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Re:The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry by sukuriant on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:31PM (#3189921)
I presume you're using e=mc^2 here. That's not how e=mc^2 was meant to be used[1]. And, this is using the actual mass of an electron: 9.10938188e-31 kilograms (Google)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence

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Re:The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry by rsaarelm on Thursday November 03, 2011 @12:35AM (#3190311)
I think grandparent is talking about Landauer's principle which relates information and energy, electrons aren't involved in any way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

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Re:The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry by sukuriant on Thursday November 03, 2011 @06:22AM (#3191079)
Oh I see now, and it also looks like he's evaluating the data on the internet, not the internet in motion, which was where the mass-of-a-strawberry idea comes in.
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