Well, at least sending data via flash-cards and pigeons isn't a joke.
"If 16 homing pigeons are given eight 512 GB SD cards each, and take an hour to reach their destination, the throughput of the transfer would be 145.6 Gbit/s, excluding transfer to and from the SD cards."
Today we have 1TB microSD cards, they only weight an 8th of an SD card.
If the capacity of a pigeon is 8 SD cards (1290,24cm³) then it can carry 64 microSD cards (1049,6cm³).
This means the capacity is now 64TB instead of 4TB. and the throughput would be 18,6 Tbit/s.
At 170MByte/s that's another 100 minutes to get the data off a 1 TB microSD card using a Sandisk proprietary reader. You would need 64 of them working in parallel.
I found HN during Lent this year. I’m not religious, but had been toying with the idea of leaving R quite for some time. Your 5 words express my exact sentiment, and exactly why I find HN so refreshing.
"If 16 homing pigeons are given eight 512 GB SD cards each, and take an hour to reach their destination, the throughput of the transfer would be 145.6 Gbit/s, excluding transfer to and from the SD cards."
Today we have 1TB microSD cards, they only weight an 8th of an SD card.
If the capacity of a pigeon is 8 SD cards (1290,24cm³) then it can carry 64 microSD cards (1049,6cm³).
This means the capacity is now 64TB instead of 4TB. and the throughput would be 18,6 Tbit/s.