This might actually work for us too, since video files are still too large to transfer via the internet. I wonder how many 3.5" drives a pigeon could carry? Or, how many pigeons would we need to reliably transfer say, 1tb of data via flash drives. I imagine some would get lost/killed, so there would need to be redundancy.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Chris Dunford <[email protected]> wrote: > We shouldn't complain about U.S. broadband. Check this article about > broadband in South Africa. > > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1212214/Company-enlists-Winston-homing-pigeon-carry-data-transfer--faster-broadband.html > > Or: > > http://tinyurl.com/nszden > > It's not mentioned in the article, but a test run has been completed. When > the pigeon arrived with the memory card, a broadband transfer of the same > data was 4% complete. And they are serious--this is > not some kind of protest or demonstration. They are planning to do this > routinely. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
