Issue 31482: Huge amount of goats teleported (2010)

Some context: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/03/crack...

> Unbeknownst to most users, Google's Chrome Web browser is powered by a distributed array of goats. In order to prevent the creatures from clogging the tubes, Google uses teleportation to move them between endpoints on the network. A hidden feature in Chrome's task manager allows users to see the total number of goats that are actively being teleported for each running browser tab. In Chrome's task manager, right-click the task table—check the "Goats Teleported" item in the context menu.

I love this but… what the hell am I reading?

Also they really missed an opportunity to reference “Gbps” (goat bites per second).

Is this a simple, absurdist joke, some obscure reference, sophisticsted play on words or an elaborate innuendo?

"5 goats will be enough for anybody" - larry page

Sadly it appears that they are no longer surfacing that statistic.

We will never know how many goats an M2 MPB can teleport...

> I was hoping she would be happy with getting a little more goat than she had ordered, but apparently the extra head isn't attached in a flattering manner.

Don't look your gift goat in the mouths!

Lovely. Reminds me of about:mozilla; it scared me the first time I read it a long time ago... I thought it was some kind of cult and I was now part of it.