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ZOMG /hr/ planet Anonymous
There are some pretty amazingly large images available from NASA via BitTorrent. All are seeded by NASA and have given me pretty good speeds (150-200KB/s).

There's a page of monthly images of the planet at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.html

There are a bunch of other torrents available directly from the tracker at http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/

I am seeding three of them now:

http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%40%CD%16%E7%08%0D_V%FDb%E00x%E3%0B%B0BIC%D9
http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%E0%F1%8Da%E0%0F%C4AE%97%9BN%B8%9D%E9%88%9CKRq
http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%28%D4%07e%3B%E4P%16d%B0%E2xT%FC%A1mu0Q%F2
>> Anonymous
Awesome, sir, awesome! I was looking for these for a long time now, had no idea they had it available like that. Thank you.

One question, though: how can they have images for december there? It's last year's, right?
>> Anonymous
>>128428
According to the filenames, these look like they're actually from 2004.
>> Anonymous
>>128430
I guess you're right. Thanks.
>> Anonymous
A word of warning for anyone man enough to download one of these images:

They are probably too big to be opened on your PC so only download them if you are a 'collector' and you download things just to have them. That is all.
>> Anonymous
>>128447
You just have to have a decent rig with some good video memory to avoid excessive swapping. But technically anyone could open them if they have the necessary space (physical or virtual), however slow as hell it might be.
>> Akira.h
what's the avarage resolution?
>> Anonymous
>>128522
63563736734634x46534576426
>> Anonymous
oh mah hardcore fail....
lets make a gif animation with them, in the same resolution.
>> Anonymous
>>128447
I think you're exaggerating. Even before I recently upgraded my comp I managed to open JPGs of 10 megabytes and these are smaller.
>> Anonymous
>>128573
how is 1.3GB smaller than 10MB?
>> Jesus !z.LOLm8x3o
>>128574
CAUSE 1.3 < 10, DUH
>> Lev !zD.tvziESg
This thread made my day.

Cool pics by the way.
>> Anonymous
I posted these a while ago.

Also, the torrents don't come in one big file. They come in several; 6 if my memory served me correctly.
>> Anonymous
I suppose it would have helped to say what the files were that I was seeding, durr.

http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%40%CD%16%E7%08%0D_V%FDb%E00x%E3%0B%B0BIC%D9
world.200401.3x21600x21600.panels.png.tar
Pictures of the World

http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%E0%F1%8Da%E0%0F%C4AE%97%9BN%B8%9D%E9%88%9CKRq
apollo_640.mov
What it looked like to take off in the Apollo, looking back at the Earth. 640x480?

http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%28%D4%07e%3B%E4P%16d%B0%E2xT%FC%A1mu0Q%F2
apollo_hd.mov
Same as above, in HD.

The last two are particularly awesome, but I think they are CG :-/
>> Anonymous
>>128579

Absolutely FAILED
>> Jesus !z.LOLm8x3o
>>128893
IF YOU COULDN'T DETECT THE BLATANT AND OBVIOUS SARCASM IN MY REMARK, THEN IT WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD IDEA FOR YOU TO GTFO, LOL.
>> Anonymous
>>128893
>>128899
Guys, come on...

Unfortunately, it appears that NASAs seed has dropped, so your seeds will be needed now more than before.

http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/
>> Anonymous
>>128994
4chan helping out NASA. LOL.
>> Jesus !z.LOLm8x3o
>>128994
NASA is more in need of someone to teach them the difference between the english and the metric system, lol.
>> Anonymous
>>129049
s/NASA/Boeing/g, idiot.
>> Anonymous
>>129075
wtf?
>> Anonymous
>>129013

That's destiny XD
>> Anonymous
>>129081
It was a Boeing contractor that screwed up the US->Metric conversion, not a NASA employee.
>> Anonymous
>>129252
That'd be Lockheed Martin, not Boeing, fool.
>> Anonymous
>>129260
Hm. It appears that I was wrong.

Thanks for the correction, jerk!
>> Anonymous
>>128425
WOW!!! I CAN SEE MY HOUSE IN THIS PIC!!!

>>128579
You 4chan guys make me LOL
>> Anonymous
LOL I always laugh at how these maps are horribly out of scale. Look at that, freaking Alaska looks almost as big as Brazil in that map O_o
>> kenn
>>129503
Feel free to reproject it. There's enough resolution available that you could reproject it to your favorite equal-area projection and still have really high quality.
>> first this is the best thread evarr Anonymous
>>129507
yeas, you have to skin it onto a 3d shape for it to be accurately represtantive

thats why they try to take artistic liberties by resizing proportions on 2d maps to make them seem more reasonable by percieved proprtion.