visibleearth.nasa.gov — NASA has been experimenting with BT for a while, but it's only recently that it's started using it for its massive picture library, "Visible Earth". Previously you needed to be an accredited journalist to get these files - now, thanks to BitTorrent, you can download them for yourself. Finally, a desktop background for your 86400 x 43200 monitor!
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ezkielJan 28, 2006
"well its true i didnt open it but im sure that 6 ghz of processing power, an x850xtpe 256mb, and a gig of ram can open this thing. btw, can the guy with 90% done seed for a while when he finishies?pishi posted by pishi (1) "Considering jpg is a compressed format which has to be decompressed into video ram to show up your going to need a hell of a lot more than a gb of ram to open this.
leachim_6Jan 28, 2006
get one of those printers that they use to print the blue-prints for houses you know the big flatbead ones lol
waterdragonJan 28, 2006
This day will be known as the day that NASA hacked and shut down all those pesky Diggers!
tominator1983Jan 28, 2006
Ok I figured it out...Just download all the different PNG files. They're technically just slices of the larger, 11 gig image.The PDF's at the top of the nasa page tell which PNG file corresponds to which slice of the larger image.So theoretically, while you might not be able to open the 11 gig bin image, you should be able to create a blank 86400 x 43200 document in photoshop and paste the PNG files into it one at a time.Photoshop will use hard drive swap space to handle it (because it's not having to handle compressed images). You can then save it off as a photoshop large format file (requires CS2, I think?).So there ya go.
beansproutFeb 5, 2006
There's no point downloading this - World Wind (<a class="user" href="http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)">http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)</a> displays it by default, and you can choose from the 12 months of the year, too.Here's a screenshot:<a class="user" href="http://www.worldwindcentral.com/hotspots/view_hotspot.php?id=1629">http://www.worldwindcentral.com/hotspots/view_hotspot.php?id=1629</a>Amazing stuff.
delhoumeFeb 9, 2006
As the author of Vliv (<a class="user" href="http://vlivviewer.free.fr/vliv.htm)">http://vlivviewer.free.fr/vliv.htm)</a> I have converted the 11 Gigabytes image to a multiresolution tiled tiff.Vliv opens this on any machine. Zooming/Unzooming and Panning is very fast.Final image is 2,793,806,814 bytes.If you are intersted in having this image please contact me.
panzerfinder15Feb 24, 2006
Ok, so I hope this is helpful to everyone. I actually opened it with Photoshop CS1. Here is what I did. I renamed the file to a .raw. then opened using the "open as" command under file. I opened it as a Photoshop Raw document. It is a 3 channel document, so make sure you set it to a three channel mode when opening. I set the resolution to what the image is, and I set the channel count to 3 and the bit depth to 8. Hope this helps anyone. By the way, it won't crash your computer as long as you have a large paging file. Here are my specs. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with 1GB DDR400 RAM and a 250 GB HD. It took my computer almost 20 minutes to open. It is a beautiful picture and well worth it.
spangemonkeeMar 9, 2006
sens wrote: how about putting on a DVD, taking it to a print shop, and having the coolest hi-res photo ever as wallpaper on your biggest wall?Anyone have any idea what that would cost?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I work for a print company and I'm gonna try to print it. I'm hessitant to open a 10GB file on a 1.8 G5 with only 3GB of RAM. :)It would prolly take an hour to send to the printer(s)We have grand format printers that can print up to 16' wide. I'll try to convince the boss to let me print a banner 16' tall. We shall see.