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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

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The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 days ago

Depending on who you ask, the internet weighs no more than a potato, a strawberry—or something much, much smaller. WIRED investigates.

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9 days ago

Anything but metric.

You literally said “960,947 grams”

That’s ~961kg; 39kg short of one metric ton.
- @tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de
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  …of DNA
  - Lka1988
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    A byte has to be weighed against something equivalent. DNA is a fantastic constant representation of physical data.
  - @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    https://youtu.be/-fC2oke5MFg

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