Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute

jones_supa writes "Google's YouTube is celebrating its 8-year birthday, and at the same time they reveal some interesting numbers. 'Today, more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. That's more than four days of video uploaded each minute! Every month, more than 1 billion people come to YouTube to access news, answer questions and have a little fun. That's almost one out of every two people on the Internet. Millions of partners are creating content for YouTube and more than 1,000 companies worldwide have mandated a one-hour mid-day break to watch nothing but funny YouTube videos. Well, we made that last stat up, but that would be cool (the other stats are true).'"

Re:So how long...

[Zordak]

The universe is approximately 13.7E9 years old. There are 8.766E3 hours in a year. Thus, the universe is approximately 1.20E14 hours old. So at a rate of 100 hours per second, it would take 1.20E12 second to exceed the age of the universe in YouTube videos. 1.20E12 seconds works out to around 1 million years. So we have a way to go still.

Re:"warp 39" in star trek terms

[Anonymous Coward]

peter303 doesn't explain well and is bad at arithmetic.

The original Star Trek writers' notes from the 60s have an equation to figure out the Warp Factor (the 5 in "plot a course to Earth, Warp 5"). Divide the speed of the ship by the speed of light and take the cube root. So Warp 1 is equivalent to the speed of light (the cube root of 1) and warp 10 would be 1000 times the speed of light. it's a pretty simple scale.

I think he is trying to say that if you took "hours per minute" as a speed(which makes no sense) it'd be warp factor 39. He starts off by saying that 100 hours/minute is "a 60,000 fold" factor. As near as I can tell from what he says he means 6,000 (change hours to minutes to get 6,000 minutes/minute). Then I think he is saying that to get a speed of 60,000 times the speed of light you'd need warp 39. This is correct enough, 39.15.
So if you wanted 6,000 times the speed of light that'd be warp 18.17.

none of this explains why he saw "hours/minute" and decided it was a speed to change into a warp factor...