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Sending an archive of YouTube would be much more useful for any aliens that happen to drop by. YT comes far closer to The Sum of All Human Knowledge than Wikipe
by sparkzilla 10y ago
Sending an archive of YouTube would be much more useful for any aliens that happen to drop by. YT comes far closer to The Sum of All Human Knowledge than Wikipedia.
- captn3m0 10y ago20GB of disk-space would be very restrictive for video.
- sparkzilla 10y agoThe should use some middle-out compression.
- Houshalter 10y agoI'm not sure that's correct. Wikipedia contains detailed articles on many very obscure subjects. Searching for such topics on YouTube usually gives disappointing results. Wikipedia is missing some material though. A better choice might be the google book project or libgen, which contains a ton of obscure books and scientific papers. But compressing it all to 20 GB would be difficult or impossible. Much easier than compressing Youtube though.
- sparkzilla 10y agoThat's my point: They're assuming the aliens want to know about detailed, encyclopedic subjects. But what if they just want to know about Kim Kardashian?
- morgante 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kardashian That's more than anyone ever needs to know about Kim Kardashian.
- notahacker 10y agoVideo broadcasts of humans being human conveys a lot more information than a written language they don't understand (they may not even have the concept of a written language) and don't have any reference points to. Admittedly, with YouTube they might get the idea that humans communicate with each other mainly via the medium of song and that cats are sacred, but at least they'd learn something
- rtkwe 10y agoThe problem then becomes creating a simple to explain and process video and audio encoding scheme that also doesn't take up massive amounts of space. Compared to that doing the same for text is easy.
- chris_wot 10y agoWell, they'd certainly learn a lot about cats!