From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 16:17:50 MDT
> > Samantha wrote:
> > The data density would be ridiculous. Non-starter.
Let's see...there are about 6 gigapeople on the planet, and it
takes less than 32 bits the store a location on the Earth's
surface to around meter resolution, and you'd probably want
updates at around .1-second resolution, so the total possible
raw incoming data stream would be on the order of 200 Gb/sec.
Conveniently, most of those 6 gigapeople are stationary for
long periods of time, and they tend to cluster themselves
neatly into a few thousand clumps, so data compression would
probably get you down into the 100 Mb/sec range, which seems
well within the bounds of even present technology.
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