Ps... thanks for reminding me that I had to work out how much data you
can move over a 10mbit link in a month... it was one of the 15 home
work assignments that my LES students had to do this week.
Cheers Don
Don Gould wrote:
I do have to confess that I handn't considered this approach...
However
1. I suspect that the greenies on list (of which I'm sure there's more
than one) would object to the idea of chipping birds.
2. A 10mbit pipe will move 6480 gigibytes of data a month [1]. At 4gb
per bird flight [2] that would mean a total of 1620 flights per month.
a. Would we require some sort of resource consent for this level of
landings and take offs in a residential area?
b. Would we require air traffic control? What would the cost be of a
radar system be?
c. Would we need collision detection? Would you be willing to swim out
across the estuary to save any downed birds?
d. Would we need to establish a union for the birds to ensure that no
single bird is over worked?
e.... you can see I could just go on for ever because to be completely
honest Chris, I know SFN about birds. However thanks for the thought.
Cheers Don
[1] - assuming 30 days months and 1000mbytes to a gigibyte
[2] - based on data in the article Chris referenced
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:06, Don Gould wrote:
Perhaps I should just give up piss arsing about with grand ideas to do
something good for anyone else and just waste petrol driving over to my
clients house to show them the work we produce for them.
http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/04/28/pigeon-empowered-wireless-internet
:-)
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