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Comment by colordrops

1 year ago

If you've got a laptop with a terrabyte drive, it would be 42,000 full laptops worth of data.

Implementing a “comparable operation” to this satellite network using laptops instead is going to be really expensive fuel-wise, I think.

  • "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

    -- Andrew Tannenbaum