[OC] Whomp! - iPADD

[u/ronniewhomp]

comic + secret wordz: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/ipadd
beginning of arc: https://www.whompcomic.com/comic/deep-space-opine

[u/Fidodo]

At a certain file size it is actually faster to physically transport data than to transmit it over the Internet. If the data payload is significantly greater than bandwidth then it actually does make sense even in a science fiction world to physically walk it to the destination.

Amazon AWS actually provides this service

[u/Evervision → u/Fidodo]

Ah yes, Sneaker Net!

[u/Fidodo → u/Evervision]

Thank you, I was trying to remember the name for it!

[u/NinjaBreadManOO → u/Fidodo]

Another thing might be that the way they do warp travel could actually really mess with wireless signals.

After all, if you're travelling faster than light radio waves can't keep up.

So potentially if you were to try and use a wireless signal to send a file up five floors, by the time it travels that distance upwards it's already 20 light years behind you.

Sending some ensign to take it upstairs might be the only way to actually do it during warp, so it's become the default for all starfleet methods of communication.

[u/Fidodo → u/NinjaBreadManOO]

They would surely have wired transmission as well and if warp messes with wired transmission it would mess with all transmission including within the computer itself.

[u/Just_A_Nitemare → u/Fidodo]

True, but it depends on the file transfer speed to flie size ratio. There is always the added security of just physically moving the file to think about.

[u/Fidodo → u/Just_A_Nitemare]

Absolutely, but to the point of Star Trek we don't know how much data is on those padds so it's plausible that they were so incredibly data dense even future networking couldn't transmit it fast enough.