30.Jan.2010 Faster Than a Speeding Pigeon
Via NPR:
South Africa’s leading Internet service provider is facing some unexpected competition. A financial services company, frustrated with super-slow Internet speed, decided to try a homing pigeon instead. It strapped a memory card to the leg of a bird. By the time it arrived at the data’s destination, 50 miles away, the Internet had managed to send only 4 percent of the information