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.
There is literally "grams" in that sentence
Those were amerigrams
Oh
Anything but metric.
You literally said "960,947 grams"
That's ~961kg; 39kg short of one metric ton.
...of DNA
A byte has to be weighed against something equivalent. DNA is a fantastic constant representation of physical data.
wow I'm so shocked I can't contain my excitement *yawn*
Does it get more clickbaity than this?
This is fantastically dumb. Why would they convert bytes into DNA? That is literally not how the internet works. It's just an arbitrary, hypothetical storage method.
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.
Terrible article.
archive: https://archive.is/XAt3S
And it doesn't weigh anything!
And how many grams of fossil fuel are burned to keep it running day and night?
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