Timeline for Would the internet be intact in 3021 without human maintenance?
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 14:51 | vote | accept | user11111111111 | ||
| Jan 27, 2021 at 9:24 | comment | added | NomadMaker | No. Even if power could be maintained, eventually all the fans would clog up and the servers would die from the heat build-up. The hard-drives would certainly be dead also. Time is not kind to continuously-moving things. | |
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:49 | answer | added | elemtilas | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:15 | history | edited | user11111111111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:11 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | Hello and welcome to WB! Also +1. I asked a different question once, which had to do with Earth freezing over and the effects on electronics. Answers show that electronics would fail way before cold would become an issue. Check it out :) | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:08 | comment | added | user11111111111 | Thank you for all the helpful comments! Feel free to lengthen them and put them into answer form and I would gladly accept the most helpful. | |
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| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:06 | comment | added | GrumpyYoungMan | Short answer: no. Power would go out within days to a couple of weeks (e.g. reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/76jaue/… ; similar considerations apply to fossil fuel power plants as well). Modern SSDs will have lost their data because of flash cell charge leakage within ~25 years. Many of the materials that make up modern mechanical and electronics systems will have failed due to material aging within 100 years. | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:04 | comment | added | AngelPray | @Nai45 As implied by tantalus, the internet requires energy to run (data storage centers, communication towers, etc). Without humans to maintain energy production, the internet would not be operable, even for no other reason. Certainly not after a couple months, let alone 1000 years. | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:03 | comment | added | Kyle B | No. Electronics degrade over time, whether they are used or not. Even if stored in a vacuum, things such as capacitors and batteries will chemically self-degrade over time. Almost "never" are electronics built & operated in a vacuum, so the metals they are made of will oxidize (rust). You'll need to invent new technologies for something to remain functional in a thousand years. The internet as it exists today would be dust in a 1000 years (I'm an electronics engineer FWIW....) | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 1:01 | comment | added | user11111111111 | @AngelPray What do you mean? | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 0:57 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | Your presupposition seems to be that the mains power supply is independent of humanity's continued existence. | |
| Jan 27, 2021 at 0:55 | history | asked | user11111111111 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |