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You'll have to wait 6000 years to see it on YouTube: 1500 for them to hear about YouTube and 4500 for them to upload (assuming TCP)
by qq66 11y ago
You'll have to wait 6000 years to see it on YouTube: 1500 for them to hear about YouTube and 4500 for them to upload (assuming TCP)
- Zelphyr 11y agoSheesh. I can't believe after 6000 years TCP is still in use.
- angersock 11y agoAt least 25% of it will be over IPv6!
- rogeryu 11y ago> At least 25% of it will be over IPv6! We probably will need IPv10 to connect all the dots in the sky!
- tempestn 11y agoActually no! Estimates I found are of around 10^23 stars in the universe. There are over 10^38 IPv6 addresses, so even if there were tens of inhabitable worlds per star and billions or even trillions of addresses per world, we'd have enough! (Although it is possible that stars number is a significant underestimate.)
- p1mrx 11y agoIPv6 only has space for 10^19 networks, so you would need to heavily chop up /64s if you wanted to number the universe. But IP is not designed for high-latency networks, so this only really matters if FTL communication is invented.
- catshirt 11y agoInternet of Stars™
- xg15 11y agoMaybe even as much as 26%, who knows...
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoThat might be the funniest thing I've ever read on HN.
- esolyt 11y agoFor a second I thought I was on reddit.
- joshmn 11y agoI was beginning to think we collectively lost our sense of humor. There is hope. Now quick, someone post a cat pic and a relevant gif. Edit: Not complaining about the downvotes, but guys, this is the internet, not work. Loosen up. Smile for once. It's good for you, and confuses people.
- tatterdemalion 11y agoIt seems like UDP is probably a better protocol for this use case.
- fao_ 11y agoUntil a gamma beam disrupts the connection and you miss the best part, that is!
- ryangittins 11y agoI've got a really good joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
- mratzloff 11y agoThat's fine. I've got a great joke about TCP, and I'll just keep telling it to you until you get it. I'll just speak slower each time...
- lucaspottersky 11y agoROFLMAO I got it, I got it... so I think I'm TCP? :P
- xjia 11y agono redirect to https?
- a3n 11y agoIt would go faster if they loaded a bunch of usb sticks in a station wagon and shot the wagon across space.
- qq66 11y agoOnly if they can average 0.25c, which seems unlikely :)