IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)

mothsonasloth wrote: post #2

There is Avian and Sneakernet, any other esoteric RFCs? I've always wondered if you could send data on migrating shoals of fish like Salmon?

Here's a list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...

Re: IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)

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Post by jug » Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 3:27 PM UTC

There is clearly an issue with the network protocol if the packets run the risk of starting to socialize with each other!

Re: IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)

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Post by ineedasername » Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 3:36 PM UTC

tmysl wrote: post #4

r/BirdsArentReal will definitely get a kick out of this

Sure, it's all fun & games when everyone is in on the joke. Just like the flat earthers, up until some musician gets into a twitter spat with Neil Degrasse Tyson over the flatness (or lack thereof) of the Earth.

Only with birds, we'll have non-ironic activists burning down chicken coops and claiming the so-called "meat" we buy in supermarkets is some kind of mind control or Soylent Green, and all evidence that it started as a joke will be taken as evidence of a coverup.

Re: IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)

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Post by markstos » Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

ineedasername wrote: post #8

tmysl wrote: post #4

r/BirdsArentReal will definitely get a kick out of this

Sure, it's all fun & games when everyone is in on the joke. Just like the flat earthers, up until some musician gets into a twitter spat with Neil Degrasse Tyson over the flatness (or lack thereof) of the Earth. Only with birds, we'll have non-ironic activists burning down chicken coops and claiming the so-called "meat" we buy in supermarkets is some kind of mind control or Soylent Green, and all evidence that it sta…

Where the claims that meat is mind control or Soylent Green?

Re: IP over Avian Carriers RFC 1149 event (2001)

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Post by deathanatos » Tue, Mar 29, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

> with ping times varying from 3211 to 6389 seconds. I guess this is a new record for ping times…

Hmm, T-mobile's network comes close, but not quite that high, I think. /s

Somewhat more seriously, I have seen ping times approaching 20,000 ms on their network. Given the light-distance to the moon is ~1.3 seconds, this ping clearly went significantly further than the moon's orbit, and back; very clearly some routes need tweaking.

That or one hop involved a somewhat speedier avian.