'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of quarter-inch tapes'

[bellinghman]

Or in this case, a pigeon carrying a USB memory stick.

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Dolphins may be better all-weather options. And they'd have higher capacity, I guess.

[silly-swordsman.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they'd have to be clad in tinfoil to deflect the laser beams from the sharks.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I suspect we'd use trained ravens for data transmission here. After all, they are a tried and tested technology with a numinous user base.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Probably less prone to packet loss in that environment.

(edit: I was thinking of the pigeons, rather than your local tendency to consider dolphins as food.)

Hmm, mixed protocols: given both pigeon and raven based networks, do the ravens interfere with the pigeons?

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I think that depends on how hungry the ravens are.