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According to The Christian Science Monitor, a precursor to NASA's own MMORPG went live earlier this week. "Moonbase Alpha" is a free to play game that you download and then play online with other people to do...whatever it is astronauts do. It's apparently based more about fixing a lunar base after a meteor partially trashes that about collecting rock to bring back to Earth, so I'm not really sure if this is indicative of what astronauts really do.
This is, after all, a big ploy by NASA to get more people - specifically children - specifically children who like video games - more interested in space. I guess it worked for the army.
Lemme know if you played it and liked it: I'm curious to see if it's popular.
Also, I have to say that I love the quote from the dude at Goddard. When asked about whether or not it was wise to leave the game set on the moon even as NASA canned its next plan to go to the moon, the project manager replies, "The moon's not going anywhere." Is this a commentary on the fact that man doesn't need to get to the moon NOW in order for space science to get forward? Does this dude just not give a shit about what other people think? Or is trying to shut up the reporter so he can get back to work? Scientists and engineers give some great quotes.
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