Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes and no.

    If you could put a 1 petabyte flash drive on a pigeon, it would easily crush the gigabit internet

    Does a 1 petabyte flash drive exist? Could it exist?

    They put 3 stripped-down terabyte flash drives on the pigeon. Could it carry more weight?

    You get to the point where the pigeon can’t carry the weight.

    All this is saying that sending data by pigeon can be faster and using 3 tb sticks proves it.

    If it needed to be 4 tb, then they would have had to use 4 sticks. If it couldn’t carry 4 sticks, then you have your answer that the pigeon can’t do it with current technology.