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Snails Edge Out ADSL

Posted by timothy on from the little-tiny-station-wagons dept.

Anonymous writes "Dear Sirs, Following our experiment last year, and after long preparations, we have successfully proved that certain gastropods called African giant snails can be faster then ADSL and ... pigeons. The system we have used, called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers (snails), and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer. More details can be found here."

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  1. Not legal in US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think you are allowed to bring African Giant snails in the US without a special permit. They reproduce very quickly and are quite destructive to vegitaion.

    Though I though African giant snails were the size of a fist.

  2. Re:In the blog by p0rnking · · Score: 3, Informative

    Man seeks square deal, patents wheel
    /. article

  3. Hang on, lets establish some standards here... by spagetti_code · · Score: 3, Informative
    The problem is that they were comparing snails travelling over very short distances (cms) to pigeons travelling 100km. To take that to its illogical conclusion, a photon (carrying, say, 8 bits of color information) travels 1um in 1/3x10^14 secs. Therefore this is carrying 3x10^14 bytes/sec or about 300Tbytes/sec. That rivals the 747 carrying DVDs.

    I think if we are going to establish bandwidth records we need to establish distance too. I suggest 100kms is probably a pretty good minimum measure to make sense.

  4. THAN, for the love of... THAN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear Editors:

    Faster THAN. Faster THAN. Faster THAN.

    Same as:

    Smarter THAN. Better THAN. Other THAN. Fatter THAN. Uglier THAN. Costs more THAN. Performs better THAN. More difficult THAN. Takes more effort THAN. Tastes better THAN. Prints more clearly THAN. More structured THAN. More anonymous THAN. More cowardly THAN. More falsely THAN.

    Basic idea:

    THAN - used in comparison statements.
    THEN - used to demonstrate cause-and-effect