pigeon beats adsl
http://www.news24.co...geon_beats_Telkom
Cape Town - Winston, a homing pigeon, has made history by beating a Telkom ADSL line in delivering 4GB of data from Howick to Hillcrest, outside Durban in just 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds, whereas the ADSL download was "still just under four percent complete" at 11:45.figures, bleh |
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Like they say ...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of DVDs speeding down the highway.
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Drew |
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More Pigeons.
Back in 1981 Lockheed Burbank needed to send photographic negatives to Santa Barbara in the afternoon. Traffic was bad, so they used pigeons. The pigeons go there in half the time at 1% of the cost of sending a car.
Once a week they'd send a truck up to Santa Barbara at night when traffic was light to bring back some pigeons. This went on for a few years, until Lockheed moved out of Burbank, and they said they never lost a pigeon. |
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neat!
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pigeon beats adsl
- (boxley)
- (3)
- Sept. 9, 2009, 01:05:44 PM EDT
Like they say ...
- (drook)
- Sept. 9, 2009, 02:21:26 PM EDT
More Pigeons.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- Sept. 10, 2009, 08:33:32 PM EDT
neat!
-NT
- (boxley)
- Sept. 10, 2009, 08:36:37 PM EDT
