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

[Andrew Clegg]

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From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:31 PM
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Slightly OT: Suggest a new name for the Very Large 
Array radio telescope

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>> From: b_thom at juno.com
>> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:52:23 +0000
>> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Slightly OT: Suggest a new name for the Very Large 
>> Array radio telescope
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>> Since it appears in the advertising for many of those gadgets so beloved 
>> by all the hipsters, my suggestion is to call the thing the Hip Hip 
>> Array.
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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
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>> 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).
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