Originally Posted by
Rodin
I started to respond to this, looked up the distance between the villages (3 days running speed), and saw a huge argument about just how superhumanly fast ninja run, and decided to give up. When the first estimate is 27,000 KM (more than half the circumference of the Earth), what's the point?
Suffice to say that with the level of technology displayed I believe they WOULD have have had long range communication capability of reaching the sand village without requiring a hard cable connecting the two villages. And certainly there must be faster ways than sending a bloody bird.