US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator

transient writes "BBC reports that the US military is creating a second Earth with help from There. At the moment, only Kuwait City has been modeled, but the ultimate goal is to model the entire Earth using existing terrain data and a super-accurate physics model. While combat will be part of the game, 'the emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware.'"

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Re:Kuwait City

[giminy]

I was about to say the same thing. The US military planning to attack the actual enemy is somewhat unheard of in this day and age. This could be a paradigm shift in the way pre-emptive strikes operate...