?Fun? fact: In a steampunk world, birds would serve as CPUs. America experimented with using pigeons for bomb guidance. As it turned out, three birds pecking at an image had pretty good accuracy. They ultimately lost out to silicon, due to the size, maintenance, and training time.
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Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.
There was an amusing short story about a guy who could do actual math in his head (I think it was by Asimov).
Edit: found it, it's "The Feeling Of Power" by Asimov.
They ultimately lost out to silicon
for now....
They ultimately lost out to silicon
Fuckin computers taking birds' jobs.
While it sounds great in practice, I find it suspicious that they never mention the the final bill.
not that kind of bird
The video is by Benn Jordan, I wholeheartedly recommend this video and entire channel. Guy is a world treasure.
In order to transmit/receive data during the night, a different carrier and modulation should be used: owls and a hoot-based Morse code (e.g. "ho-ho-ho-ho hooo-hooo-hooo hooo-hooo-hooo hooo" safely conveys "hoot" through the night skies).
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Yep, obviously a government funded drone if it only has 2Mb uplink
I got the error correction baseball bat!
I heard the Falcon service is the fastest.
Send a raven.