If 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 · 10 months ago

If 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?

iAmTheTot@kbin.social · 10 months ago

4GB is an absolute fuck ton of text. Like, solid chunk of Wikipedia would fit in there.

sik0fewl@kbin.social · 10 months ago

If you were restricted to just 700MM words, what would you say?

qooqie@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Help. That’s it, that’s all I’d say

TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 10 months ago

the other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it’s something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures

B0rax@feddit.de · 10 months ago

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.

BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · 10 months ago

So you send them text that they can’t read?

iAmTheTot@kbin.social · 10 months ago

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.

ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

You can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.

Pantherina@feddit.de · 10 months ago

So they need to understand our colors, video codecs, displays, sound, and so much more?

murmelade@lemmy.ml · 10 months ago

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