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>There were a few caveats though. The applicant had to be a US citizen at least 18 years of age, and the code to optimize had to be in Fortran. Why would you n
by ancarda 8y ago
>There were a few caveats though. The applicant had to be a US citizen at least 18 years of age, and the code to optimize had to be in Fortran.
Why would you need to be a US citizen to partake in NASA's competition?
- TomMarius 8y agoBecause nationalism (offerring opportunities to aliens is bad!)
- sverige 8y agoI think it has more to do with national security; i.e., not sharing our tech with other nation states that might use it against us. That used to be more of a thing a generation ago. For example, it used to be a crime to export certain computer technology to communist China. Now lot of our stuff is built there.
- TomMarius 8y agoThat itself is a result of nationalism, even explicitly.
- sverige 8y agoBut not for the reason you stated.
- TomMarius 8y agoThe reason is nationalism, what I wrote in the parentheses was meant as a tongue in cheek paraphrasing of some isolation supporter, I thought it was obvious because I would never call a person "alien" (as in intruder) seriously. The reason here is "nationalism" because that includes the whole history (which is in turn the reason for it). Sorry for the confusion.
- tk75x 8y agoBecause of the possibility of a foreigner accessing sensitive information pertaining to the US space program.
- scentoni 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_exclusion_policy_of_NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_exclusion_policy_of_NA...
- izacus 8y agoBecause you're working on the same kind of tech that powers nuclear ICBM and other missiles.