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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. Not really talented by Smoke2Joints · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wouldnt call Second Life players especially talented