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My favorite one of those is "Hanny's Voorwerp," discovered by a Dutch woman named Hanny, and "voorwerp" just means "object." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hann

My favorite one of those is "Hanny's Voorwerp," discovered by a Dutch woman named Hanny, and "voorwerp" just means "object." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny%27s_Voorwerp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanny%27s_Voorwerp

Cthulhu_ 5y ago
or the Bloop [0], a mysterious underwater sound that I guess sounded like bloop. Similar: The Ping [1], The Hum [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_and_Hecla_Strait#%22The_Ping%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_and_Hecla_Strait#%22The_P... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
beaconstudios 5y ago
Continuing the thread, my favourites are the sequence of telescopes named "very large telescope", "extremely large telescope" and "overwhelmingly large telescope"! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...
- captn3m0 5y ago
  Some other cool uses of adjectives: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Magellanic_Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Magellanic_Cloud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Void - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Void - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Nothing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole
- andrewflnr 5y ago
  And of course, the obligatory xkcd (it's not just 927 again!): https://xkcd.com/1294/ https://xkcd.com/1294/
  - golem14 5y ago
    It's missing "Ludicrously Large Telescope" and "Plaid Telescope".

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

or the Bloop [0], a mysterious underwater sound that I guess sounded like bloop. Similar: The Ping [1], The Hum [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_and_Hecla_Strait#%22The_Ping%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_and_Hecla_Strait#%22The_P... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

beaconstudios 5y ago

Continuing the thread, my favourites are the sequence of telescopes named "very large telescope", "extremely large telescope" and "overwhelmingly large telescope"! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...

captn3m0 5y ago
Some other cool uses of adjectives: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Magellanic_Cloud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Magellanic_Cloud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Magellanic_Cloud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Void - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Void - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Nothing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole
andrewflnr 5y ago
And of course, the obligatory xkcd (it's not just 927 again!): https://xkcd.com/1294/ https://xkcd.com/1294/
- golem14 5y ago
  It's missing "Ludicrously Large Telescope" and "Plaid Telescope".