NASA Releases World Viewer

Posted by michael on Friday September 24, 2004 @05:04AM from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

Klatoo55 writes "Nasa has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allows you to zoom from planetary resolution down to where you can pick out individual streets. Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection and a decent graphics card. There's all sorts of interesting features, such as the ability to tilt your view for a flight-sim like experience and a data display feature that shows current natural disasters, political boundaries, weather patterns, and landmarks on the Earth's surface, all while providing a dynamic satellite's eye view of the planet."

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Re:It certainly must be comprehensive... by tcopeland · 2004-09-24 05:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

> NASA isn't dumb enough to use BitTorrent.

Why would using BitTorrent be dumb?

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Was I the only one who read this as.... by gosand · 2004-09-24 06:15 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Was I the only one who read this as:
"NASA Releases Word Viewer"
I thought maybe NASA had developed some kind of program that could be used as a simple viewer for MS Word documents. I wonder why MS hasn't released something like this. Oh wait, I know why.

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Re:Gmail invite by omahajim · 2004-09-24 07:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

another please? and thank you.