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I think more interesting than this RFC is the United States Army Pigeon Service. During WWII the force consisted of 54,000 pigeons. Over 90% of US Army messages sent by pigeons were received. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Pigeon_Serv...
They must've implemented RFC 2549: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
What if used bees instead of birds?
Considering I learnt this week bees have been shown to understand numerical symbols to the point of accociating them with quantity, using bees might be getting a little too close to Turing Complete for my liking. I mean, we all know how badly that turned out with PDFs, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103292
This reminds me of the old saying "never under estimate the through-put of a station wagon full of hard drives". It looks like it has disappeared from the internet but at one time someone had a calculator where you could enter the number of hard drives your station wagon could hold, the size of the hard drives and the time it took to drive across town from data center A to data center B and would tell you what bandwi…
This is still true in astronomy. Data between radio telescopes for VLBI or the EHT is shipped in disk packs. I am not sure how Ice cube gets their data back from antartika, but I don't think it is over the thin and expensive satellite internet. Data from the gamma ray telescopes HESS and Magic are transported to their data centers on tapes.
A talk I attended by Heino Falcke stated that each site is now recording data at 64Gbps. Astounding metrics. https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/talk_archive/H...
I think more interesting than this RFC is the United States Army Pigeon Service. During WWII the force consisted of 54,000 pigeons. Over 90% of US Army messages sent by pigeons were received. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Pigeon_Serv...
They must've implemented RFC 2549: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549