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by mensetmanusman 2283 days ago
This seems like a good use of torrenting?
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maerF0x0 2283 days ago
It looks like they were aware of Bit torrent as recent as Oct 2011

https://web.archive.org/web/20111024223108/https://visibleea...

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caymanjim 2283 days ago
Torrents are only helpful when there's a large number of people who download the data and are willing to share it. There's not a large userbase for the vast majority of NASA data. It wouldn't be distributed in any meaningful way.
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mensetmanusman 2280 days ago
Maybe various world governments could bandwidth to accomplish these types of missions.
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