Don't joke here, I know of 2 companies that uses racing pigeons to do data transfer

believe jaeger but i speelt mah dreenk!

I don't even know whats "jeager", but sounds tasty... i wanna!

jaegermeister?

oh ok, but i have to travel a bit longer to buy these....

btw, the walrus was paul,

since we are international it is jaegermeister, but in sweden we call it jäger for short,
and now something completly different have any one heard of a game called King arthurs gold, it is free to play but you can buy it for some cosmetics and a zombie-mode

Hahah, this reminds me of these 'official' RFCs*: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers and IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service. :-D

The IP datagram is printed, on a small scroll of paper, in
hexadecimal, with each octet separated by whitestuff and blackstuff.
The scroll of paper is wrapped around one leg of the avian carrier.
A band of duct tape is used to secure the datagram's edges. The
bandwidth is limited to the leg length. The MTU is variable, and
paradoxically, generally increases with increased carrier age. A
typical MTU is 256 milligrams. Some datagram padding may be needed.

Upon receipt, the duct tape is removed and the paper copy of the
datagram is optically scanned into a electronically transmittable
form.

*RFCs, or "Request for comments", are memorandums on Internet standards and protocols by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). I.e., the one about the IP protocol. Those RFCs about avian carriers were, obviously, April Fool's Day jokes.

Please send here :D

That article made me chuckle......unless the bird can carry a flash drive with the data I want/need I don't see why comparing it's flight time of y time over x distance should be compared to downloading files. :\

But that's what they were comparing.

Oh...it's still stupid though as the bird isn't even a viable "file system"....could die along the way, get chopped up in a jet engine, etc.

I know.....overthinking I am. It is fun for me to do so, though.

For large amounts, mailing it is even faster. It takes about 24 hours to download 1 TB at 100 Mbps. Granted shipping is much more expensive, but it is faster for large amounts of data. :)

How would one even ship 1TB of data? External(or internal hot swappable) HDD? At those costs, i'd just wait and download it at my normal download speed.

It depends on what you need the data for. And my example was at 100 Mbps, I only get 10. But then, I don't regularly need to download 1 TB of data in a hurry either. :)

Yes, these are stretched examples and would really be applicable only in very high end stuff where cost is not an issue.