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.htmlThere 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%D9http://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%E0%F1%8Da%E0%0F%C4AE%97%9BN%B8%9D%E9%88%9CKRqhttp://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%28%D4%07e%3B%E4P%16d%B0%E2xT%FC%A1mu0Q%F2
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?
>>128428According to the filenames, these look like they're actually from 2004.
>>128430I guess you're right. Thanks.
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.
>>128447You 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.
what's the avarage resolution?
>>12852263563736734634x46534576426
oh mah hardcore fail....lets make a gif animation with them, in the same resolution.
>>128447I think you're exaggerating. Even before I recently upgraded my comp I managed to open JPGs of 10 megabytes and these are smaller.
>>128573how is 1.3GB smaller than 10MB?
>>128574CAUSE 1.3 < 10, DUH
This thread made my day.Cool pics by the way.
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.
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%D9world.200401.3x21600x21600.panels.png.tarPictures of the Worldhttp://torrent.gsfc.nasa.gov/file?info_hash=%E0%F1%8Da%E0%0F%C4AE%97%9BN%B8%9D%E9%88%9CKRqapollo_640.movWhat 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%F2apollo_hd.movSame as above, in HD.The last two are particularly awesome, but I think they are CG :-/
>>128579Absolutely FAILED
>>128893IF 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.
>>128893>>128899Guys, 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/
>>1289944chan helping out NASA. LOL.
>>128994NASA is more in need of someone to teach them the difference between the english and the metric system, lol.
>>129049s/NASA/Boeing/g, idiot.
>>129075wtf?
>>129013That's destiny XD
>>129081It was a Boeing contractor that screwed up the US->Metric conversion, not a NASA employee.
>>129252That'd be Lockheed Martin, not Boeing, fool.
>>129260Hm. It appears that I was wrong.Thanks for the correction, jerk!
>>128425WOW!!! I CAN SEE MY HOUSE IN THIS PIC!!!>>128579You 4chan guys make me LOL
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
>>129503Feel 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.
>>129507yeas, you have to skin it onto a 3d shape for it to be accurately represtantivethats why they try to take artistic liberties by resizing proportions on 2d maps to make them seem more reasonable by percieved proprtion.