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  • 🤔 I wonder how much data a single bird could feasibly carry. Quite a bit more than when this standard was first thought up I’m sure. You can get some incredibly high capacity sd cards now.

    • I wonder how much data a single bird could feasibly carry

      I imagine it’s quite a lot. You already brought up high-capacity SD cards, so at that point it’s figuring out how much weight the bird can carry in terms of 1TB SD cards or similar.

    • Pretty much every time there have been head to head competitions between birds and wires, the birds have won.

      • 1 year

        Yeah, it’s not the bandwidth that’s the problem, it’s the ping.

        Well, ping and packet loss.

        • 1 year

          I’d assume range too. Hard to go across the ocean by pigeon.

    • 1 year

      Its not a question of where it could grasp the data, it’s a question of weight ratios