One and a half metric Gabe Newells.

my penis

How much does the internet weigh?

Does that include lube?

Seems to have lost weight.

Five million terabytes of data on the internet? Sounds too low.

Farkers alone have more than that in porn.

42.

What? Units weren't specified.

Get Lost: How much does the internet weigh?

Does that include lube?

yes.

Three pounds of flax!

I figure we're safe until it weighs 21 grams.

A dollar-two-ninety-eight.

Not enough, damn internet needs a sammich.

Wifi is weightless and cannot be contained for measure.

What, exactly are they measuring to gauge the weight of the internet? Ohh. So it's the weight of all the electrons/photons used to move data and that's about the weight of an average strawberry?

An average strawberry sat on top of several thousands tonnes of computer equipment I guess.

There's gotta be a "Your Mom" joke in there somewhere.

Or > Tebow...

That's a big twinkie.

AbbeySomeone: Wifi is weightless and cannot be contained for measure.

Wifi isn't voodoo. What about all the equipment broadcasting that signal? Also, electrons have weight.

well, one fiber cable weighs about as much as a strawberry, so they are all kinds of full of crap.

theres MILLIONS of computers on this thing, its pretty friggen heavy.

It says it's thin and fit on exercise threads, but the doughnut and beer threads always have more comments from the internet.

sarah_t_s: What, exactly are they measuring to gauge the weight of the internet? Ohh. So it's the weight of all the electrons/photons used to move data and that's about the weight of an average strawberry?

Also assuming that you never drop a packet.

Why did he keep going from grams to ounces? Made me stabby. I dont care how he did the math now... if he cant keep track of what standard he is using, he probably cant do the math.

pkellmey: sarah_t_s: What, exactly are they measuring to gauge the weight of the internet? Ohh. So it's the weight of all the electrons/photons used to move data and that's about the weight of an average strawberry?

Also assuming that you never drop a packet.

A fat strawberry then. Sat on top of thousands of tonnes of computer equipment.

About one cat.

One desk of cheese

WTF? What bullshiat.

When you charge a Li ion battery, you don't have more electrons in it than before. You just move Li ions (and corresponding electrons) from a lower potential in one electrode to a higher potential in the other electrode. Discharging is the opposite. There is no more mass in the battery when charged than when it was discharged.

The electrons moving in wires and through computer chips aren't added to the internet as information is stored and transferred. They just turn on and off different transistors and such.

If they are saying that the internet is the information transferred and stored on the network, then it weighs nothing. Information weighs nothing.

jigger: WTF? What bullshiat.

When you charge a Li ion battery, you don't have more electrons in it than before. You just move Li ions (and corresponding electrons) from a lower potential in one electrode to a higher potential in the other electrode. Discharging is the opposite. There is no more mass in the battery when charged than when it was discharged.

The electrons moving in wires and through computer chips aren't added to the internet as information is stored and transferred. They just turn on and off different transistors and such.

If they are saying that the internet is the information transferred and stored on the network, then it weighs nothing. Information weighs nothing.

You are correct.

But you have to add energy to the system in order to manipulate those electrons, this is more true of RAM and flash memory than solid state. That energy has a mass equivalence via E=mc^2.

I'm gonna say it weighs about tree-fiddy.

This same concept was described in terms of a kindle a few days ago on fark. The explanation for what they actually measured is very slightly better.

http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/gadgets/e-readers-get-heavier-wit h -each-book

One Al Gore.

NewportBarGuy: About six large trucks and a series of tubes. Roughly, 12 Rhode Islands.

I'm still confused. Could you give that to me in school buses? Or maybe football fields? How many times can the internet stretch back and forth to the moon if we laid it out flat?

jigger: WTF? What bullshiat.

When you charge a Li ion battery, you don't have more electrons in it than before. You just move Li ions (and corresponding electrons) from a lower potential in one electrode to a higher potential in the other electrode. Discharging is the opposite. There is no more mass in the battery when charged than when it was discharged.

The electrons moving in wires and through computer chips aren't added to the internet as information is stored and transferred. They just turn on and off different transistors and such.

If they are saying that the internet is the information transferred and stored on the network, then it weighs nothing. Information weighs nothing.

Heavy.

Oh, in the computer....

I downloaded the entire internet yesterday.

It takes up a lot of space, so I keep it distributed on servers all over the world.

/monotone
//thanks stephen wright

JUst don't drop it, or chaos will ensue...

mdking09: jigger: WTF? What bullshiat.

When you charge a Li ion battery, you don't have more electrons in it than before. You just move Li ions (and corresponding electrons) from a lower potential in one electrode to a higher potential in the other electrode. Discharging is the opposite. There is no more mass in the battery when charged than when it was discharged.

The electrons moving in wires and through computer chips aren't added to the internet as information is stored and transferred. They just turn on and off different transistors and such.

If they are saying that the internet is the information transferred and stored on the network, then it weighs nothing. Information weighs nothing.

You are correct.

But you have to add energy to the system in order to manipulate those electrons, this is more true of RAM and flash memory than solid state. That energy has a mass equivalence via E=mc^2.


Well, ok. Energy has a mass equivalent, but the energy required to store and transfer information on the internet is not the internet.

O well.

Next up...
How much do thoughts weigh?
How much do memories weigh?
How much do events weigh?

Once you get to that...then you might be able to see the past.

What does the internet smell like?
What d-

*reads rogue49's post*

sonofabiatch...

"Ham!"