[extropy-chat] rfid

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:

> Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > 
> > Anyways, the market for RFIDs is significantly larger than 1
> > billion. The number space on the chips is designed to transmit,
> > I believe, a 95 digit serial number, which approximates the
> > number of grains of sand on the planet.
> 
> There are not remotely near 10^95 grains of sand on the planet. 
> There 
> are not even 2^96 grains of sand on the planet.  This entire planet, 
> iron core and all, weighs only 10^27 grams.  There are not remotely
> near 10^95 atoms in the Solar System.

Thanks, Eli. Apparently, rfid planners are REALLY ambitious. "One ring
to rule them all" and all that jazz...

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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