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NASA Launches Moonbase Alpha
Several readers have sent word that today NASA launched Moonbase Alpha, an online game with single- and multi-player capability that "allows participants to step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement." The game is available now through Steam for free. Moonbase Alpha was built as a precursor to an upcoming NASA MMO called Astronaut: Moon, Mars & Beyond, and they hope it will be "a proof of concept to show how NASA content can be combined with a cutting-edge game engine to inspire, engage and educate students about agency technologies, job opportunities and the future of space exploration."
Glad to see they got this done and available before NASA had to shift its mission over to the administration's new priority for the agency . After all, what could be more important than a condescending, platitudinous mission (the foremost mission, says NASA's director) to boost the self esteem of a specific religious culture?
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Is this how screwed up NASA is
No, this isn't even close to how screwed NASA is getting. Just check out what NASA's director says is Obama's foremost task for his agency: it's really fun .
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
As far as bad analogies go, that's the one Hitler would have made.
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More importantly, how does this effort help those people in Muslim countries feel about their culture's contribution to the understanding of science and medicine? According to the head of NASA, that is their 'foremost priority'!
Ken