April 06, 2005

.Gov uses BitTorrent!

Posted at April 6, 2005 08:16 PM in e-Gov .

Trust NASA to break new technological ground. For the first time ever (as far as I know), the government is using BitTorrent to distribute a file! It's accessible to anyone who wants to download NASA's World Wind, which "lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there." It is a truly fantastic experience and, even if it's limited to Windows right now, NASA's released it as open source so anyone can have a crack at it.

I hesitate to suggest this, but... Is the government starting to "get it"?

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