The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 9 个月前Straight to the pointlemmy.worldimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1769arrow-down110
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minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up57·edit-29 个月前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
minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up29·9 个月前Don’t forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up18·9 个月前Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-29 个月前It’s the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you’re replying to left out “Aperture” by mistake.
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 个月前 Five Hundred Meter Spherical Telescope (FAST) Where does the ‘A’ come from? The phonetic “faiv”?
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 个月前Can’t beat rapid unscheduled disassembly. Aka, a thing exploded
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 个月前Spooky action at a distance is how Einstein called quantum entanglement. That is the official name.
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
Don’t forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.
Relevant xkcd
H+M = A?
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope to be technical.
It’s the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you’re replying to left out “Aperture” by mistake.
Where does the ‘A’ come from?
The phonetic “faiv”?
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Can’t beat rapid unscheduled disassembly. Aka, a thing exploded
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Spooky action at a distance is how Einstein called quantum entanglement. That is the official name.
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