• teft
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    18 hours ago

    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

    • @[email protected]
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      2317 hours ago

      Don’t forget the Very Large Telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, and the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope.

      • TheTechnician27
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        18 hours ago

        It’s the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you’re replying to left out “Aperture” by mistake.

    • @[email protected]
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      617 hours ago

      Five Hundred Meter Spherical Telescope (FAST)

      Where does the ‘A’ come from?
      The phonetic “faiv”?

      • Blue Lou
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        117 hours ago

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