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Whales are not wales
Opinion The Science journalist has been in mind for more years, and as a result, we found the strange measurement unit fair. Human mind has very large and very small temptation that giant ice is the area with the area of the X times, and is a mountain than a hole in the plot of the Burj Khalifa’s height or Burj Khalifa than Fourth wing.
In this spirit, Christopher Dionne wrote a CNN Article About Lunar Lunar Blue Lunar Lander Sending his last message from the moon. The writer has noted, trying to convey the number of probe sent to the “120 gigabytes data gigabyte”. It is equivalent to more than 24,000 songs. “
“That thought me,” says Dionne. Today a lot of music is played, so “no matter” sizes of song files. The file size will also change depending on the compression method and the length of a song. We can surely agree Very well (10 minute version) will be slightly larger than the file She loves me – So you can’t use the songs as standardized data set.
Fortunately, a Dionne solution has been created. “Why don’t we agree on internationally agreed measurement – Blue Bale?” A Blue genome of the whale It has a 2.4 trillion basis. “So it seems that the blue ghost has sent 50 blue water blue water.”
Feedback likes the idea because we enjoy it Douglas-Adams-Esse picture A torrent of whales that hurt the moon. But we will go to Dionne’s math quibble. The basis of a genome is not the equivalent of a byte in a data set. Each byte is eight bits, and are bits that are similar to the basics. DNA is not binary, yes: there are four possible options per genome (A, C, G or T). This means that you can encode a byte using the age bit of the Biet. So multiply 8 and split 2 2, and we think the ghost blue has sent around 200 blue whales.
We encourage readers to send it, “We expect other comparative units of the digital measure of others … to communicate information scale,” and “memorable discourse”.
Goodbye, Alice and Bob
It is necessary to explain more than a few things to kill a joke. So the opinion is a bit nervous, because today, today’s event and a cryptographic joke.
Let’s start with cryptography, because we think this is a reader that he needed refreshing. When explaining how Messaging Systems works, it has become traditional to mention two main agents like “Alice” and “Bob”. For example: “How to send Alice’s secure message using Bob-I signal messaging app?”
The name uses from 1978 and they are very wide Wikipedia page. In addition to describing the history of the device, it expands a list of additional characters that can participate in these thought experiments.
Basically, if you are regular New scientist The reader will probably read Stories Alice and Bob (and their friends / friends / friends / lovers) used to explain complicated ideas in cryptography and physics. You know this. Therefore, parodies are fun.
We don’t worry about quoting the event event. It was very covered and discussed. Who knows: This is: We are writing on March 27, so depending on the time you read this, the news moves so fast these days. Maybe the US invaded Svalbard temporarily, Donald Trump forgot what he wanted the Arctic land.
Anyway, here is. Posting on Bluesky, John Vanenk Developer shared the screenshot Wikipedia on a page. It is read: “Hegseth and Waltz has found it in Article of Cryptographic and Protocols in Article” The Trump Administration has become common scientific and engineering areas as a scenario as described as a scenario, “example. Communication between Hegseth and Waltz intercepted by Goldberg. “
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What Lark
Readers Write Patrick Fenlon and Peter Slesseter to highlight the same article in GuardianHow birds migrate to navigate quantum mechanics. Apparently, the most “migrates at night, so they don’t follow anyone,” according to a biologist mentioned in the article. His name Miriam liedvogel means, of course “Songbird”.
As Fenlon put it: “wonderful.”
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