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A typical digitized picture on your computer screen is 640 pixels long by 480 pixels wide, for a total of 307200 pixels. Using only 256 different colors, you can get decent resolution. Now if you take 256^307200 (256 times itself 307200 times) you get... well, a pretty big number, but a finite number nonetheless. That's the number of different images you can have of that particular size. Any picture you would scan into a computer at that size and resolution will necessarily be one of those images. Therefore, contained in those images are the images of the faces of every human being who ever lived along with the images of the faces of every person yet to be born.
It's kind of obvious, but I find it interesting. I don't know why it only mentions human faces though because the idea covers every possible thing that you could ever see. If you somehow built a computer with dodecabytes of hard drive and a Pentium MXCLLVXXX Intel processor, and set it running with Paint to create every possible combination of pixels and store them... THEN... THEN you'd have on the hard-drive every possible conceivable image from the past, present and future. It'd be awesome. A mirror of reality in fairly poor quality digital images.
It's kind of obvious, but I find it interesting. I don't know why it only mentions human faces though because the idea covers every possible thing that you could ever see. If you somehow built a computer with dodecabytes of hard drive and a Pentium MXCLLVXXX Intel processor, and set it running with Paint to create every possible combination of pixels and store them... THEN... THEN you'd have on the hard-drive every possible conceivable image from the past, present and future. It'd be awesome. A mirror of reality in fairly poor quality digital images.