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Correction for the weight of The Statue of Liberty

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How heavy is 0.000000000200 megatonnes?
It's about 0.000000008 times as heavy as The Statue of Liberty
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The weight of The Statue of Liberty is about 0.0246 megatonnes.
(a.k.a. Liberty Enlightening the World, a.k.a. La Liberté éclairant le monde) (total weight, including foundation)
The total weight of the Statue of Liberty, including her base is roughly 0.0246 megatonnes. The statue was designed using an optical trick known as "forced perspective" to make the statue appear proportionally correct when viewed from its base and is, in actuality, disproportionately large at the top.
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