JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 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-square84fedilinkarrow-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 · 9 months agomessage-square84fedilink
minus-squareBruceTwarzen@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·9 months agoSo you send them text that they can’t read?
minus-squareiAmTheTot@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up13·9 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-down1·9 months agoYou can also get 2-3 movies worth with 4gb depending on its length and quality. Maybe even more.
minus-squarePantherina@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoSo they need to understand our colors, video codecs, displays, sound, and so much more?
minus-squaremurmelade@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 months agoSurely Wikipedia exists in Klingon already?
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?