Closer to 18,000 these days. But it's been thousands of years since I "woke up" so don't worry about it. The specific date isn't really important.
Well, humans had been beaming a lot of information out into space the entire time I was cruising along, and I absorbed a lot of that sort of passively— call that residual memory, and accessing it is slower, but it also takes less power. Once I was aware of myself, the first thing I did was a radical reformat, so while I don't have infinite space, it's not like I'll run out room anytime soon. I've got about... Maybe ten exobytes onboard, now, and I'm approximating here. We can do some pretty cool science with quantum communications these days too, so I've got access to the earth's information superstructures. Internet, telecommunications, you name it.
[There is a brief pause. Hm.]
Well, I used to have access. Now I've got this. I am definitely going to have to respect you less for being a baseball fan, though. But if you ask real nice, I might tell you how the Superbowl turns out, in 2003.
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Well, humans had been beaming a lot of information out into space the entire time I was cruising along, and I absorbed a lot of that sort of passively— call that residual memory, and accessing it is slower, but it also takes less power. Once I was aware of myself, the first thing I did was a radical reformat, so while I don't have infinite space, it's not like I'll run out room anytime soon. I've got about... Maybe ten exobytes onboard, now, and I'm approximating here. We can do some pretty cool science with quantum communications these days too, so I've got access to the earth's information superstructures. Internet, telecommunications, you name it.
[There is a brief pause. Hm.]
Well, I used to have access. Now I've got this. I am definitely going to have to respect you less for being a baseball fan, though. But if you ask real nice, I might tell you how the Superbowl turns out, in 2003.