I find it very depressing that the US space program now has come down to have to produce ads like this...
Angry Birds in space
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#12Why is this on Hacker News? Isn't this spam?
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#13Angry Birds Space looks like a total rip off of this neat flash game where you put a golf ball through a ring located on a distant planet while taking into account the mass of the bodies in space.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/FunkyPear/gravitee?acomplete...
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#14Have you noticed that scientific organisations participating in the ISS project are promoting a game in which sounds in audible in vacuum ? Apparently the heritage of Star Wars et al. is still preventing the industry from marketing space-based games not making physicists laugh. Surely, it won't change soon.
I hope this is a joke. A silent space game would not be fun.
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#15Do US taxpayers get a free copy of the game?
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#16Why is this on Hacker News? Isn't this spam?
In that case, isn't almost everything?
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#17Something about this doesn't sit right with me. I feel like the kind of people I would ordinarily consider role models are selling out to a video game.
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#18Angry Birds Space looks like a total rip off of this neat flash game where you put a golf ball through a ring located on a distant planet while taking into account the mass of the bodies in space. http://www.kongregate.com/games/FunkyPear/gravitee?acomplete...
Angry Birds itself was a rip-off of Crush The Castle. Just having the game design doesn't sell; you have to find the right dressing.
If I was the Crush The Castle guys, I'd be crying into my corn flakes every morning.
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#19Have you noticed that scientific organisations participating in the ISS project are promoting a game in which sounds in audible in vacuum ? Apparently the heritage of Star Wars et al. is still preventing the industry from marketing space-based games not making physicists laugh. Surely, it won't change soon.
I think that we can bow to the needs of dramatic effect. Even in "in space, nobody can hear you scream" Alien they had space ship sounds.
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#20Man, NASA is so desperate for money. Good to see the private sector paying the public for once.