And on average, each page required 30 sheets of paper to print. So, in total, how many trees would this endeavor kill? Walker and Harwood estimate about 16 million, or 0.002% of the Amazon rainforest.

First, Walker and Harwood worked out that it would take 70,859,865 pieces of paper to print out Wikipedia alone, on the basis that each article requires, on average, 15 pages. They then applied ...

Stack that many sheets of paper one on top of the other and you would get a column about 8,300 miles high! (Assuming that the average thickness of each sheet is .0039 inches.. George Harwood and ...

This post originally appeared on Business Insider.. A quick and dirty calculation reveals that you could print the entire internet on 136 billion pieces of standard 8-by-11 sheets of paper.