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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:21:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross I did some math on this over on Twitter a while ago. The only part I remember is that given how fast the crabs walk, using them to run Doom would result in approximately one frame every 103 years

   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:21:22 JST Charlie Stross

     In 2011, researchers from Japan and the Center for Unconventional Computing in the UK asked one of the most important questions ever asked. How many crabs do you need to build a computer?

     Turns out that a carcinized computer runs on 640 crabs per byte.

     And it takes 46 megacrabs to build an Apollo Guidance Computer so that you can land on the moon WITH CRABS.

     https://www.southernfriedscience.com/everything-is-crabs-how-many-crabs-do-you-need-to-land-on-the-moon/