Moore's law for proverbs

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    Experts Met at MIT to Discuss The Possibility of Alien Tech Around Black Holes. Here's What Was Discussed : ScienceAlert

    "It turns out that at these distance scales, if you want to transmit a zettabyte of information, it's just faster to sling your hard drive at it instead of trying to beam the information yourself."​

    seems to differ only in scale from one I knew in my early career:

    "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes."​

     
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    Black holes are indeed the universe's greatest subatomic hard drives... Stacking data in its most compacted form possible, as in every atom of the planet we live on and all its recorded history from the earliest gases and billions of years of lived experience is innevitably turned into a black hole that will be compressed down into a sphere of about 0.69 inches, yet it would still have the same weight and relative gravity as it does right now. That's heavy man, real heavy! Black holes are like the ultimate defrag utility for our universe's hard drive!
     
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