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This is a normal post There was something in New Scientist about 10 or 15 years ago
where someone had set out to weigh the internet. On the basis that each bit is represented by a 1 or a 0, and that by the presence or absence of an electron, if you worked out how many bits there were in the internet, you could would out how many electrons. Since electrons are massive, you can just multiply through.

The whole internet at the time weighed about the same as a strawberry. I suspect that it's more like an bowlful now.
 (Star Wars Starwarsy McStarwars Face, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 21:31, Reply)
This is a normal post But is it a living strawberry
Or a dead one? How would you know?
 (I helped save b3ta! Invisible Wizard - 11th Level MERPer, Tue 11 Aug 2020, 22:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Taste?

(smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Wed 12 Aug 2020, 11:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Radio4life

(I helped save b3ta! brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 12 Aug 2020, 14:21, Reply)
This is a normal post A load of bollocks really, given how we actually store data
But it does remind me of Carl Sagan estimating the equivalent weight what all radio telescopes had picked up at that point as about the same as a single falling snowflake.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Wed 12 Aug 2020, 0:06, Reply)