IBM makes world map 1000 times smaller than grain of sand

the Foresight Institute:

IBM researchers in its Zurich lab have drawn–or rather, carved–a three-dimensional map of the world that’s 22 micrometers east to west by 11 micrometers north to south. At that size, about 15 of the maps could be wrapped end to end long-ways around a strand of human hair, by our math.

Micrometer Earth

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