• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    Obviously. We’ve all used the internet. Everyone knows it takes a few milliseconds to ping someone on the other side of the planet. No one thinks a pigeon can travel that fast. Also, yeah, transferring off the device may take longer, but we don’t include unpacking files in download speed, for example. It just counts when the data arrives.

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      19 hours ago

      Some people see clickbaity headlines like that and think it means that using a pigeon would always be faster, since it’s the implication the headline gives.

      If the files are packed on the pigeon delivered USB we’d need to transfer them to the drive and then unpack them as well. That’s a step that would be needed regardless of delivery method, but transferring the files to the computer is a step only needed for the pigeon delivery method.