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Virgin_(Island)_Girl wrote:Does every inch of earth include the ocean and oceans' floors?

I am not sure by the defitnion that was offered in the poll... The earth is roughly 2/3rds water,... leaving roughly 1/3rd land mass....If we are talking the whole earth as a planet, then that would mean all land above and below the sea and all of the earth's land mass. Covering all surface land mass vs the www and the Deep web is a no brainer.
I dunno if the numbers mentioned are strictly above surface land mass or what.

Obviously no one can walk over the various oceans surfaces...nor their depths, and using the numbers listed above....the internet is clearly larger IF we allow each webpage (obciously a webpage covers more than an inch on most any monitor.) to be of a standard size.....and printed out....
Not to mention how many pages it would take to print them all out on standard sized paper.

Well from some research, Google indexes roughly 1,326,920,000 pages.

The Earth has a surface area of 196,935,000 sq miles or 790,593,509,375,999,872 sq inches.

Now let's factor in the deep web, ( note it is continously growing in size as well ) last figure I saw there were at least 550 times as many pages on the deep web.... ( okies someone else can do the math on that ) print all of those pages out on standard size paper and lay them out side by side end to end........remember as they are being printed out....the number of sites will constantly be growing,... I have no idea how many sites there would be or how long the process of printing them out would take....or IF it could be donw

Again I question IF the earth as a planet growing in size...then why hasn't the circumference/ diameter changed....far as I know it won't be changing.... the land will change I will admit, but that does not affect the size of the planet.... does it ???

land_shark3 wrote:Well from some research, Google indexes roughly 1,326,920,000 pages.

The Earth has a surface area of 196,935,000 sq miles or 790,593,509,375,999,872 sq inches.

I'm going with the Earth.

and many, many places on Earth are damn near physically impossible to get to by most people. How do you cover the deep interior of the Amazon or the top of the Himalayas? There's untouched jungle out there that would probably be near impossible to get to, assuming you could make it that far (or back out) alive

Sam wrote:last figure I saw there were at least 550 times as many pages on the deep web....

Which brings the total to roughly 663,460,000,000; still considerably less than total square inches of Earth.

Sam wrote:Again I question IF the earth as a planet growing in size...then why hasn't the circumference/ diameter changed....

Circumference and diameter would be very unlikely to show a significant change. However, the question was "area" not "volume". If you go outside and dig a hole you have increased the surface area both by the area of the walls in the hole and the area of walls on the mound of dirt you have just displaced. The volume and mass of Earth haven't changed, but the surface area has.

Sssshhhh, I'm still drunk from last night.

i actually say earth would take longer to cover.

Google (which is a pretty large search engine) searches 8,052,044,651 pages. Now, i'm not saying google searches every single page, but they do search quite a lot. Maybe eventually there will be more webpages than square inches on the earth, but at the moment i think that google's statistic is david to earth's golaith:

7.9 x 10^17 square inches on the entire surface of the Earth.

(for those who don't remember, "^" signifies an exponent)

Parrot Monkey wrote:So would it take longer to touch every square inch of the planet Earth or visit every webpage on the internet?

What would everyone guess on this? I don’t have any scientific facts here or don’t know if anyone else does. Just though it would be a neat idea to see what people estimate the size of the World Wide Web compared the world itself.

I say the net.

I say the world, but only with the original liner notes and pictures....

land_shark3 wrote:

Sam wrote:last figure I saw there were at least 550 times as many pages on the deep web....

Which brings the total to roughly 663,460,000,000; still considerably less than total square inches of Earth.

Sam wrote:Again I question IF the earth as a planet growing in size...then why hasn't the circumference/ diameter changed....

Circumference and diameter would be very unlikely to show a significant change. However, the question was "area" not "volume". If you go outside and dig a hole you have increased the surface area both by the area of the walls in the hole and the area of walls on the mound of dirt you have just displaced. The volume and mass of Earth haven't changed, but the surface area has.

Sssshhhh, I'm still drunk from last night.

nah, you hit it hard, dead on. in vino veritas