A little silly for IPv6
According to the Ace of Spades HQ blog:
IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times.
-- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
On 3/26/2014 12:28 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
According to the Ace of Spades HQ blog:
IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times.
Not with a /64 minimum allocation per customer :) Jeff
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:28:04 -0500 Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
According to the Ace of Spades HQ blog:
IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times.
-- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
I want to see HIS source of hpow many atoms are actually on the earth. Somehow, I do not think anyone knows that answer. So his comparision is a joke. Robert
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:55 PM, rwebb@ropeguru.com <rwebb@ropeguru.com> wrote: .....
I want to see HIS source of hpow many atoms are actually on the earth. Somehow, I do not think anyone knows that answer. So his comparision is a joke.
Obligatory xkcd ref: https://xkcd.com/865/
I would support THIS as a better reference than some of the other email responses I have gotten. Again comparing something like factual numbers of IPv6 addresses the the very fuzzy math of guessing how many atoms there are is very silly indeed. On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:06:15 +0000 Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:55 PM, rwebb@ropeguru.com <rwebb@ropeguru.com> wrote: .....
I want to see HIS source of hpow many atoms are actually on the earth. Somehow, I do not think anyone knows that answer. So his comparision is a joke.
Obligatory xkcd ref: https://xkcd.com/865/
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:19:14 -0400, "rwebb@ropeguru.com" said:
Again comparing something like factual numbers of IPv6 addresses the the very fuzzy math of guessing how many atoms there are is very silly indeed.
A bit of thought will show that you can probably compute this based on our estimage of the mass of the earth, which is known to be 5.97219 × 10^24 kg, and an estimate of what elements the mantle and core are made up of. http://education.jlab.org/qa/mathatom_05.html I don't think that 3 significant digits counts as "very fuzzy math"....
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:19:14 -0400, "rwebb@ropeguru.com" said:
Again comparing something like factual numbers of IPv6 addresses the the very fuzzy math of guessing how many atoms there are is very silly indeed.
A bit of thought will show that you can probably compute this based on our estimage of the mass of the earth, which is known to be 5.97219 � 10^24 kg, and an estimate of what elements the mantle and core are made up of.
This thread has gone pretty far off the rails, in terms of being on topic for NANOG. jms
Of course it is, you don't even need to think about logic to answer that one. On 3/26/2014 午後 09:55, rwebb@ropeguru.com wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:28:04 -0500 Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
According to the Ace of Spades HQ blog:
IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times.
-- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
I want to see HIS source of hpow many atoms are actually on the earth. Somehow, I do not think anyone knows that answer. So his comparision is a joke.
Robert
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