Very Large Array to be renamed; suggestions wanted - Polidicks

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/f06j.jpg[/img] • The Very Large Array is to be renamed to celebrate the completion of a decade-long upgrade process. • Suggestions for the new name may be submitted at [url=http://www.nrao.edu/namethearray/]namethearray.org[/url] until 1 December, and the new name will be announced on 10 January. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15307169[/url] [quote=BBC News]One of the world's most famous radio telescope facilities needs a new name - and ideas are wanted. The Very Large Array (VLA) is a bank of radio telescopes in New Mexico, US, and has appeared in a number of films including Contact and Independence Day. The array has been undergoing a radical upgrade of its electronics since 2001. To celebrate the project's finish, the observatory that runs the array wants to rename it - and is asking the public to submit ideas. The contest, found at [url=http://www.nrao.edu/namethearray/]namethearray.org[/url], is open until 1 December and the winner will be announced at the American Astronomical Society conference in January. The VLA was constructed in the 1970s, and much of the electronics that collect and process the radio signals from its 27 gigantic antennas date from that era. The array has been used for more than three decades to tease out details of far-flung galaxies, supernovas and black holes - when not appearing in films. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather. The updated system should be 10 times more sensitive to the faint radio hum from the cosmos. The astronomy community has a long history of descriptive yet fairly unimaginative names - including the VLA itself, the [url=http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/vlt.html]Very Large Telescope[/url] in Chile, and the yet-to-be-built [url=http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/e-elt.html]European Extremely Large Telescope[/url] (the design for which was chosen over the alternative [url=http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/owl/]Overwhelmingly Large Telescope[/url]). Now, the NRAO wants to open up the choice to the public's creativity. "Though the giant dish antennas, the unique machines that move them across the desert, and the buildings on New Mexico's Plains of San Agustin may appear much the same, the VLA truly has become a new and different facility," said NRAO director Fred Lo. "We want a name that reflects this dramatically new status. The new name should clearly reflect the VLA's leading role in the future of astronomy, while honouring its multitude of past achievements." By way of warning, the Science and Environment desk's entry will be the "Unfeasibly Large Telescopes", so that one is taken.[/quote]

But I liked "Very Large Array." It has a certain charm to it.

$10 they will pick Spirit or Hope or some other bullshit

What about Scannerfield? After all, it is a field of massive scanners.

Suggested "Carl Sagan Array"

"Pretty Large Array I Guess"

"The Very Big Ear of Earth"

Can't touch my array ay aya ay.

Garry's Array

"I Can See Forever Array"

The gay array

"The Array Formerly Known As The Very Large Array"

Suggestions for the new name may be submitted at namethearray.org until 1 October, and the new name will be announced on 10 January. uh

Cool Array Bro :v:

[QUOTE=Pastor Eugene;32793578]Suggestions for the new name may be submitted at namethearray.org until 1 October, and the new name will be announced on 10 January. uh[/QUOTE] Sorry, fucking communist Obama ruined my shit

Suggested "The Ear"

Array up and choose a name.

Multi Purpose Non Lethal Science Ray.

[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;32793463]Suggested "Carl Sagan Array"[/QUOTE] I prefer simply "Sagan". Makes it sound kinda epic.

Call it Larry.

" The area of which a condensed amount of Radio observatories currently reside in"

Finding Nemo

How about "Listening for stuff along Ray Array"

The very best array ever.

Harry Potter and the Very Large Array

The Quite Huge Array

untitled potential doomsday device

Skynet

Very Big Array

Way Array Array from here I'll beee just kidding, I submitted "Carl Sagan Array" too