NASA Wants its MMO Created for Free

fyc writes "It seems that the educational MMORPG NASA's proposing will no longer have a budget of $3 million. Instead, any prospective development partner is being asked to create and maintain the MMORPG for free under a 'non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement'. It won't be a one-sided agreement, though. From NASA's RFP: 'In exchange for a collaborator's investment to create and manage a NASA-based MMO game for fun and to enhance STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics], NASA will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities.'"

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IMO

[jo42]

If Google doesn't do this, for free, than they are Truly Evil©(tm).

Re:Where's the budget go?

[Iamthecheese]

Damn it, I'm going to be modded troll for this rant, but I'm sick of hearing that!

In the last three years we "could have" spent the money now used on the war for:
Curing America's infrastructure problem;
Giving tax breaks to the middle class, thus revitalizing the economy;
Making lots of solar cells;
Making lots of wind turbines;
Making fission work;
Converting all the cars to electric power;
Designing cool new robots to do everything for us;
Exploring the solar system;
Feeding all the world's poor;
Educating all the world's poor
Curing AIDs, curing cancer, curing diabetes, Curing aging;
Funding good science in Americe;
Giving everyone in America an education;
Bringing America's crime rate down to almost nothing;
And many, many more.

The problem here is that we can only do one or two of all of those things. If the money were used to cure AIDS, it wouldn't be there to make solar cells, and so forth. For instant karma, just say, "With the money now spent on the war, we could "