Anything but metric.
You literally said “960,947 grams”
That’s 961kg, or about a single 4th grader short of one metric ton.
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cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
tldr
If the internet is 175 x 1024^7 bytes, that’s 960,947 grams’ worth of DNA. That’s the same as 10.6 American males. Or one third of a Cybertruck. Or 64,000 strawberries.
Anything but metric.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
…of DNA
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
A byte has to be weighed against something equivalent. DNA is a fantastic constant representation of physical data.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Schorsch@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
wow I’m so shocked I can’t contain my excitement *yawn*
Does it get more clickbaity than this?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
This is fantastically dumb. Why would they convert bytes into DNA? That is literally not how the internet works.
Can’t they convert it into hard drives? That would be better but it would still ignore all the hardware used to run the hard drives, connect them, etc.
I’m too lazy to go around the paywall.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
There is literally “grams” in that sentence
My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Those were amerigrams
LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Oh