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[โ€“] teft@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (11 children)

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).

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[โ€“] ulterno@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Five Hundred Meter Spherical Telescope (FAST)

Where does the 'A' come from?
The phonetic "faiv"?

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