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Although virtual lives have mostly been an indulgence for personal fantasies NASA now has enough real data to establish virtual planetary situations where engineers and technically minded people could try out habitats for exploring actual solar system planets using actual topology and environments. Visitors could try out new ideas and discover if they might be practical for actual space exploration.
sand, Sep 03 2007
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They do that now, to the degree they can on earth. For instance, the use the extreme northern climates and the deserts to kind of fake being on the surface of planets. The earth atmosphere and gravity being an undesired effect sometimes, I suppose.
They do it now physically which is a difficult and expensive process. I am suggesting that the parameters are used to create virtual planetary conditions so that participants with computers can construct virtual structures that will have to undergo virtual testing. That way anybody with a computer could participate.
Saw this earlier today. Thought you might find it interesting.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/146
This seems like an idea that could be adapted fairly easily from off-the-shelf video game software, in fact it could probably be packaged and sold as a video game like "Mass Effect."