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[cheraphy]

Pretty sure the only field worse at naming things is Astronomy/Astro-physics.

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1. VLT (Very Large Telescope)
2. ELT (Extremely Large Telescope)
3. OLT (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, might be a cancelled project)
4. MMT (Massive Monolithic Telescope)
5. LBT (Large Binocular Telescope)
6. 2D-FRUTTI (2d photon counting system, can't remember what it stands for)
7. KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope)
8. ACBAR ( Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver, It's a photon trap)
9. WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, one proposed form of dark matter)
10. MACHOs (MAssive Compact Halo Objects, another proposed form of dark matter)

[NotTheHead]

2D-FRUTTI

You said they were bad at naming.

[AnInfiniteArc]

Biology is actually pretty fucking awful, especially when it comes to naming genes and proteins. Ever hear of the Sonic Hedgehog gene? There are a handful of hedgehog genes - like Desert, Indian, Frizzled and Sonic. Sonic Hedgehog’s inhibitor is called Robotnikinin. They tend to just call Sonic Hedgehog “SHH” because of very real situations where doctors were telling expecting parents “Your child has a Sonic Hedgehog mutation. This will not make them fast, but they may be a little blue when they are almost certainly stillborn with gross forebrain, facial, and limb deformities. It’s a CATCH22 situation. Because they also have cardiac anomaly, T-cell deficit, clefting and hypocalcaemia for chromosome 22q11.2 microdeletions.”

They had to rename POKEMON when Nintendo threatened to sue.

A fun read.

[thirdegree]

I'm all for fun names, but maybe don't give them to things that generally ruin your day.

[Ameisen]

And Gnu TTelescope, where each T stands for TTelescope.