If you think you know how tedious downloading digital vacation pictures on a laptop can be, imagine sifting through 800 terabytes of files from the furthest reaches of the Universe.Chances are that much data would tie up your Internet connection for the next several years. That is unless you have a super high-speed Internet2 connection, like the one the Arecibo radio telescope installed in late 2001. Since then, this fattest of fat pipes has fundamentally changed the way the telescope is used and by whom.
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