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Starlink's Laser System Is Beaming 42M GB of Data per Day
- slau 3y agoAlso known as 42 petabytes. Or 42 trillion kilobytes. Or 336 quadrillion bits.
- ethanwillis 3y agoIf I did the calculations right this puts starlink at roughly .32% of all internet traffic per second.
- theolivenbaum 3y agoIt's not clear if they're double counting the traffic across all the lasers in the traffic path or if it's only in and out of the laser mesh.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago42M GB really had me scratching my head.
- xhkkffbf 3y agoI like to think of this as 1.32 billion giga quarter bits myself. Quarter bits make everything bigger.
- netsharc 3y agoHow about a 1969 MG MGB? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_MGB#/media/File:MG_MGB_open_roadster_1969.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_MGB#/media/File:MG_MGB_open... Stupid headline is stupid...
- cliZX81 3y agoIf a number is too low to make a good headline, multiply it by some large number, e.g. 86400 (seconds per day), 300 million citizens, ...
- SushiHippie 3y ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39199368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39199368
- dang 3y agoThanks! Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39200323. Edit: except for the ones about the headline since the headline is fixed on the other thread.