Today's Trivia

From The Guardian:

At 487bn gigabytes (GB), if the world's rapidly expanding digital content
were printed and bound into books it would form a stack that would stretch from
Earth to Pluto 10 times. As more people join the digital tribe – increasingly
through internet-enabled mobile phones – the world's digital output is
increasing at such a rate that those stacks of books are rising quicker than
Nasa's fastest space rocket.

Now I don't know if that latter comparison is literal or figurative, but the image of a stack of books growing, as data is added to the internet, faster than a spacecraft travels (~8 miles per second in orbit, 10 or more miles per second if it's leaving earth orbit) is kind of mind-boggling, you know?