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Star Trek systems should use IPv6
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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Most people vastly underestimate how many IPv6 addresses there are
You could assign 100 billion addresses to each bacteria on planet Earth with IPv6
Holy shit this is such an insane number
Or each person alive could have 46 Octillion addressable devices on them.
Ok maybe phone dependence has gone too far at that point.
Now I'm curious, how do we know how many bacteria there are on earth?
We assigned them all IP addresses and then pinged the broadcast.
Can you imagine that much RA/ND chatter? Would need some serious capacity.
So, maybe Randall assumed that the nanobots had already devoured all the outer other planets completely before finally stopping with Earth.
People don't think about it cause my ipv4 still works. Well fuck ourselves when we get to that bridge.
I don't see it not working any time soon. Just pile on the NATs