Wikipedia to the Moon

#1

Post by chris_wot » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 3:18 PM UTC

Wikipedia to the Moon
meta.wikimedia.org

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

#2

Post by learc83 » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 3:56 PM UTC

The deadline for the Lunar X Prize is next year, and according to wikipedia one of the teams has a launch contract with SpaceX. Does SpaceX have a rocket capable of making it to the moon?

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

#3

Post by sparkzilla » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 3:57 PM UTC

Sending an archive of YouTube would be much more useful for any aliens that happen to drop by. YT comes far closer to The Sum of All Human Knowledge than Wikipedia.

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

#4

Post by captn3m0 » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 4:01 PM UTC

sparkzilla wrote: post #3

Sending an archive of YouTube would be much more useful for any aliens that happen to drop by. YT comes far closer to The Sum of All Human Knowledge than Wikipedia.

20GB of disk-space would be very restrictive for video.

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

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Post by martindevans » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 4:03 PM UTC

learc83 wrote: post #2

The deadline for the Lunar X Prize is next year, and according to wikipedia one of the teams has a launch contract with SpaceX. Does SpaceX have a rocket capable of making it to the moon?

It looks like a falcon 9 can get payloads to TLI: http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8511/how-will-the-f...

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

#6

Post by JoeDaDude » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 4:09 PM UTC

They should team up with the Time Capsule to Mars project (http://www.timecapsuletomars.com/) which ostensibly will use quartz storage technology to send millions of photos to Mars. If the quartz memory is for real, it should be able to store Wikipedia.

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

#7

Post by johngossman » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 4:15 PM UTC

The FAQ is much more illuminatng then the main page: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/FAQ

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

#8

Post by Houshalter » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 4:20 PM UTC

They have 20 GB? I downloaded the entire English wiki 4 years ago (just the text of articles, not photos) and it was 12 GB.

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

#9

Post by sparkzilla » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 4:22 PM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #4

sparkzilla wrote: post #3

Sending an archive of YouTube would be much more useful for any aliens that happen to drop by. YT comes far closer to The Sum of All Human Knowledge than Wikipedia.

20GB of disk-space would be very restrictive for video.

The should use some middle-out compression.

Re: Wikipedia to the Moon

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

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