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• TitanLakes commented on Video: Avatar, Augmented Reality, and NASA
  I don't have a problem with NASA going to the mass media, and in fact, I would encourage it. Right now that seems to be the best way to reach people. I'm not saying NASA should just go out and blanket the media with triviality, though. I would like to think that there are people out there who could handle outreach intelligently. Lamenting the state of our culture doesn't really accomplish anything constructive. NASA, as a government agency, is supposed to work for the taxpaying public. If the people at NASA want the public to understand and support what they're...

• Bob Mahoney commented on Video: Avatar, Augmented Reality, and NASA
  TitanLakes: I couldn't agree more, especially your specific point about doing so intelligently, as I outlined in my TSR essay back in 2007: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/802/1 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/807/1 My issue lies with the lamentable reality that many of us who would try to foster a broader interest in spaceflight seem to feel it necessary to employ instantaneous-fix gimmicks (triviality as you dub it) to reach the public instead of engaging them at a slightly higher level with sound, compelling storytelling. I feel that thusly the "arms race" of public engagement is trending downward toward a state of instant-gratification idiocracy instead of upward toward...