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[theweaselking]

NASA to make the Apollo footage available, online, for free, in high resolution.

And by "high", I mean the panoramic camera will be in 25400 x 244000, with a final file size of over 10GB/image.

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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Want.

[kafziel.livejournal.com]

WANT

[squizzlzilla.livejournal.com]

WANT

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

SEXWITHTHEBANDWIDTH

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

And by "high", I mean the panoramic camera will be in 25400 x 244000, with a final file size of over 10GB/image.

I would argue that, in this case, they're not really available, except to a very, very small population.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Smaller versions will be available, and the images from the smaller cameras won't be anywhere near that size.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's cool.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Three year process and there are already terabyte external hardrives on the market. By the time the job is done it won't be unusual for 2 terabyte hardrives which could hold images of that size decently. It may take a while for the torrent of the image to be downloaded, but there will likely be enough storage space on the PC's of the time to handle it.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I'm more concerned with the fact that the bandwidth doesn't exist in the US to expend 10GB on a single image. That's several days of downloading for a home cable/DSL connection, and not much better for a university pipe.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Several days of downloading is still feasible and the bandwidth will improve with time. They are starting to put down fiberoptics, though it is still in the early days.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That's three hours on a home cable connection, by my math.

10GB/(900kb/s) = 3.05hr

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

What kind of crazy connection do you have that can sustain a single download at 900kps for three hours? I don't have a T1 running to my apartment.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Home cable internet, from Rogers.

You mean you *can't* get that kind of speed down from government sites, and other places with a nice big pipe?

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Nope.

It may just be a national difference- for a developed country, the US's internet backbone is weak. Shame I don't speak Korean...

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

My slow internet (by the standards of my peers) only does 600 KB/sec, sustained, if the server can. 900 is hardly all *that* much.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Where do you live?

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

In the Netherlands, where paying 50E/mo for 6000/768 is considered to be about 2-2.5 times too much for 1.5-2 times too slow. But then again, changing providers sucks and for that matter all providers that aren't the one I'm with suck wrt services provided and reliability, so.. Enh.

[the-colombian.livejournal.com]

All money spent by NASA that could have gone to programs that actually benefit human beings...

*sigh*

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

Public interest has a direct correlary to NASA funding.

No other government body has a more leit claim to money spent on generating public interest.

Hell, to be honest, space exploration makes ZERO sense, on paper.
It's ability to generate wonder and thus funding from that blind hope is the entire dynamic of the space program.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

There's a long, long list of inventions that came out of funding the space program.

Suffice it to say, there's a LOT of things we wouldn't have without NASA.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

I'm aware of the benefits but secondary technology development like that is also true of war, neither party has ever successfully used that argument to sway public opinion.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Coming back to this thread a month later, I'd like to point out that the username is "Atlas Impure" and that a long-time complaint of Objectivist/Libertarian types is that NASA is an industrial subsidy program.