* https://www.wired.com/2009/09/in-africa-a-pigeon-transfers-d...
An A380 filled with micro SD cards would likely beat any conceivable fiber network in bandwidth, if not latency.
Hmm, T-mobile's network comes close, but not quite that high, I think. /s
Somewhat more seriously, I have seen ping times approaching 20,000 ms on their network. Given the light-distance to the moon is ~1.3 seconds, this ping clearly went significantly further than the moon's orbit, and back; very clearly some routes need tweaking.
That or one hop involved a somewhat speedier avian.
Voyager 1 is further away and still sending data, although I don't think that it has received commands for a very long time.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/11/04/voya...
I've always wondered if you could send data on migrating shoals of fish like Salmon?
> The phrase "OUGHT TO" conveys an optimistic assertion of an implementation behavior that is clearly morally right, and thus does not require substantiation.
Only with birds, we'll have non-ironic activists burning down chicken coops and claiming the so-called "meat" we buy in supermarkets is some kind of mind control or Soylent Green, and all evidence that it started as a joke will be taken as evidence of a coverup.
It's funny though since the "5g tower burning, covid denying flat earther" caricature has become so overused that some believe that it's actually a real thing. But in reality it's so incredibly uncommon
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` "'In the same vein, I actually built a device once that allowed you to send http messages via black and white marbles rolling down a tube. It was very slow (and the simplest message required refilling the hopper many times).
I used some drawings of an old gumball machine to design the dispenser, and I used an Arduino with a color sensor and an LED in a 3d printed tunnel to detect the marble color. I had to bury the sensor inside a tunnel with several twists and turns to block out enough ambient light to get a reliable signal.