On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:42:28 -0700 Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 04:08:14AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> 20 meters on a side, weigh more than 10,000 metric tonnes, >> and take 530 years to read. > >530 years ... if Columbus hadn't destroyed the paper tape >reader he discovered when he landed on Cuba in 1492, and >turned it on instead, it might still be reading its >terabyte hoard of paper tape, punched with 200 centuries >of pre-Columbian history, and finishing in 2022. :-) Setting down the issue of Analog that I was reading ... A great premise for an alternate realty sci-fi story. :)
