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

[Doug Kitchener]

Even more off-topic; thinking about this reminded me, there is actually a company called BigAss Fans... I kid you not (was it Steve Allen who used to say that?)... we have one of them in the atrium of our new Science Center at Montgomery College in Rockville.

Pretty neat stuff, actually...

http://www.bigassfans.com/


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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
>
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