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On Sun, 12 May 2013 08:41:00 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
> <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:33:52 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> >
> >>
> >> I don't answer to them. I also believe in a path of endless
> >> exponential growth. Challenge: Create more information than can be
> >> stored in one teaspoon of matter. Go ahead. Try!
> >>
> >         The coordinates of each particle storing the information in that
> > teaspoon of matter.
> 
> Which is probably more data than any of us will keyboard in a
> lifetime. Hence my point.
>
	Who'd hand enter that stuff... That's what computers are for...
Something like a scanning electron microscope to determine atom
positions...

	Of course, we then run into the problem that encoding the position
data into the scanned subject is going to change the positions <G>
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