The IT Crowd
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3:01 · 5M views · Mar 17, 2009
In an IT Crowd episode clip, Moss and Roy convince Jen that the internet is a small black box. She believes it and carries it around.
It is used as a recurring joke whenever threads touch on the internet as a physical thing, and sometimes praised as a favorite sitcom.
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One of my absolute favourite shows. what a gem - this video . Also one of the best bits in my opinion - [LINK] . For those who have never indulged - Enjoy :-)
Fundamentally, a large "do not unplug" sign is just like any other failsafe system. Nuclear missile silos, probably the most "do not touch this switch" systems in existence, are only slightly more refined, and have red covers over all the important switches instead. The alternative is to epoxy the keyboard in. But then when you legitimately need to unplug it, you need to find a hammer. As an aside, that XKCD strip feels heavily inspired by an episode of the IT Crowd [1] [1] this video
While total angular momentum is certainly conserved in any rotationally invariant system (read: Earth + space elevator + objects traveling upwards + atmosphere), the situation only for an object traveling to space in the elevator is different: Angular momentum is given by L = I * ω where I is the moment of inertia and ω is the angular velocity. Let's assume that we put the internet ( this video ) into the elevator and ship it off to space. Let's also say that the internet has a mass m and is of negligible diameter compared to Earth's radius. Clearly, its angular velocity ω will stay constant, assuming that the space elevator was built perfectly straight and perpendicular to Earth. However, the internet's moment of inertia I = m r^2 will not stay the same but increase quadratically with its radial position r and its angular moment will thus have to increase, as well. If you take the initial radius to be Earth's radius (~6,300km) and the final radius to be the geostationary orbit (~36,000km), the quadratic dependence will give you an enormous difference in angular momentum which will have to be accounted for by some torque that we apply to the internet. It doesn't matter where this torque comes from--for instance we could imagine the internet to have some kind of jet propulsion engine, where the emitted gas's angular momentum would exactly match the internet's change in angular momentum, so that total angular momentum is conserved. Moreover, it could actually be a small torque, pr
The majority of people go to the most-popular (walled garden) social media these days. In that sense, the majority rarely realise what the internet is [1] and that it's more than just Facebook, Amazon etc. > It takes no effort to get online and speak your mind so nobody respects the technology. In my day, you either walked past the crazy person on the street corner and paid no attention to their insane rantings, or you spent several days cutting out letters from a newspaper and glueing them onto A4 before popping in the snail-mail. 1. this video
The few instances I travelled in remote areas with little to no Internet, and moreover no over the air TV reception, I always mulled how a simple 1K-2k setup with a mini PC running plex and a 10-20TB of disk space could provide an plex TV media library (movies, tv, audio) for a small neighborhood. Throw in Ubooquity for books and audiobooks, you can provide a massive library of media entertainment and education to the area. (of course, copyrights be damned) also: this video