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from john parres, to IP:

I just noticed the cool WIRED story "Around the World in 80 Clicks"
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/start.html?pg=7 about NASA's
World Wind open source app that displays 10 terabytes of Earth imagery
on demand so I thought I would give it a spin (heh).

The story says "...When project manager Patrick Hogan unleashed World
Wind, one of NASA's servers collapsed under a deluge of download
requests - 100,000 a day - and the service went offline. This spring,
it's back, with a bigger server..." and a BitTorrent link!
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

It's nice to see USA government scientists making use of P2P to save
taxpayers' money.

JP

# posted by John @ 9:43 AM