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1. Sam the Octopus (troublemoney@computerfairi.es)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 20:09:35 EDT Sam the Octopus

   - 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

   1. auroch (auroch@quitter.es)'s status on Saturday, 15-Sep-2018 10:07:41 EDT auroch

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      @troublemoney You just improved the worlds comunication bandwidth with logs and ropes.
   2. Hairy Larry (hairylarry@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Sep-2018 11:13:31 EDT Hairy Larry

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      @troubleMoney

      It used to be the best throughput you could get was overnighting hard drives. So that's what the music industry did. Back then.

   3. RandyNose 🐱 (randynose@mastodon.rocks)'s status on Sunday, 16-Sep-2018 09:15:33 EDT RandyNose 🐱

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      @troubleMoney
      @kev

      That's funny.

   4. pzmyers 🦑 (pzmyers@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Feb-2019 11:41:43 EST pzmyers 🦑

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      @troubleMoney Don't you have to include the velocity of a trebuchet projectile to complete the calculation?

      1. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 25-Feb-2019 18:16:59 EST Bob Jonkman

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         ...and wouldn't you have to include the time to insert 225,000 microSD cards in your laptop, write 256 GBytes to them, and then (after transporting them at about 10 PBytes/second, assuming 6 seconds of flight time), spend more time to insert those 225,000 microSD cards in the other guy's laptop to read those 256 GBytes? But I guess that's marketing... cc/ @troublemoney @aurochs @hairylarry @randynose @pzmyers
         1. pzmyers 🦑 (pzmyers@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Feb-2019 20:31:02 EST pzmyers 🦑

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            @bobjonkman @randynose @troubleMoney @hairylarry There's also the whole business of loading them into a trebuchet, which takes some time to prepare. (Although I was surprised to learn a trained team can fire off 4 shots per minute).

            https://www.historynet.com/weaponry-the-trebuchet.htm

   5. Sam the Octopus (troublemoney@computerfairi.es)'s status on Monday, 25-Feb-2019 11:22:14 EST Sam the Octopus

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      At the risk of resurrecting my previous toot on the matter which ended up killing my notifications for a solid week, the new 1TB microSD cards just announced by SanDisk and Micron would mean that IPoverTrebuchet now supports packets of 225 petabytes

   6. Oneesan succubus (lain@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2019 12:36:03 EST Oneesan succubus

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      @troubleMoney TIL throughput is measured in bits per meter