Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

NASA Releases Classic Software To Public Domain

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the someone-quick-find-a-moon-lander dept.

xpccx writes in with a bit from NewsBytes, "NASA turned 43 this month and marked the occasion by releasing more than 200 of its scientific and engineering applications for public use. The modular Fortran programs can be modified, compiled and run on most Linux platforms." The software can be found at OpenChannelSoftware.com. At long last I am ready to prepare my own space mission. I wonder if a whiskey barrel is gonna be air tight after I launch it/me into space with a trebuchet. (It's this sort of unconventional thinking that should get me my job at NASA. Or at least get me put to sleep).

4 of 193 comments (clear)

  1. Let me get this straight.....you need to heal by FirstNoel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Um, this is how we deal with things...

    1. We Grieve...
    2. We look at what we can do to help
    3. We help
    4. We start to feel better
    5. We watch Cowboy BeBop and play video games..

    this sounds like normal life to me.

    I'm not giving up my life because someone dies...or millions die (ok maybe millions).

    People need these outlets, or else they will become bitter. I like Slashdot...it show the world is still alive and thriving. That's what we should focus on.

    Remember and honor the dead...but don't obsess. That helps no one.

    Sean D.

    --
    "Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
  2. Mirrors by Motheius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did anyone manage to get a mirror before this was /.

  3. Public Domain ?? by dpilot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What the heck is that?

    I thought the Senators for MPAA and RIAA outlawed that *years* ago.

    --
    The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
  4. Re:sp! by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so basically you're saying "Welcome young skywalker, I have been expecting you"

    --

    Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan