- a microSD card weighs somewhere around 0.4g
- the highest capacity microSD that's easily available is 256GB
- a trebuchet can throw a 90kg projectile over 300m

90kg worth of microSD cards is 225,000 of them

Therefore a trebuchet can throw 57.6PB of data over 300m

This would have the highest throughput of any telecommunications network ever created

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@troubleMoney The trouble is data reliability and the absence of speedy error correction mechanisms. You'd have to admit a 57.6 PB mass of data would not arrive at its destination with every 256 GB packet intact, let alone in the proper order. (Well, it would arrive there intact and in the proper order at the instant of arrival, but the buffer it's then immediately pressed into is not exactly compatible.)

@arielmt eh, there's enough space, could put it in RAID or something :blobgrin:

@troubleMoney RAIT: Redundant array of independant trebuchets.

RAIP: Redundant array of independent projectiles.

Though I could see that last one .... not going over so well.

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@arielmt @troubleMoney I dunno, I think RFC2549, "IP Over Avian Carriers With QoS" would cover it, with a few tweaks.

tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549

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