I love it when very complex multinational scientific projects get named stuff like Very Large Telescope
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in reply to @fwankie's post:
My favourite one of these names is the currently held up by bullshit Thirty Meter Telescope which, you guessed it, will have a primary mirror with a diameter of thirty meters
Telescopes in particular do this a lot. I think research astronomers have all agreed that this is funny.
in reply to @jaidamack's post:
I do love how back in the 70s a large telescope that had six primary mirrors was constructed and named the "Multiple Mirror Telescope," or MMT. Later, in the late 90s, they replaced the six mirrors with one big one. Now still called the MMT, it's no longer an acronym, the name simply means, uh, that they couldn't think of a new name...