The analogy is tapes, which are even denser.
Timex
4496
Ya, but as I learned fairly recently, kids these days literally don’t know what tapes are, having never encountered them.
A few weeks ago I realized that my junior engineers did not know that we used to store data on tape… which kind of blew my mind, but was also understandable.
Also, just for fun, I grabbed my old copy of Tanenbaum’s “computer networking”…
Yeah, at work we joke about, “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a car with a trunk full of hard drives.” Typically followed by a version of, “Especially if is driving.”
CraigM
4498
Just think what the modern equivalent is.
1TB for $26. In something the size of your fingernail. How many of these can you put in a station wagon?
The answer is a lot. If you include the plastic case that includes the adapter for one of these, which mine measures 5.5cm X 3.6cm X 0.4cm, you can fit 126,262 of them in a cubic meter. My Outback has 32.5 m^3 cargo space, and 75.7 m^3 with the rear seat folded down. Which means with the rear seat down I could, theoretically, carry 9.56 million 1TB micro SD cards. That means 9.56 exabytes.
To put this in context, according to this article, my car would be able to contain enough micro SD cards with adapters and carrying case (very space inefficient in cotnext) to carry the entire amount of data that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft have. 8 times over.
How much data is on the internet? - BBC Science Focus Magazine).
CraigM
4500
I just tried replicating with my toddler, but every name came back as ‘dis caw’ preferring to point out the matchbox car he was playing with.
In Spanish, it is Arturito.
RichVR
4504
You don’t like Lemon Cello? Or Limoncello liquor?
rshetts
4507
“As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly” One of the best and most hilarious half hours of comedy ever aired on TV.
Technically the earth probably isn’t even 1% water.
So I hope he gets shot twice. For science.
tomchick
4512
He’s obviously thinking of the human body. Easy mistake to make. And even then, I don’t think the number is correct.
-Tom
RichVR
4513
Ridiculous. The human body is flat.
Gendal
4515
He was referring to just the surface, not the entire mass. For the surface it’s actually more than 70% I think.
