Lab Notes

Three Israeli researchers with way too much time on their hands figured out that pigeons have greater bandwidth than DSL. They strapped some flash memory cards to three pigeons, flew them 100 kilometers, and compared the time it took to transfer the four gigabytes of data using the pigeons to the time it took to transfer it via DSL. The results were not too surprising: Netflix has made a business out of the fact that the USPS can still transfer large amounts of data more efficiently than a home broadband connection.