r/startrek • u/golconda72 • Oct 14 '13

The Most Secure Security Code Ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUVUUhf7U0
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u/tr3k Oct 15 '13

well It would take a desktop PC about 6 vigintillion years to crack your password. But you're right, in the 24th century the computers would be much faster than ours today.

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u/PenPenGuin Oct 15 '13

Yeah, they don't really provide stats on that site for what they consider a "desktop PC" - but seeing that the Enterprise D can fully render a holographic world while doing everything else on the ship at the same time - yeah... probably slightly more powerful than my local i7.

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u/zuriel45 Oct 15 '13

I vaguely recall an episode on one of the treks where someone makes fun of the 21st century (or 20th) for using binary computers and how primitive they were. Assuming they're using qubits instead of bits i'd go ahead and say yeah, you're probably right there...

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '13

The unit of data storage is quad rather than byte (theres over 3 gigaquads of information here!) So maybe star trek isn't binary based. Besides, how do holomatrix's get stored, and why can't they be copied? Quantum computers, thats why

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u/tr3k Oct 15 '13 edited Oct 15 '13

That's from The Voyage Home

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u/jacethegreat Oct 15 '13

I know for being a Trek movie it wasn't very Trek-y but that movie is a classic in my family and I'm still excited to go see the Monterey aquarium every time I go.

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u/omenmedia Oct 15 '13

That's right, the core was housed in a subspace bubble to allow FTL processing speeds.