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NASA Takes Gamers on a Lunar Adventure With New Online Video Game
NASA ^ | July 6, 2010 | Staff

Posted on 07/07/2010 8:40:20 AM PDT by C19fan

NASA has given gamers a taste of lunar adventure with release of Moonbase Alpha, an exciting new, free online video game.

The game has single and multiplayer options that allow participants to step into the role of an exploration team member in a futuristic 3-D lunar settlement. Players must work to restore critical systems and oxygen flow after a meteor strike cripples a solar array and life support equipment. Available resources include an interactive command center, lunar rover, mobile robotic repair units and a fully-stocked equipment shed.

(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Science
KEYWORDS: moon; nasa; space1999
Space 1999 ping, hee hee. Does the game include Maya??? Or is this the Muslim friendly version where there is a mosque and minerat on Moonbase Muhammad?
1 posted on 07/07/2010 8:40:28 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Do you get to make lunar rover car bombs? What about beheadings in zero atmosphere?


2 posted on 07/07/2010 8:43:07 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: C19fan

Well thanks to Obama, lunar exploration will just have to remain in games and other forms of fiction...


3 posted on 07/07/2010 8:44:11 AM PDT by Lysandru
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WTF? Shouldn’t NASA be working on Islamic rocketry?


4 posted on 07/07/2010 8:44:32 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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There had better be muslims in this game......could make them feel bad to be left out.


5 posted on 07/07/2010 8:45:44 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Well maybe they could have you start the game with a scimitar as a weapon rather than a chainsaw.


6 posted on 07/07/2010 8:47:11 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Stop the change - I want to get off!)
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To: C19fan

Sent the link to my 20 yr. old gamer son. ;o)


7 posted on 07/07/2010 8:47:18 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Dallas59

It’s a Crescent Moon game.


8 posted on 07/07/2010 8:47:33 AM PDT by bleach (Sarah, Wake me in 2012)
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To: C19fan

It’s Obama’s NASA. The game is probably a trojan designed to monitor your internet activity and empty your bank accounts.


9 posted on 07/07/2010 8:51:31 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Internet games and soothing Muslim egos.

Yep. That is what NASA was always supposed to be about! (sarc)

10 posted on 07/07/2010 9:03:21 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: C19fan

I’m downloading it. What the hell, it looks entertaining. I expect that it will not come with an invoice for the cost of the moonbase project, or a justifiaction for the expnediture. I’ll let you know if the game allows me to build a mosque there.


11 posted on 07/07/2010 9:06:59 AM PDT by sig226 (Bring back Jimmy Carter!!!)
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What about beheadings in zero atmosphere?

Priceless...LOL

12 posted on 07/07/2010 9:22:10 AM PDT by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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I wonder how I’m gonna figure out which way mecca is?


13 posted on 07/07/2010 9:23:26 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: Eyes Unclouded


Here's a screen shot ...
14 posted on 07/07/2010 9:30:02 AM PDT by Scythian
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Are you out of your mind man?! Showing a picture of the prophet will get us all killed!

Seriously is that a real game somewhere or just a still picture?


15 posted on 07/07/2010 9:51:17 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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