Possibly linux to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-223 days agoStar Trek systems should use IPv6message-square13fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareStar Trek systems should use IPv6Possibly linux to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-223 days agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
Ipv6 has enough addresses for all the federation planets (340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses)
minus-squarePossibly linuxOPlinkfedilinkEnglish20•23 days agoMost people vastly underestimate how many IPv6 addresses there are You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6
minus-square@jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish12•23 days ago You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6 Holy shit this is such an insane number
minus-square@cooopsspace@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-222 days agoOr each person alive could have 46 Octillion addressable devices on them. Ok maybe phone dependence has gone too far at that point.
minus-square@A_norny_mousse@feddit.orglinkfedilink3•23 days agoNow I’m curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?
minus-square@jaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish31•23 days agoWe assigned them all IP addresses and then pinged the broadcast.
minus-squarer00tylinkfedilink5•23 days agoCan you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.
minus-square@TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish2•23 days agoSo, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/865/
Most people vastly underestimate how many IPv6 addresses there are
You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6
Holy shit this is such an insane number
Or each person alive could have 46 Octillion addressable devices on them.
Ok maybe phone dependence has gone too far at that point.
Now I’m curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?
We assigned them all IP addresses and then pinged the broadcast.
Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.
So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.