How Heavy Is the Internet? 174
An anonymous reader writes "Ever wondered how much the internet physically weighs? 498,438,559,990kg, according to CNET. To reach this figure, they added together public data on the weight of every computer, server and connecting cable. To this they added 6,075,000kg of iPhones, and over 6,800,000kg of Blackberries. Finally, they added the weight of 287,524 viruses and 85 billion+ webpages."
Slightly heavier then... (Score:5, Funny)
"How Heavy Is the Internet?"
Slightly heavier then the total weight of the worlds useless journalists.
Re:It doesn't weigh anything (Score:2, Funny)
Argh, hit submit too soon. Reference: IT Crowd [youtube.com]
Don't be silly. (Score:5, Funny)
The internet doesn't weigh anything [youtube.com].
Re:OOOPS! (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry for this lame thought: One day, long after it as it becomes self-aware, the Internet will collapse under it's own weight into a black hole, becoming the creator of a whole new universe.
Rosie O'Donnell still has it beat. (Score:3, Funny)
What a useless question (Score:5, Funny)
I suppose I could get a start on that by running VMs of the most popular OSs, and examining snapshots of each one, multiplying that by... oh, and do the same with backbone traffic... be a bit of a pain to handle all the embedded stuff, but in principle... well, in principle, the internet could be represented as a single number. I wonder if it's odd or even. I guess it depends on who has the last bit.
Ooops, time to takes me pills again.
Re:Slightly heavier then... (Score:5, Funny)
What a fucked up metric. That's like asking "how red is 7?" or "what's the personality of a grapefruit?"
No (Score:5, Funny)
Ever wondered how much the internet physically weighs?
No.
And, oddly, even after someone else has asked the question, I still don't.
Re:Slightly heavier then... (Score:5, Funny)
"how red is 7?"
Just about half, assuming 4 bits per channel.
"what's the personality of a grapefruit?"
Bitter.
Re:Slightly heavier then... (Score:5, Funny)
What a fucked up metric. That's like asking "how red is 7?" or "what's the personality of a grapefruit?"
Your momma is so fat, her circumference is 3.1415 internets.
/idleispants
Re:Not to mention (Score:2, Funny)
So, nobody's really sure if he exists or is just a math error?
Re:Slightly heavier then... (Score:2, Funny)