The mother of one of my friends works with the Zooniverse[1] project, a citizen science effort. She was saying that one of their biggest problems is how to dist

The mother of one of my friends works with the Zooniverse[1] project, a citizen science effort. She was saying that one of their biggest problems is how to distribute their data to the public. I naïvely suggested BitTorrent, figuring the sets were in the 10s of gigabytes at most. She laughed and said that that wasn't a great way to distribute terabytes of data every few weeks. [1]: http://www.zooniverse.org/ http://www.zooniverse.org/