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Only had a couple minutes to try this but I'm already confused by a couple things.

- "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE" I guess this is a joke but I don't really get it, just seems like a weird thing to have there.

- In the first popup, the "audio transmission" is significantly different than the printed text.

- "The Earth is a sphere." - this is not true, I think it should be classified as a hypothesis

- "The universe is expanding." Isn't this a theory? I don't think it can be called "a basic statement", it is a well-tested theory based on a lot of observational evidence.

- "Humans and gorillas evolved from a common ancestor species." This is obviously a theory, it's like THE theory when you need an example of what a theory is. You cannot establish this by experiment or observation.

- "Light is an electromagnetic phenomenon described by Maxwell's Laws" Why is this classified as a theory?

etc.

The categorization of this first lesson seems very arbitrary, and often contradictory with the "knowledge database" on the left.

Edit: Did you AI-generate these questions and then not proofread them?

>Math

But the first exercise is about judging statements based on nebulous definitions, definitely unrelated to mathematics?

Introducing Space Math Academy!

Reimagined NASA’s Space Math curriculum (https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/) as an immersive game, instead of static PDFs. Students solve the same problems real scientists face daily -- calculating orbits and trajectories, dealing with space weather, etc. -- in an interactive way that goes beyond worksheets (or just sending PDFs to an LLM).

https://space-math.academy https://www.github.com/dynamicwebpaige/space-math

Powered by Gemini for storytelling and text-to-speech (TTS). Links to the GitHub repo and live link that you can play above, thanks to Google Cloud Run. Please file feature requests, if there's enough interest will add more missions and a leaderboard.

Seems fun but unusable on mobile. Windows are not responsive enough. General design seems fun though

"If I jump out a window I will die"

Is not a fact: I have never died jumping out of a window, thus it is a hypothesis (because it is testable, though that raise epistemological problems in of itself)

I'm so confused by the first task...

specifically I got hit with "chimpanzees and humans have common ancestor" (or something like that)

definition for a "fact" (supposed correct answer) given on the page ("A basic statement established by experiment or observation. True under specific conditions.") seems to me akin to "direct result of some experiment"

meanwhile, determining common ancestry - in my mind - took a lot of work, comparing anatomy, digging out bones and stuff... all the correlation, all the composition

surely it's more of a theory that's supported by many facts?

Seems very well put together, but I guess idk what a fact vs law is

How does it save the progress?

Oooh, I hate this.

"The Earth is a sphere" -> nope

"Water freezes at 32F" -> depends

"Apes and Humans share a common ancestor" -> not a fact, although an extremely likely theory. The site's definition about fact mentions observability. I'd accept "Ape and Humans share 99.x% of DNA, indicating common ancestry" as a fact

Well people, knowledge become belief. - Position of Moon creating tides, which affect some places very strong, because line of shore constantly moving more then by cup meters, so some operations need to be planned according to tides, this is not belief, this is fact. Position of Sun amplifies tides for up to 50%. BTW, people knowing Astronomy, easy conclude, most extreme Sun tides amplification happen with Sun Eclipse.

I also seen few other wrong classifications.

Sorry, good idea, but such mistakes made it unplayable.