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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet
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"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway"
Interestingly enough NASA still sends data this way. Huge HDD delivered by hand. Not all data, but I remember reading about some satellite images and similar data where latency doesn't matter. Can't beat good old box full of HDD.
yep, radio telescopes send data this way, thats how SETI@home got the Arecibo data
I wondered why NASA was using pigeons till I read the rest of your comment.
It was 10 years ago so I don't know what is the practice now but the "offsite backup" solution in my office was taking a hard drive to a safe at the local bank.
Every week someone would go to the bank to switch the drive that is stored there.
AWS offers a semi truck with a shipping container full of hard drives for large data transfers
Huh, I fully expected the link to be a hard drive article
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