Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
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Data on a bird ? This will convince people about birds being drones more now.
Bird factor authentication. Please honk your seagull to unlock your ed25519-so ssh key
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
Hear me out! Bird factor authentication!
Please honk your seagull to unlock your ed25519-sk ssh key
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
You could find out which frame of the movie starlings like the best
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But, birds aren't real.
There are only flying dinosaurs.
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So a moving target of data you cant reliably recall and might get shot by someone looking for food. At least its neat though.
Average weight for a starling is less than 100g. The whole thing with head and feathers and bones and whatever. You'd have to be very hungry to hunt that. And I suspect if you shoot at it you'd pulverize it completely.
Though cats are going to be a problem.
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
B I R D S A R E N T R E A L
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
And they say physical media is dead!
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
We're finally getting tweets back
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
I like Benn Jordan a lot but I really doubt a bird can sing 2 MB / s. I saw the spectrogram and it looked pretty fuzzy
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Do you promise? All i want for Christmas is for starlings to fuck right off
Starlings are cooler than you, though.
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Well, technically the beak connects directly to the cloaca.
Technically your mouth connects directly to your asshole...
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
The video is by Benn Jordan, I wholeheartedly recommend this video and entire channel. Guy is a world treasure.
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And they say physical media is dead!
The average lifespan of a starling is usually between two and five years.
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Imagine the possibilities for piracy and secure messaging (provided that the birds don't snitch on you).
I was thinking about wind talkers becoming bird singers.
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B I R D S A R E N T R E A L
Yep, obviously a government funded drone if it only has 2Mb uplink
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The average lifespan of a starling is usually between two and five years.
This just gave me an idea for a new movie rental service. You'll never own anything. If we can get homing pigeons to learn movies, we could cut delivery costs
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2MB/s / 16Mbps is enough for 4K HEVC video and audio. In theory you could encode a full movie with enough starlings.
A million monkeys on typewriters is old news. Now we're gonna teach a million starlings to play back the entire bee movie.
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A music and science lover has revealed that some birds can store and retrieve digital data. Specifically, he converted a PNG sketch of a bird into an audio waveform, then tried to embed it in the song memory of a young starling, ready for later retrieval as an image. Benn Jordan made a video of this feat, sharing it on YouTube, and according to his calculations, the bird-based data transfer system could be capable of around 2 MB/s data speeds.
Well of course NSA's spy device can store information. We've known this for decades
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This just gave me an idea for a new movie rental service. You'll never own anything. If we can get homing pigeons to learn movies, we could cut delivery costs
They tried to make this a thing once :
If Disney did this, they'd probably just poison the birds so they die faster.
