Kit BashirNow that astronomy departments have used up “very large telescope” and “extremely large telescope”, successors will have to built in Australia. “Crikey look at the size of that fucker telescope” comes online in 2032.
Deborah Pickett@Unixbigot We already sorted this with the Nando's Chips Rule. After Small, and Large, comes Seriously Large.
Jima 
@jima @Unixbigot @voltagex We must wait until Nando’s is able to research new chip science. I am happy to fund this work for the good of humanity.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@Unixbigot I've been predicting the "FHT" for some time now. You're right though - the Aussies could name them better :)
neoluddite@Unixbigot wasn't there a plan for an OWL telescope? (OverWhelmingly Large)
I love this, so I@neoluddite @Unixbigot I thought that one actually got built
@jpm @neoluddite TIL no, the 39m ELT is Plan B after the 100m OWL was declared Too Likely To Elicit Ablist Scatology
BeeCycling has moved@Unixbigot We could build a Bloody Massive Telescope in the UK.
emmatonkin@Unixbigot
Lots of options still to go - like, say, naming the next generation according to the chonker spectrum.
Lots of options still to go - like, say, naming the next generation according to the chonker spectrum.
screw_dog@emmatonkin @Unixbigot Oh Lawd He a Telescope
2¢"That's not a telescope. *That's* a telescope."
Professor_StevensWe have a winner.
_I suggest:
Crikey
Look
It's
The
Oversized
Really
Incredible
Science
telescope.
For no particular initals/acronym/name shortening reason 🤔
@arose62 unfortunately the Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society got there first. :/
But, if the telescope got the name, it would guarantee that all the space radar and tracking stations would be operational 100% of the time!
Because which bureau chief would want to face the media and say:
"We can't find the …"
Jay@Unixbigot “Astronomically large” is -right there-.
@WhiteCatTamer it took a genius to see it!
The VHM-BB Telescope ( for "vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big").
Alex 🔧🔮🌎🪿
@Unixbigot
Enormous Telescope is still up for grabs.
Then they can make the CS folks happy with:
Ludicrously Enormous Telescope
Super Enormous Telescope
Gigantic Enormous Telescope
@Unixbigot
The public API for the Enormous Telescope would have to be the Seeing (with the) Enormous Telescope Interface.
The public API for the Enormous Telescope would have to be the Seeing (with the) Enormous Telescope Interface.
WikiParty@Unixbigot Well, along with #SouthAfrica, Australia is part of the Square Kilometre telescope, so there you are! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
Richard HendricksPHAse Testing Technology Evolutionary Synchronized Telescope: PHATTEST
Superior IR Multiple Interferometric eXtreme Aperture Lens Of Telescopes: SIR MIXALOT
🤔 😄 🔭
Rahul Somasunderam@Unixbigot we could get sir mix-a-lot to build us the “of my God Becky, look at her telescope”
enoch_exe_inc
Tim EveleighIs 'massive' bigger or smaller than 'extremely large'?
Moritz Negwer
Stargeezer Smith@[email protected]
I thought there was talk of an OMG telescope.
I thought there was talk of an OMG telescope.
gunstick@Unixbigot and the acronym is nice:
C l a t s o t f t
C l a t s o t f t
Lisa@Unixbigot also that's not a telascope this is a telascope :P
Willow@Unixbigot
And then in Somerset: "the gurt huge telescope"
And then in Somerset: "the gurt huge telescope"