Right now, even the people who design computers may have a hard time conceiving the need for computation power anywhere near the one TeraHertz range. I have one event in mind that would thoroughly tax the capability of such a machine. When the rapture takes place, any server hosting Rapture Ready will be inundated with traffic.
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Computation power at the terahertz range is quite useful when doing things like calculate pi, simultaneous calculations regarding multiple bodies, or creating better artificial intellegence. The rapture will require very little computational power.
Don't worry Babble. They'll leave a helpful computer/answering machine/duck(Because animals have no soul) at the keys to answer any questions you might have on what to do next.
Todd, we've already got computers in the "TeraHertz" range (since Hertz is not an acceptable measure of speed, but we've got TeraFLOPS computers too). Besides that, web serving isn't actually that computationally intensive a task, you just need lots of bandwidth. Your rapture won't generate any new need for computers if it happened, and would probably just result in your forums being innundated by people like you complaining that they hadn't been raptured yet.
"But won't all the Rapture Ready users be raptured away from their computers?"
Actually, the idea about the "automatic bot taking over when the rapture comes" gives me an idea for a prank. How hard would it be to hack the rapture ready forum and make everybody panic, thinking they missed the rapture! lol
Well, I know I'll be enjoying sitting there reading the "Why god, why?" Posts by the idiots who thought they were religious, and those of the wrong religions. Other people's suffering should lighten the load on me.
even the people who design computers may have a hard time conceiving the need for computation power anywhere near the one TeraHertz range.
"Todd", believe me: We have the need for such fast computers. We are doing SCIENCE with them.
In comparison to the bandwidth and processing power of modern scientific clusters, the meagre server which runs "Rapture Ready" is completely negligible and irrelevant. You are overestimating the relevance of your tiny internet forum by several degrees of magnitude.
An interesting take on the "they'll miss us when we're gone" fantasy.
Not clever or insightful, just interesting.
For computational power, the proper unit you're looking for is FLOPS (FLoat-point Operations Per Second). Current top supercomputers are in the PetaFLOPS (peta=1,000,000,000,000,000) range of performance.
Perhaps RR should try convincing the Guangzhou National Supercomputing Center in China to dedicate their 34 petaFLOPS Tianhe-2 supercomputer for controlling their network traffic for the end times, I'm sure the Chinese would feel honored. Although, God might have a problem with their rampant heathendom.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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