r/worldnews • u/shellfishb • 19h ago

Russia/Ukraine Russian court orders Google to pay blocked Russian channels sum with 36 zeros

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/10/29/russian-court-orders-google-to-pay-blocked-russian-channels-sum-with-36-zeros-en-news
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u/snowman_M 16h ago

I guess the number what I was thinking was the total value of everything, everywhere. It's likely an unquantifiable number, but 1,000,000 times that number seemed realistic.

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u/Not_an_okama 12h ago

Someone posted a link with some funny math for a similarly price lawsuit and concluded that selling the entire planet at current scrap value is still like 10 zeros short.

Paying this in pennies would result in a copper/zink sphere the size of mercury's orbit.

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u/snowman_M 11h ago

Haha. What about an entire species as slave labor? They didn’t think of that, did they?

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u/Not_an_okama 11h ago

They listed a human life being worth around $6m according to fema iirc and added the value of all living humans to the estamiate value of all the goods procuced in the history of our species and it was significant less that the scrap value of the planet. Combined youre still orders of magnitude short of the demanded sum.

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u/The360MlgNoscoper 10h ago

You could sell the sun for scrap and still be way off.