- 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
@troubleMoney but wait.
A microSD card occupies a volume of 0.165 mL.
A 45' hi-cube intermodal container has an internal volume of 86020 L. This means that you can fit 521 million microSD cards in one such intermodal container.
This means you can fit 133.5 EB of data on the back of a large truck, substantially more than you could launch with a trebuchet.
@Felthry @troubleMoney But the internet isn't a big truck, it's a series of tubes.
So, a residential water supply line is typically 3/4" or 1" in the US, apparently, with 40-45 PSI being typical. Let's go with 1" - broadband! - and 45 PSI, and I think that comes out to about 40 gallons per minute.
At 15 x 11 x 1 mm (0.165 cc) per card, 40 gallons of SD cards is about 917,676 SD cards.
At 256 GiB per card, you're looking at 29.87 pebibits per second.
@bhtooefr @Felthry @troubleMoney
Hahaha So what's the total bandwidh of a cargo ship like the CSCL Globe capable of transporting 19100 twenty-foot containers (at 39k litres each)?
I suppose you would have to factor in distance from China to England for example, throughtput wouldn't be the same when shipping to Sydney.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSCL_Globe
@bhtooefr @Felthry @troubleMoney All this makes evident that a new unit is needed to measure bytes per gallon per mile (or bytes per litre per kilometer)
@haitch @bhtooefr @troubleMoney I think the most relevant unit would be byte-meters per second
