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To: philman_36

I wonder ... how many terabytes would it take to store just the 24/7/365 video of a 90 year lifetime?


2,601 posted on 04/22/2018 1:53:33 PM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: JockoManning
how many terabytes would it take to store just the 24/7/365 video of a 90 year lifetime?

What's a DVD and how does it work?
MPEG2, a format commonly used for playing video via computer, compresses one minute of visual data into about 30 MB. So a two-minute video requires 60 MB, and a two-hour movie requires 3,600 MB. Compare that to the maximum storage space of a CD which is about 640 MB.

Do the math at that rate.
3600MB x 12 (for a day) = 43200
43200 x 365 (for a year) = 15.7 mil
15.7 mil x 90 (years) = 1.4 trillion MB?

Check my math.

2,639 posted on 04/22/2018 2:31:18 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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