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Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Rum » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:10 am

The VLA (Very Large Array) wants a new name! You can submit your ideas and you never know - you might win!

My idea is 'Big Fuckoff Telescope'..

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http://www.nrao.edu/namethearray/
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:15 am

Big Dick. :smoke:
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:58 am

Big Boggles.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:59 am

Or perhaps just 'The Boggler.'
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by PsychoSerenity » Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:20 am

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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Exi5tentialist » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:04 am

The PRPS

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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Tero » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:05 am

A bunch of discs? It has no penis type of appearance. Intruder?
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Faithfree » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:39 am

I'd suggest the "Triple Jesus Shit Big Array" but the acronym would by nonsensical, like the current one.
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:41 am

Tero wrote:A bunch of discs? It has no penis type of appearance. Intruder?
Politicans seldom notice details. If they want extra funding call the telescope Big Dick..... :smoke:
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:48 am

The "Yes, yes, yes, I'm listening, dear, now what did you say?" Array?
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by mistermack » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:32 pm

The " HIP HIP " array.
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:35 pm

mistermack wrote:The " 'IP 'IP "

'array.
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Mallardz » Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:00 pm

The Very Large Array Mk II
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Exi5tentialist » Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:00 pm

While we're at it, does anyone else think the way John Hurt showed Jodie Foster the way to piece together the alien code was a bit lame? They'd had armies of mathematicians working on it for weeks, and none of them had thought to just connect the pages at the top and the sides to establish overall coherence. And John Hurt had to make a phone call from space to impart this inane revelation. Lame.
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Re: Want to name a giant telescope?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:03 pm

Exi5tentialist wrote:While we're at it, does anyone else think the way John Hurt showed Jodie Foster the way to piece together the alien code was a bit lame? They'd had armies of mathematicians working on it for weeks, and none of them had thought to just connect the pages at the top and the sides to establish overall coherence. And John Hurt had to make a phone call from space to impart this inane revelation. Lame.
It wasn't just "top to bottom", each "page" was a 3D construct. (Something I didn't get clearly from the book first I read it.)
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