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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. What happened? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You very rarely ever see off topic first posts anymore. I miss them...

  2. DOOMED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As soon as we get V.R. neural connectors that offer full control of the senses, we as a civilization are fucking DOOMED.

  3. The horrors of second life [NSFW] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here are a few links, deteriorating in horror and decrepitude about the online sensation known as second life.

    http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,69878-0.html

    http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=4410

    http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh...ay_in_seco.h tml

    http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh...al_child_p.h tml

    This is beyond sad & lonely. I'm not judging the depravity of the acts, which given 10 minutes I could dream up much worse. What I'm amazed by is that this fringe world is a nexus for like-minded people to act out THE SAME fantasies. You'd think in perversion and depravity people would finally truly be unique. It turns out there's a whole alternate universe of people just like them. Welcome to the fringes of conformity?

    it seems that despite the interweb bringing us all closer together, humans seem to be getting lonelier all the time. the irony is that the more self-absorbed we get, the more we want to share our self-absorption with others.

    Solipsism loves company

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

    I wouldnt call Second Life players especially talented