dr Fred A Wolf
QUOTE (DavidD+Jun 13 2008, 06:48 PM)
Earth consist of about 10^50 atoms so I think 10^40 bits is prety enough. Bits or bytes is alsmost the same so vote what you understand if you are stupid. 10^15 Bytes is 1000 TB. This amount of information already exist in supercomputer, servers... But I am asking how much bits can be after 500-1000 milions years in our civilization then it will be close to thermal deaf, becouse of expansion of Sun. So how much bits in all working computer will be stored on Earht?

Shocking hogwash; this idiot is clearly far dumber than his illiteracy suggests.

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