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Definitely an interesting writing style. Wasn't expecting to learn that the internet "weighs" about as much as an apple.

The amount of analogies/comparisons used in this article is incredible. I almost think it would be easier for the average non-tech reader to understand if they compared it to something more directly relatable, like the power lines that deliver electricity to your house.

I wonder how much "weight" of electricity I consume per year.

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dataflow a day ago | parent [-]

> Wasn't expecting to learn that the internet "weighs" about as much as an apple.

Something doesn't make sense here. An electron is 1/2000th the mass of a proton. So 1/2000th of the mass of your hard disk is its electrons. So they're saying the entire internet runs on thousands of hard disks? That seems off by several orders of magnitude... what are they measuring?

	▲	K0HAX 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The following are all based on assumptions I'm making. The type of people who are likely to make analogies for how much the internet might weigh are almost certainly not physicists. They're probably smart, and they're probably used to doing math (programmers), but they might miss details that career physicists would think are obvious.
	▲	Gare a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Only some of those electrons can move freely.