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Radical Transparency at NASA Via Second Life

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gaaames-in-spaaace dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Rowe over at Wired has an article about a couple of young scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center working to open source the space program through software development and other ways to allow the public to participate in real NASA programs. According to Robert Schingler, the NASA CoLab project manager, 'CoLab is building an infrastructure to encourage and facilitate direct participation from the talented and interested public...' Apparently, the group holds weekly meetings on their island in the popular online virtual world Second Life."

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  1. Error Message by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
    Hey, that's a funny kind of "transparency". But I bet this is about what this all will amount to...
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  2. Obligatory by andy314159pi · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure that I want to see seven foot tall wieners running around NASA.

  3. Re:Opensource virtual free labor game? by QuantumG · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's confusing to you because you're:

    1. a consumer, if someone hasn't put it in a package, you're not interested.
    2. a conformist, if there's no rules to follow, you get confused.
    3. not very creative, if we left you in a sandpit by yourself you wouldn't even make castles.
    4. a nazi, you can't just let people have their fun without berating them for enjoying things you don't understand.

    Chill out.

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