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NASA BlueMarble: Next Generation
gbnewby writes "Remember the NASA Blue Marble composite image of earth from space, completely cloud free? Today a whole new series was released showing earth scenes from cloudless days across all 12 months of 2004. These beautiful images come in many different resolutions and formats. NASA even provided some animations. We and others have set up web, ftp and rsync mirrors; let the Torrents begin!"
Slashdot Saturn later!
I set up a 386 to mirror the 22 gigs of data with my 56k modem connection right here. Not too many at once, please
Those of us true uber-geeks have IPv6, where localhost is ::1.
So ha!
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What file format are they going to use?
:)
The file name is world.200412.3x86400x43200.bin.gz
Clearly they went with the bin format
We've /.ed an entire planet.
Windows Tweaks
Well the earth is flat...
Religion for nerds. Stuff that really matters
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
Let see
5% > 1%
50% > 1%
99% > 15
Works for me.
If > and confuse you just remember:
the alligator is hungry so the mouth opens towards the bigger meal.
ACMD eht detaloiv evah uoy
Umm the images clearly show that the world is in fact flat. These new fangled "globes" that you see in places of "science" actually compress the north and south edges of the world in order to fit the world map on a sphere.
How are you supposed to play this?
sic transit gloria mundi
Dude, this is Slashdot. We're going to parse the URL list using a Perl script and then run wget -i on the resulting output, saving the files to the directory /usr/share/marble and using chmod to set appropriate permissions for our machine's users.
Right click save as. Pfft.