Help!
Watching TV last night and the Pentagon have announced that the amount of material found in Bin Laden's Pakistan hideaway was equivalent to the volume of paperwork in the library of a small University. I'm only familiar with the internationally recognised measurements of size known as 'Belguims' or football pitches.
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...and we all know that the official geographic/other 'natural' measurement (floods/forest fires) is "the size of Wales".
How big is a small university (piece of string)?
Having frequented several universities, I'd say that while OSB may not have had a phone line or internet connection he wasn't short of hard disk capacity.
Perhaps they meant the library of a Belgian university that didn't have sufficient shelf space to cover a football pitch!
P.S. I read that The Bible, 800,000 words takes up about 4MB in plain text format. Given this, it may well be that you don't need THAT much disk space to store loads of books. An external HDD of 1Tb is quite affordable to many people nowadays and, if you felt so inclined, you could store 250,000 copies of the Bible on such a drive.
(God, I hope my sums are right!)
He must have had an account at Staples given the number of flash drives he supposedly had.
250,000 copies of the bible does seem a little excessive - even for somebody like Jim Jones.
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