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If multiple terabytes, you can store a lot of information. All Wikipedia is only 21.23 GB compressed as of 21 September 2022. The English Books from Gutenberg L
by julienmarie 4y ago
If multiple terabytes, you can store a lot of information. All Wikipedia is only 21.23 GB compressed as of 21 September 2022. The English Books from Gutenberg Library are around 40GB.
With 1TB, you have already a pretty solid base to rebuild civilization.
Then you can go deeper:
As of last year, all Library Genesis for nonfiction is 40 TB and Scientific Papers are 78.5 TB. Total Library Genesis seems to be 220TB.
Finally, you can go bigger:
The total size of archive.org seems to be around 212 PetaBytes. That's some serious storage required.
If I had only one floppy disk, it would be a selection of philosophy books from Socrates, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, La Boetie, Kant, Spinoza, Descartes, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein.
- silisili 4y agoGreat list. Perhaps a stupid question - does that Wikipedia number include photos? If not, what kind of overhead does that add?
- julienmarie 4y agoThat would be the Wikidata Wikicommons dataset. It's 375 TB (source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q565 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q565 ). Including also audio, etc...
- silisili 4y agoThanks. That makes me feel silly...I had no idea so much media existed on Wikipedia, nor that it had enough text to fill that many GB alone.
- lossolo 4y agoEnglish Wikipedia is only about 89GB with pictures included and 46GB without. You can download here newest version: https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/ https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/ I've maxi version with images on my Pi and it works locally without internet access. I've also backup in a faraday cage. Then you can explore it using https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/
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- michelb 4y agoWe have to make room for plenty of kitten videos though.
- ASalazarMX 4y agoI hear kittens are always ready to make more kitten videos, as long as kittens survive we can rebuild those from scratch.
- waste_monk 4y agoI recall reading somewhere in the event of an apocalypse you'd need at least ~150 breeding pairs of humans to be able to recover (I think that's with no safety margin either), and it would take generations of careful management to prevent inbreeding and genetic weirdness. I wonder how many cats you'd need? I would think it would be much higher as I assume superfecundation would drastically increase the risk of inbreeding.