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“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
by dathos 3y ago
“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
- mecsred 3y agoThe checklist is accurate: https://xkcd.com/1294/ https://xkcd.com/1294/
- throwaway7868 3y agoIs the "final telescope" massive enough to be its own black hole?
- hinkley 3y agoThe OWL was cancelled? Can we propose the Obnoxiously Large Telescope to replace it?
- etra0 3y agoNow they're building the ELT –– Extremely Large Telescope. They're great with names haha.
- cyberax 3y agoDon't forget OWL: Overwhelmingly Large Telescope ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope ).
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoOr, "Once Was Larger" "The ESO specialists expect resolutions from OWL that are up to 40 times higher than those of the Hubble Space Telescope. If the 100-meter mirror cannot be financed, a 60-meter variant is being planned. The name OWL would remain the same. Because then the project is jokingly called »Once was larger«." https://www.itespresso.de/2006/04/17/groesstes-observatorium-der-welt-pcpro/ https://www.itespresso.de/2006/04/17/groesstes-observatorium... --> Google Translate
- moffkalast 3y agoStill waiting for the Stupendously Gigantic Telescope.
- FredPret 3y agoThey should build one ten times the size of the next largest one, and call it the Quite Sizeable Telescope
- ProAm 3y agoThere is the "Very Large Array" too! the VLA. I love these naming standards. Way better than any startup or open source project name
- willis936 3y agoPotentially inspired by Very Large Scale Integration.
- ck2 3y agoGo read about the solar gravitational lens telescope proposal by physicist Slava Turyshev It is the most mind blowing thing that could actually be built someday by humans imho, well if we decide to stop blowing all our budget on killing other people https://google.com/search?q=solar+gravitational+lens https://google.com/search?q=solar+gravitational+lens It would be able to image exoplanets, 10 square kilometers for objects 100 light-years away.
- floxy 3y ago>solar gravitational lens telescope Here is a great video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFqDKRAROI ...and a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421 https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421
- nonameiguess 3y agoAstronomers are great at this. Three postulated categories of dark matter include: * WIMPs: weakly interacting massive particles * MACHOs: massive compact halo objects * RAMBOs: robust associations of massive baryonic objects There's also the HERO (hyper extremely red object), which isn't quite dark, but close.
- imchillyb 3y agoAstronomers and Astrophysicists are great at naming things. The rest of the scientific community...notsomuch. > https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uNnq2GrC01o https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uNnq2GrC01o