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Comment Too little (Score 2) 35

19 meters in diameter? Nah, not worth naming it

GatGPT5:
Short answer: a 19-meter asteroid is “Chelyabinsk-class.” It almost certainly explodes high in the atmosphere (an airburst) rather than making a crater. Think spectacular fireball, a very loud shock wave, lots of broken windows—and mostly local damage.

Comment Re:Noah: (Score 1, Informative) 53

I did not, but ChatGPT 4o did and explained it to me:

ChatGPT said:
The joke "Noah: What's a qubit?" plays on the similarity in sound between "qubit" (a concept from quantum computing) and "cubit", an ancient unit of measurement famously used in the biblical story of Noah’s Ark.
Here’s the breakdown:
In the Bible, Noah is instructed to build the Ark with specific dimensions given in cubits.
A cubit is a historical unit of length, roughly the length of a forearm (about 18 inches).
A qubit, on the other hand, is a quantum bit, the basic unit of information in quantum computing.

Comment Re:Bitcoin (Score 2) 52

Try barcodes or QR printed with a laser printer on plain paper.
This should have more longevity (hundreds of years?) than any floppy disk (ten, twenty years?).
Don't forget to keep the barcode/QR software source code printed on paper, too ;)

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