JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?message-squaremessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down16
arrow-up152arrow-down1message-squareIf you were tasked with putting together a message to send to space aliens, with the only restriction that the message had to be under 4GB, what would you send?JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squareTonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agothe other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it’s something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures
minus-squareMJBrune@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoNah, it’s 22 GB for just the current English version, text-only Wikipedia. Adding the media English current version only would be 140 GB (plus the 22 GB for the text). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia So you could do text-only Wikipedia and probably compress it. Maybe drop a few thousand of the articles that don’t matter or are stubs. Drop all the entertainment articles, etc.
minus-squarergb3x3@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago Drop all the entertainment articles, etc. Or send only the entertainment articles. Why wouldn’t the aliens want to hear about the life and exploits of Leonardo DiCaprio?
minus-squareB0rax@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoA few years ago (~2010) I had the entire German Wikipedia on my 8gb iPod touch. It was only about 4gb in size without media.
the other day I learned you can download Wikipedia and it’s something like 50 GB of text plus 50 GB of pictures
Nah, it’s 22 GB for just the current English version, text-only Wikipedia. Adding the media English current version only would be 140 GB (plus the 22 GB for the text). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
So you could do text-only Wikipedia and probably compress it. Maybe drop a few thousand of the articles that don’t matter or are stubs. Drop all the entertainment articles, etc.
Or send only the entertainment articles. Why wouldn’t the aliens want to hear about the life and exploits of Leonardo DiCaprio?
A few years ago (~2010) I had the entire German Wikipedia on my 8gb iPod touch. It was only about 4gb in size without media.