The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You

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• glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And how many grams of fossil fuel is burned to keep it running day and night?

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …of DNA

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  • Schorsch@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wow I’m so shocked I can’t contain my excitement *yawn*

    Does it get more clickbaity than this?

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is literally “grams” in that sentence

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    • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those were amerigrams

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This, Jen, is the internet.

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And it doesn’t weigh anything!

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