<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Ken.<div><br></div><div>I've just finished reading an autobio of Google employee #58, who recalled the infinite bandwidth superiority of a carload of hard disks compared with any other medium of the day.<div>Maybe fibre optic cable (FOC) is catching up. </div><div><br></div><div>1Pb would equal about twenty 6TB hard disks. (I think 6TB is about the biggest current hard disk capacity.)</div><div>At about 650g each, 1 second of FOC bandwidth on 20 big disks would weigh about 13kg. </div><div>A carload (four fat men with suitcases) would be about 600kg - so a car could carry maybe 46 seconds of FOC data transmission.</div><div>Forty-six seconds would probably get the car of fat men to the end of the driveway.</div><div>Over 52km at 100kmh, the car would take at least 30 minutes to reach its destination, by which time the FOC could have delivered 36,000 disks.</div><div><br></div><div>That's 643 GMockB (gigamockingbirds)!</div><div><br></div><div>Now I start wondering how long it would take European (or African) swallows to convey 643 GMockB of data... <br>I sense a thesis coming on. Or at least a best-selling children's book.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Mark</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 March 2015 at 13:03, ken price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenjprice@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenjprice@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks Mark<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2bFFGM8T8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2bFFGM8T8</a><br><div><br></div><div>Hungry Beast tested three methods of data transmission from a NSW town into Sydney (700MB of Marx Bros comedy Duck Soup):</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>broadband<br></li><li>car</li><li>carrier pigeon<br></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Apart from one f-word it's good student viewing.</div><div><br></div><div>Pigeon won, easily. Mockingbird and Duck unavailable for comment.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>See also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers</a> </div><div>kp</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, holiday-anticipators.<div><br></div><div>While researching network communication speeds (for a children's book I'm writing) I discovered a fascinating nugget of knowledge.</div><div><br></div><div>In 2012 a record speed was set for bandwidth over a twelve-fibre optic cable: 1.05 Petabits per second over 52 km.</div><div><br></div><div>My arithmetic has never been great, but I calculated that it equates to 122,245 high definition movies (1GB each) per second. One second's transmission over that cable would take about 14 years nonstop viewing to watch.</div><div><br></div><div>This compares to CAT6 cable's 1Gbps, which equates to about 190 copies of "To Kill A Mockingbird" per second.</div><div><br></div><div>I've written to the IEEE proposing the Mockingbird as a new unit of bandwidth. I have not heard back from them yet, but I'm quietly hopeful.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, did you know Harper Lee is publishing the sequel to TKAM this year? "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Go-Set-Watchman-Harper-Lee/dp/0062409859/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426470123&sr=8-1&keywords=go+set+a+watchman" target="_blank">Go Set A Watchman</a>" is due for release in 4 months.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett</i><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div>
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