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Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by rbanffy on Thursday October 14, 2021 @06:48PM (#28871237)
After the VLT comes the ELT. I wonder what superlatives will need to be used for other future telescopes.
Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by watersb on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:39PM (#28871759)
The OWT was proposed, but not funded. Yet.

"Overwhelmingly Large Telescope": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...

The GBT monster, the king of the telescopes at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia -- I always think of it as the "Great Big Telescope": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope

A radio telescopes, sure, like the Very Large Array... but the next such instrument up is simply the "Square Kilometer Array", reflecting (!) the total area of all if the array elements.

(I lobbied for naming it the SRSLY, but these international consortiums can be a tough audience to calibrate; they were sick of me by the end of the conference.)

Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by dylan604 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:55PM (#28872484)
SRSLY isn't as far of an outlier as any of the other names. What was your name spelled out meant to be?

We need Douglas Adams to name a few of these.

Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by watersb on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:27AM (#28874295)
It was awful: "Space-Radio Synthesis [with a] Large 'Y'" or some such.

And then, the SKA was split in two: half in Australia, and half in South Africa.

So it didn't hold up at all, but at the time, it was fun.

Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by rbanffy on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:14AM (#28878605)
I could name a few:

BBT - big beautiful telescope

SHT - seriously humongous telescope

WTF - wide-aperture telescope fleet

Re:First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Li... by soylentcola on Friday October 15, 2021 @11:07AM (#28878505)
BFT 9000?