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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by dr_orpheus on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:24PM (#37311830)
Also reminds me of the XKCD What-if: "When - if ever - will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx"

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

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Re:I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video] by GauntletWizard on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:53PM (#37315223)
What-ifs really need to be dated. Some of those assumptions are enough to date it; 160tb/kg is kind of laughable now, when talking about micro SD cards.

Reasonably guessable using https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...

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