we need teleportation frankly

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    11 months ago

    … if we could figure out scanning and printing at the atomic scale, with zero defects

    I think this is a bigger issue currently than sending large amounts of data across the globe. Though I wonder how much data a full copy would demand.

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        11 months ago

        I was getting incredibly confused because the copy/paste didn’t copy the superscript for the exponents. I was like, “there’s definitely more than 1027 atoms in the body… wait, how are there supposedly only 1021 bytes of storage in the whole world? Oooh…”

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        Now I’m wondering how long it would realistically take for that to become a not-insane demand. I know data storage multiplies pretty rapidly, but not that rapidly, so are we talking decades or centuries?