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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Ornithologists should hang out with astronomers. They do the same naming scheme with telescopes. They've named some classics like the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).

Edit: a word

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you're replying to left out "Aperture" by mistake.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Five Hundred Meter Spherical Telescope (FAST)

Where does the 'A' come from?
The phonetic "faiv"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Can't beat rapid unscheduled disassembly. Aka, a thing exploded

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not to mention "The Big Bang", and " Spooky Action At a Distance"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Spooky action at a distance is how Einstein called quantum entanglement. That is the official name.