Web News: US Military Building Earth Simulator

scapegoat · 23-February-04, 09:56 AM

Read carfully. Sounds to me like the Army is building a Massive Multiplayer Online game, or just a beefed up version of the Sims!

The detailed simulation will be drawn from a real-world terrain database and will be drawn to the same scale as the original.

Mr Gehorsam said the world being created will not be a game but instead will be a "massively multi-user persistent environment" that will model real world physics as closely as possible.

A sample of life in There's game world
The emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware

More Here

j-dogg · 23-February-04, 10:36 AM

I bet this simulator has a mean videocard

23-February-04, 09:56 AM		#1 (permalink)
scapegoat Apex Tech God	Web News: US Military Building Earth Simulator Read carfully. Sounds to me like the Army is building a Massive Multiplayer Online game, or just a beefed up version of the Sims! The detailed simulation will be drawn from a real-world terrain database and will be drawn to the same scale as the original. Mr Gehorsam said the world being created will not be a game but instead will be a "massively multi-user persistent environment" that will model real world physics as closely as possible. A sample of life in There's game world The emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware More Here

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23-February-04, 10:36 AM		#2 (permalink)
j-dogg Mystical Schwinn Guru	I bet this simulator has a mean videocard