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NASA Wants Second Life On The Moon
Posted by Mark Wilson at 3:40 AM on April 5, 2008
A sense of community is important to NASA. That's why they opened a NASA mansion for parties and just hanging out, hacking software and making Uranus jokes. But the NASA mansion was only good during the night. NASA's Andrew Hoppin explains how Second Life allowed connections during the day.
...we got employees from all around NASA - the 10 geographies around the country - showing up at these Tuesday afternoon meetings. We formed a community of NASA and non-NASA, started coworking in Second Life. Cultural change started to take place at the agency...But Hoppin would like to see this cultural change happen far, far outside the agency:
We are all learning how to use virtual environments so when we go back to the moon, we can collaborate better. We can go for the ride in a participatory collaborative kind of way.I can see it now. "We've lost thrusters, we're going down!!"
*NASA employee walks in with 10-foot clown penis*
"Am I late?"
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marlblank
Posted 4:27 AM 5/4/08
Second life news:
Nasa builds moon in digital world.
Concerned citizens remark: That's no moon...
marlblank
BtownDesignGuy
Posted 4:26 AM 5/4/08
What kind of latency issues would they have on the moon? At the speed of light, it takes light roughly 1 1/3 seconds to go from the Earth to the Moon, so you're looking at a latency of at *least* 1333ms, even in ideal conditions. Unless they can find a way to establish an IP connection through a temporal distortion. Ha!
BtownDesignGuy
Derigor
Posted 3:56 AM 5/4/08
This is just a cover up to allow them to play WoW on the moon/mir space station. "It's not a raid! I am in a meeting right now"
Derigor
excel_excel
Posted 3:53 AM 5/4/08
"Uranus? they changed the name of that planet years ago to stop that horrible joke once and for all"
"whats it called now?"
"Urectum."
excel_excel
Krondonian
Posted 3:52 AM 5/4/08
I'm rather slow here, but are they proposing to have a Moon within Second Life, or set up a network on the moon?
Imagine the latency.
Krondonian
illmatic291
Posted 3:50 AM 5/4/08
Well this by far seems like their best way of reaching out to Generation Y. I personally would rather apply for the real thing over sitting in front of a computer screen playing, i mean paying for a game.
illmatic291
Stryker412
Posted 6:39 AM 5/4/08
Is there really a NASA area in SL? What's that picture from?
Stryker412
TemplaerDude
Posted 6:22 AM 5/4/08
Seriously, why do you guys give this program so much news coverage? It's really really bad.
TemplaerDude
topaz420
Posted 7:07 AM 5/4/08
I used to love SL -- they lost me when they went from a libertarian "government" to a totalitarian one.
topaz420
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
Posted 1:54 PM 5/4/08
We're perverts on the moon!
Our wangs are like harpoons!
Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.
Antihippy
Posted 11:45 AM 5/4/08
Flying penis alien confirmed?
So there.
Antihippy
Purple Dave
Posted 6:14 PM 5/4/08
@BtownDesignGuy:
All they need to do is invent the ansible. Oh, wait. Wrong sci-fi property. Um...can I do the countdown? Ten. Nine. Eightsevensixfivefourthreetwooneblastoff.
Purple Dave