Name that telescope and win a prize

MSNBC ^ | Sept. 3, 2001 | Compiled by MSNBC

[anymouse]

I'll second that suggestion. Johanas Kepler is supposedly a distant ansestor of mine.

[anymouse]

I'll second that suggestion. Johanas Kepler is supposedly a distant ancestor of mine.

[gcruse]

When are they ever going to make spell checkers that work on names? :)

[gcruse]

How 'bout the Saganscope?

Or the Carlidoscope?  Heh.

[dead]

In the interest of smaller government, how about "Budweiser"?

[BikerNYC]

Or the Carlidoscope?

Teehee.

[saminfl]

The Sagan Scope

Better the Feynman scope than the Sagan scope.

[Moonman62]

There are so many who deserve to be honored. Has anything been named after Isaac Newton?

Yes, the European Space Agency named their x-ray telescope after Newton.

[dead]

Did anybody bother to name Katie Couric's colon scope?

[cracker]

Space Distance Facility - 1 (SDF-1) Sorry, but if we can dub the first shuttle "Enterprise"...

[Moonman62]

The article doesn't mention that SIRTF is the last of the four telescopes of the "Great Observatories" program. The other three were the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Telescope.

Of all the things NASA does these days, it's the space telescopes that are paying off in terms of increasing human knowledge. I just read yesterday that the Chandra mission is being extended from five years to ten years because of the great results in the first two years.

[Mr. Vega]

CETUS!

[hattend]

"The Batscope"

Make sure it's written big on the side so we will know it's name.

[cracker]

"The Batscope"

At launch, NASA can unveil a giant banner that reads "ZOOM!!!"

[Physicist]

Did anybody bother to name Katie Couric's colon scope?

The Clymer Climber.

[cracker]

Of all the things NASA does these days, it's the space telescopes that are paying off in terms of increasing human knowledge. I just read yesterday that the Chandra mission is being extended from five years to ten years because of the great results in the first two years.

I have mixed feelings about these budgetary games. NASA knows that the scopes are going to last for at least a decade, but they only plan a 3 year "mission" for a billion dollar scope to keep the budget down and win project approval from Congress. This is OK because it means that more scopes get funded. But the failure to build in the long-term funding means that expensive projects that are still producing good data (like a few of the recent planetary probes) get shut down to save a few million dollars. Dumb Dumb Dumb...

[Physicist]

In the interest of smaller government, how about "Budweiser"?

That would be counterproductive. They're raising the price of Budweiser.

[ThinkPlease]

Hey, dude, you missed an astronomer.

How about Hoyle? Though it does rhyme a bit too well with Hubble. I like the FIRST moniker someone came up with earlier, really...

[BikerNYC]

Better the Feynman scope than the Sagan scope.

Better an accelerator be named after Feynman.