[Scan-DC] Slightly OT: Suggest a new name for the Very Large Array radio telescope

[Doug Kitchener]

The Argus Array!

sent to a buddy of mine and posted on facebook.

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> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:34:05 -0500
> From: aclegg at nsf.gov
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Slightly OT: Suggest a new name for the Very Large Array radio telescope
>
> This is slightly off-topic, but the National Radio Astronomy
> Observatory, a facility of my agency (the National Science Foundation),
> is looking for a new name for the Very Large Array radio telescope near
> Socorro, New Mexico. The VLA was made famous by Jodie Foster in Contact,
> and you may not realize it, but you probably see pictures of it almost
> every day in advertisements (it has become an icon for high tech and
> communications).
>
> The deadline for submitting a suggestion for a new name is this
> Thursday, and the announcement of the new name will take place on
> January 10. If your suggestion is picked, you get absolutely nothing
> (this is the government, after all).
>
> Here is the URL for the entry form:
>
> http://www.nrao.edu/namethearray/
>
> Please feel free to forward to fellow radio nerds and space geeks.
>
> Regards,
> Andy