[170367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A little silly for IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Wed Mar 26 18:05:43 2014
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:00:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <10036.1395860966@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:19:14 -0400, "rwebb@ropeguru.com" said:
>
>> Again comparing something like factual numbers of IPv6 addresses the
>> the very fuzzy math of guessing how many atoms there are is very silly
>> indeed.
>
> A bit of thought will show that you can probably compute this based on ou=
r
> estimage of the mass of the earth, which is known to be 5.97219 =D7 10^24=
kg,
> and an estimate of what elements the mantle and core are made up of.
This thread has gone pretty far off the rails, in terms of being on topic=
=20
for NANOG.
jms
