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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).

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  1. F.U. Sunken Kursk! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I 0wn j00 4zz Sunken Kursk! No hattrick 4 u 2day!..

  2. sp! by Dolly_Llama · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I poop on your face!

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

    1. Re:sp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      tune in next week when little johnny learns where the post anonymously box is and DOESN'T make a fool of himself.

    2. Re:sp! by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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

  3. Re:Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Absolutely right. I've spent the weeks since the attacks huddled in a corner crying. It's made the world a better place.

  4. Yet another terrorist attack! by TheLoneCabbage · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FORTRAN, Anthrax... which is worse?

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  5. Well, I'm so fsckin sorry! And also... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... you left something else open. Be more carefull what you leave opened next time..

  6. 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.

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

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

  8. In the meantime... by WildBeast · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    apparently, Slashdot is going to have larger ads for non-subscribers. That means we'll have to pay to get rid of those ads. What's funny is that they never said anything about it. This is the same site that tells us "Information wants to be free"

    1. Re:In the meantime... by apathy21 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Taco had a huge post that this was going to happen.

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

    What the heck is that?

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

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    The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
  10. Humor by Pyrosz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A little laugh and it even has to do with space! ;)

    The 10 most common statements made by Klingon programmers:

    10: "Specifications are for the week and timid!"

    09: "Indention?! I will show you how to indent wen I indent your skull!"

    08: "What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not 'release' software. We uncage our software, letting it leave a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."

    07: "Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters'. They have 'arguments'... and they ALWAYS WIN THEM!"

    06: "Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak."

    05: "I have challenged the entire quality assurance team to a Bat-Leth contest."

    04: "A TRUE Klingon programmer does not comment his code!"

    03: "By filing this PTR you have challenged the honor of my family. Prepare to die!"

    02: "You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!"

    01: "Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!"

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    An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; a pessimist fears this is true.
  11. what why'd i just hear about this now? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you mean we can 1969 a thought about a time of 1963 or else?

    oh boy, i know some b00tleggers that never get their product to market at times.

    I can almost taste the high seas again, hmm things get interesting on a friday again.

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