"World Wind": Free cool stuff from NASA!
Neo-Anarchists
24-02-2005, 00:15
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html
This program is awesome. It's...
Well, it's a thingy that shows Earth, and you can zoom in and stuff. It was in Wired Magazine, and I can't figure out how to make it do the really cool stuff yet, but it still rocks.
It's too bad it's almost a 200 meg download... All the add-on packs are massive too.
:(
I have an old computer.
Can I use it??
EmoBuddy
24-02-2005, 00:23
Downloading...13% done. (I have DSL.)
Neo-Anarchists
24-02-2005, 00:24
I have an old computer.
Can I use it??
How much RAM does it have?
Here are the system requirements:
System Requirements
* Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
* Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher
* 256 MB of RAM
* 3D Graphics Card
o nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
o ATI Radeon 7500
o Intel Extreme Graphics 2
* DSL / Cable connection or faster
* 2 GB of disk space
Neo-Anarchists
24-02-2005, 00:25
Agrh, I can't seem to get it to connect to their servers properly at the moment. That would explain why it's not working. So for me, it's mostly a big cool 3D map.
Grr, I wanna do cooler cool stuff too.
:(
Neo-Anarchists
24-02-2005, 00:30
:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
Son of a bitch!
World Wind comes with data you can zoom into. After a certain point, World Wind will begin to download more images automatically. The servers hosting this information are very busy and may be unresponsive until we get the necessary infrastructure.
So that's why I can't access it!
Vittos Ordination
24-02-2005, 00:30
32%
Jordaxia
24-02-2005, 00:31
Damn you, 56k... damn you... much as I'd love to get this... it's those two numbers and letters that ruin it... I can't be bothered leaving my pc on for so long to get it.
Vittos Ordination
24-02-2005, 00:33
Halfway to awesomeness
Damn you, 56k... damn you... much as I'd love to get this... it's those two numbers and letters that ruin it... I can't be bothered leaving my pc on for so long to get it.
you could try downloading it at intervals over the space of several years?
Something "free" from a US government agency? Thanks, but no thanks.
Neo-Anarchists
24-02-2005, 00:36
Grr. The awesomeness isn't happening, since I haven't yet been able to connect with their servers...
:(
False-alarm for awesomeness. It doesn't work properly.
Vittos Ordination
24-02-2005, 00:43
Grr. The awesomeness isn't happening, since I haven't yet been able to connect with their servers...
:(
False-alarm for awesomeness. It doesn't work properly.
I downloaded 100% of awesomeness and it says the file is corrupt. :mad:
Bajakens Untamed Wild
24-02-2005, 00:44
This program is the coolest thing ever.
oh, and if you keep getting the "cannot connect, retrying in 2 mins" or whatever message, there's a patchy-thingy at the website. But yeah, I've spent hours and hours just looking at stuff. I had it before they had the landmarks in it, so I actually had to hunt down stuff like the pyramids.
Get it.
Use it.
Love it.
Oh, and get blockland too. That game is killer: www.ageoftime.com/blockland