Wikipedia

I love Wikipedia. Sure, the validity of many articles is questionable, but how many encyclopedias have any information on, say, Jack Bauer? I am in Kate's apartment right now and we're shooting the shit like usual, and I was saying how Wikipedia is the closest thing we have to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I remember that the HHGG was really huge if you printed it out, and I was curious how much volume a printed Wikipedia would take. So I went to Wikipedia's technical FAQ to find out.

Here is the most recent information (as of August 2006):

Wikipedia non-thumbnail storage: 1.2 TB
Number of kilobytes in 1.2 TB: 1,288,490,189 KB
Average number of kilobytes per printed page: 2
Number of printed pages for Wikipedia: 644,245,094
Thickness of a piece of paper: 0.05 mm
Height of the stack of one-sided paper: 3221225.4725 mm = 3,221 meters high
In feet: 10,567.59 ft
Height of storage: 11 ft
An 8.5"x11" piece of paper is 0.649305556 ft^2
There are 304.8 mm in a foot
Millimeters in a stack of papers: 304.8 * 11 = 3352.8
Sheets of paper in a stack to the ceiling: 3352.8 / 0.05 = 67,056
Number of stacks: 644,245,094 / 67,056 = 9607.568 each taking up 6,238.2474 square feet.