Upcoming MMO
 

This looks interesting. NASA is getting into the MMO business:

http://www.space.com/entertainment/090219-nasa-mmo.html

Ewh... educational mmo?

whut the flippers? xD

It looks fun. I've been in a couple of Mission Control/Shuttle launch/ops simulators and they were a blast.

I'm confused.

NASA is funded by government tax money. NASA is creating MMOs. Government tax money is funding the creation of MMOs by NASA?

Am I missing something here? ._.

Nope, that's about the long and short of it. This isn't exactly a new idea. The Army developed a FPS, after all. It became rather popular if I recall. America's Army was the name, I think.

How exactly will you level up and stuff though? just rising through the ranks? will you have to fight a random robot which controls the space shuttle and wants to kill you after you destroy it? O_O

and where will the real MMO parts come into play? it should be interesting to see...

EDIT: Phew, i just made it within the necro margin... sorry... x.x

Yeah, there are a lot of questions about it this early in the development process. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. On a side note, the necro thing isn't exactly set in stone. Since your post actually raised some pertinent questions and wasn't just "LOL" or "I agree", you wouldn't have been popped for a violation. No worries.

Oh, ok.

But yeah... random battles with HAL would be strange... O___o

it'll probably be more along the lines of expansion of exploration though... that makes a bit more sense, if you think about it. like, assign a captain, design a ship, use the right controls, etc... it'll be interesting, to say the least... hope they dont screw it up...

-Presses the self destruct button in a satellite- Houston, we have a problem.