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Neil deGrasse Tyson Presents 'Space Odyssey', will feature Linux support

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The respected scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson is working on a computer game called 'Space Odyssey' [Official Site]. It will be an online game and feature Linux support. It sounds like it will support offline play too.

It's a game about creating your own galaxies and civilizations, which sounds like it could be fun.

On the official website it officially lists Linux as a supported platform, so that's pretty damn exciting for us.

About the game (Official)
Meet at the Mission Control Spaceport and set off on missions by piloting your spacecraft through your friends galaxies, colonizing and growing your own galaxy, all with some guidance from Neil, your trusted Space Adviser.

Grow galaxies, develop planets, colonize worlds, nurture species, harvest, mine, explore and discover unique life-forms, and civilizations. You're part of a community that'll shape the future of this gaming Universe.

It's in early-development and there's not much else to go on. Just the fact that they are stating Linux already is good news. I will be looking forward to hearing more about it and seeing some actual gameplay.

Thanks for the info Miguel. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Hamish Oct 10, 2016
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: HamishNo offence intended to Mr. Tyson, but it would probably be more accurate to describe him as being a popular scientist instead, given his prominence as a science communicator over his more academic work.
That is true, but I'd argue that popular science is just as important as hard (unpopular? :)) science. Shared science is the best science.

It was not meant as a value judgment, but the reason you know him is because he is on television, rather than for his actual studies and the work he has done as an astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Contrast him to someone like Richard Dawkins, who admittedly is also under the media spotlight, but is known for his significant contributions to evolutionary biology, especially with memetics.

In Tyson's case, the only one to really reach the public eye is his advocacy for the reclassification of Pluto.
tuubi Oct 10, 2016
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Quoting: Hamish
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: HamishNo offence intended to Mr. Tyson, but it would probably be more accurate to describe him as being a popular scientist instead, given his prominence as a science communicator over his more academic work.
That is true, but I'd argue that popular science is just as important as hard (unpopular? :)) science. Shared science is the best science.

It was not meant as a value judgment, but the reason you know him is because he is on television, rather than for his actual studies and the work he has done as an astrophysicist and cosmologist.
I believe you didn't mean to diss him. I'm just a bit tired of the old "Those who can't, teach" idiocy when applied to people in science. No I'm not a scientist nor a teacher, just don't like the G.B. Shaw quote. Many of the most well known scientific geniuses (genii?) have spent much of their lives teaching, or communicating their thoughts.

Sorry for the tangent.
Trump Oct 10, 2016
Colombo Oct 10, 2016
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: lucifertdarkW
Quoting: GuestExplain to us all why you think he is a fraud and liar. A "fraud" means deception. A "liar" also means deception. What exactly has he lied about?
Well Man Made Climate Change is a huge Fraud & a Lie & he's all in on it.

The Climate Change nonsense is based entirely on a computer model that has been wrong for the last 20 years & has been proven to be wrong & yet frauds like Tyson still parrot it out as being the truth.

If you're talking about some much older models decades ago, sure, some of those models ended up being wrong because they were using currently outdated information because they were older models. For example, some models thought it was going to be a bit better, but the building of several more coal power plants altered that prediction.

The overall science though is correct. There is a radical spike in temperature off of the normal slow curve and it is clearly caused by human activity. There are a lot of very striking obvious effects seen all over the world already. To listen to fossil fuel propaganda instead and ignore science and the need for renewable energy demonstrates the failure and negative effects of unrestrained capitalism and its stranglehold over mass media as well as the deep corruption it has caused in various governments, especially America's.

I dont 't want to support tinfoil hat here, but on one thing, he is right . T here is a lot of lying here. Just look at the latest poke from. Randall: http://xkcd.com/1732/d

this was widely shared by almost everyone on the internet. However, if you look at it closely, it puts together day today measurement of temperature in modern times and smoothed estimates from past. Any conclusion about global warming from this is completely made up and in any other topic, this would be instantly dissed as psedudoscience. Not in global warming.

However, many people believe that this graph is correct.
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