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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"

www.nasa.gov NASA Launches Beta Site; On-Demand Streaming, App Update Coming Soon - NASA

NASA is elevating its digital platforms for the benefit of all by revamping its flagship and science websites, adding its first on-demand streaming service, and upgrading the NASA app. With these changes, everyone will have access to a new world of content from the space agency.

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no cost
I think the head of a CEO somewhere just exploded.
- Space: The final free tier.
  
  It's 1:30AM and you have me cackling like a witch here.
  
  Absolutely despicable, +1 points to you.
- 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.

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".
- Feels very much like they're just following the trend of a bunch of streaming services that just add a + to the end. As long as it's good though I don't think it matters much
  
  I think Paramount ++good sounds promising
  
  Strikes me as tongue-in-cheek.
- The release date is November 8th.
- 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.

NASA+ will be available on most major platforms via the NASA App on iOS and Android mobile and tablet devices; streaming media players such as, Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV; and on the web across desktop and mobile devices.
What's the betting it won't be on LG's WebOS though? 😭
- My deepest sympathies to all 3 of you.
  
  Lol you joke but that includes every LG OLED tv sold to date
- Who will think of all the palm pre's out there
- Good news - the Apple TV app is free and runs on LG's WebOS
  
  Will that have the NASA app? I’m sorry if this is a stupid question.
- Don't say that... I'm planning on getting an LG
  
  Get a streaming stick. The hardware TV manufacturers use to run their OS is generally bottom of the barrel and is sluggish as hell.
  
  Their OLED panels are top notch, so don't sleep on it. Just get a separate streaming device as the experience on Roku, Android TV and Apple TV is just miles better.
  
  As others have said, don't buy TVs for their smart features. Just use a streaming stick. They are easier to replace as software changes, and there's practically no real benefit to ever putting a TV online in the first place.
  Also, LG panels are the best visual quality. You're doing good going the LG route. Just keep it offline.
  
  LG OLEDs are amazing, worth the price. Their OS is also very good compared to other TVs, I used it for years without an outside player. Now I have an Apple TV, which is better, but I still miss the LG’s magic controller.
  
  Bro just get an external player and don't worry about the garbage OS built into the screen.
- Oh, it's a total guarantee they won't, ugh.
- Can't you just play it from the web?
- I bit the bullet and got a Google tv with Chromecast because webos always gets left behind (and there was no homebrew YouTube alternative like smarttube on it)
  
  If you haven’t updated the TVs software you can probably root it (rootmy.tv). The Homebrew store has ad-free YouTube.

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.
  
  https://youtube.com/shorts/WwbqlHkQQsE?si=iLsOjGmXc3T8d_fj

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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?
- The “plus” means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.
  Notepad++ enters the chat
  
  It's actually Notepad+, plus it's free
- Looks like they refer to adding their Science wing into the streaming, too.
  In this crazy capitalist world peiple started forgetting that public services can be free, like, for real :D
  
  *Paid for with taxes, not free.
- 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
  
  sure. However "plus" means that something is additional to something else. And the question here is what is the basic product that makes this one be the additional
- 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!"
- What other "plus" apps have a non plus version though? Stone Disney+ it's just become "the thing" that streaming services go by now
  
  Disney had a several tv channels and an app that was free for subscribers when they launched Disney+ but I don't know if they still have the old app.
- Mauve for this you'll need to have an account? This would already help nasa market products towards you and this is a good value they can get without you paying anything.
  
  Mauve you're right, mauve you're not, mauve I'll see for myself.

Nice

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.

Gotta love some american propaganda.
- Space is space, it’s on your keyboard
  
  It's also between his ears.
- Did you confuse NSA (American gestapo) with NASA (a bunch of nerds that really like space and use American funds to indulge that passion)?
  
  I'd totally pay for NSA+ to live-stream American phone calls and Internet traffic.
  
  No. Can u remind me again why nasa was invented? Was it something to do with a propaganda war with the USSR and a space race perhaps?
- Sure, but this one allows some scientific progress rather than civilians massacres.
  
  Dont know brought up civilian massacres bu i love nasa
- Are you not familiar with NASA TV? It’s pretty interesting at times with science updates on their exploration programs like the Mars rovers and JWST. They also broadcast EVA’s and have interviews with people working in Mission Control and elsewhere. I like it a lot.
  
  I am familliar i love it damn cool shit and impressive engineering. Its important that while enjoying it that u dont forget its a tool to promote american propoganda and scientific exeptionalism

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