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The space agency is looking into creating a massively multiplayer online game as an educational tool.
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Spock
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Warp (5) Engines Are Now Online - Go For Launch...
To Boldly Go.........
Live Long And Prosper...........
Spock
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Look where thought go you.
NASA should consider participating in a kind of a mashup. Google Earth is (partly at least) going to be a VR/gaming environment anyway, eventually. The Google Earth environment can easily be extended to contain popular astronomy software data and features, like the proper position and dimensions of other celestial bodies. Even lightspeed lag and even gravitational disturbances in spacetime could be simulated.
For the 'gameplay', the physics and the sense of reality in Orbiter is the best currently available, despite the fact that sound and graphics are rather poor regarding nowadays standards and the controls are just horrible.
Personally I welcome the initiative very much.
For those who don't know Orbiter, just give it a try. Don't mind the difficult controls, just run one of the scripts. A simple shuttle launch as a passenger for instance is just marvelous. Sit back and enjoy.
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- by Commander_Spock January 18, 2008 5:07 PM PST
- ... should take over the development of OS/2 from IBM and be the Central Control/Command for the development of the "WARP 6" and subsequent Kernels Versions. One World - Mankind. :-) !
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