Re: A little silly for IPv6

["Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:19:14 -0400, "rwebb () ropeguru com" said:
>
> > Again comparing something like factual numbers of IPv6 addresses the
> > the very fuzzy math of guessing how many atoms there are is very silly
> > indeed.
>
> A bit of thought will show that you can probably compute this based on our
> estimage of the mass of the earth, which is known to be 5.97219 ? 10^24 kg,
> and an estimate of what elements the mantle and core are made up of.

This thread has gone pretty far off the rails, in terms of being on topic 
for NANOG.

jms