Subscribe by EmailHow Much Does Data Weigh?
August 7, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 6 comments
Don’t you just love sites such as Microsoft and Yahoo Answers? If you browse around either just a bit, you’re sure to end up on gems such as this one:
Yes folks, you learned it here, data actually weigh something! Ok, maybe not, but this guy sure seems to think so!
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That one got a laugh out of me. Thanks for that. :-) I do have an answer though. Maybe it’s not the xbox or laptop, maybe it’s the muscle atrophy from sitting on the couch.
I really hope someone gave him some bs equations as an answer
The brain cells this person has lost should off-set the laptop gain.
1 gram per KB… duh.
I told my cw-orkers for years that my laptop was heavier with a full charge. All kidding aside, I think that the problem is his excess RAM. I suggest removing the second SIMM.
In fact, Yes “datas” (in fact eletrons)weight something as it’s physical… but we cannot easily measure their weight .
But the weight doesn’t increase with the amount of data… as there is no increase of data, just a change of state…