NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series"
NASA Launches Beta Site; On-Demand Streaming, App Update Coming Soon - NASA
With this being a free service, I feel like calling it NASA+ is a bit misleading. To me, I feel like the "+" indicates a paid, premium service. If it wasn't for the title of this post that clarifies that it's free, I probably wouldn't have even considered installing the app based on the name, alone.
Either way, this is great news! I'm probably gonna check this out once it's available. I wish they'd have a release date, though. The official page just says "Coming soon".
It may mean, NASA content plus other content they feel is appropriate to the service.
I don't usually think "paid service" when I see the plus symbol added to something.
Ever since Canada created the elegantly named "Canadarm", NASA and Canada have been besties.
To say nothing of possibly the greatest Astronaut to fly to the Space Station: Chris Hadfield
flying toasters screensaver for life!
THE DAY I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR
The US federal science agencies are generally pretty happy with sharing things. If it's free to the US public, it's free to the world and I love that. Best possible use of my tax dollars.
(We also share weather and hurricane data with the Caribbean countries, for example. None of them could individually afford what the US is doing, so I'm happy we share.)
I'm still using a particularly excellently implemented Matrix screensaver from XP, hehe.
And what's that (less authentic looking but still great) one for Linux terminals? cmatrix I think?
Yeah it's cmatrix. You can get it pretty legit if you tweak the settings enough.
I remember that XP screensaver like it was yesterday though.
I posted on Lemmy about needing recommendations for movies to watch on shrooms....and then minutes later stumble across this article.
Talk about perfect timing, lol.
This is really starting to feel like a perfect replacement for that...other website.
Monty python and the holy grail and/or life of brian.
So long as Holy Grail is first
I have a huge list of trippy & visual movies, tons of variety if you're interested in picking through it for ideas: https://letterboxd.com/bee_tea/list/background-movies-for-house-parties
heavy on the sexual stuff (for house parties) but awesome list, you picked off 99% of what I'd probably go for but would add 2001, The Shining, liquid television, paprika and tron heh.
thanks for sharing inspiration!
You are actually the master of finding lists for any given scenario. I thought it was just for playlists, now I'm almost scared to know the true extent of your power 😅
MST3K is my goto 🍄
The new show "Scavengers Reign" reminds me of tripping a bit and is actually very good.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
I'm a big cyberpunk fan so I enjoy Robocop and Akira. Disney animation is also good like Encanto in 4k on an OLED TV will give you a religious experience as you're peaking.
We know it's ad-free and zero cost, but will it be DRM-free as well?
I'm not sure if US government IP is legally allowed to be DRM'd.
Not only is it not allowed to be DRM'd, "US government IP" is itself an oxymoron: stuff published by the government is Public Domain, so it doesn't even count as "intellectual property [sic]" to begin with.
Yeah, it’s paid for by taxpayers, so it’s all fair use.
Most NASA stuff is published under non affiliation free use license - you can do what ever you like with it.
you can do what ever you like with it.
RIP to the videos on Uranus.
I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the content is already freely downloadable from somewhere...
A budget that goes into space exploration, development of groundbreaking science that has its use both in space and on Earth, popularization of science among masses, democratizing access to cutting-edge knowledge, making it free for everyone, including kids and the poor, to access at any time? Yes, please.
Oh fuck off.
cheap for what you get
...or about 3% of the military budget. Quite a bargain.
Maybe you's could do a similar thing for healthcare and get healthcare for free, like this new nasa+ thing. Wouldn't that be wild
The funny thing with tax is you don't get choose how it's spent. Tax money is public money that ought to be spent in the public interest, and NASA is a perfectly good example of this. Other good examples are infrastructure, parks, public healthcare and free education. Bad examples of tax expenditure are the ridiculous military complex, massive corporate subsidies and contractors doing poor work that the government should be directly controlling.
If it's called NASA Plus, how is it free? The "plus" means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.
Don't get me wrong this is absolutely fantastic I adore NASA and space, but they're just be some hidden cost? Otherwise it wouldn't be a streaming service called NASA Plus, right?
I don't think everyone sat down and agreed to that being what plus means. It's like labeling food as organic, it means nothing. It's just a name. Odd thing to obsess over, you'll get nowhere trying to understand marketing people, just let it go.
What they are adding is a more condensed experience accessing NASA content and making it easier for casual viewers to access. The more people paying attention to science the better. I think this is a fantastic move from NASA
Why do you think the organic label for food means nothing?
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means
plus just means more I think, they're adding to their service so it's "plus"
just because that's usually a hook to get you to pay more doesn't mean that's now the definition of the word
They're selling our usage data to aliens to pay for server costs
What do you expect? "We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here!"
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Sam has just kicked out of the airlock apartment by his wife Karen. Would his other woman save him from radiation and lack of oxygen? Tune in to this episode of Desperate Spacewives
Nice
I think the head of a CEO somewhere just exploded.
and every conservative congresscritter, for some reason. 'couldn't this be done in the private sector'
CEOs are usually not relying as much on taxes. That's why it's free, this is a way to justify tax usage by developing public outreach.
Walmart CEO definitely relies on taxes, food stamps, WIC, and other programs. ISP CEOs took tax money for Internet upgrades and did nothing. Multiple bailouts for business that they squandered on stock buyback.
Walmart CEO definitely relies on taxes, food stamps, WIC, and other programs. ISP CEOs took tax money for Internet upgrades and did nothing. Multiple bailouts for business that they squandered on stock buyback.