SA pigeon "faster than broadband"
Sep. 10th, 2009 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wellinghall"Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8248056.stm
Also -
"A retired pilot has told how he managed to control a bomber which unexpectedly took off during an airshow."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8246544.stm
It's worth watching the video ...
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8248056.stm
Also -
"A retired pilot has told how he managed to control a bomber which unexpectedly took off during an airshow."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8246544.stm
It's worth watching the video ...
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