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Pigeon Bandwidth - mrlayance - 03-31-2004
A well documented test took place in the north of Israel, in presence of several dozen Internet geeks and experts. During the test, 3 homing pigeons carried 4 GB (gigabytes) for 100 km distance, achieving, what apparently looks as pigeons' world record in data transfer to a given distance. Bandwidth achieved by the pigeons was 2.27 Mbps...Transferring a similar volume of information through a common uplink of ADSL line would have taken no less than 96 hours...
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- clearlyentranced - 03-31-2004
That's amazing. Atleast now we know where Gord's pigeon camera ended up.
- grooveless touque - 03-31-2004
Is anyone else willing to admit this doesn't really make all that much sense? I don't get it...you could strap a hard drive on a camel and send it across the Sahara, what would it mean??
I don't even really understand exactly what they were trying to do...
- Summiteer - 03-31-2004
Willing too Admit........