Did you hear that the Very Large Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico is taking public suggestions for a new name? They’re upgrading the technology and expanding the center for 2012 and (thankfully) realized “EVLA” (Expanded Very Large Array) was no better than “VLA”. (Although it is charmingly literal.)
Submit your name suggestion here.
(The VLA is the facility on which Carl Sagan based the setting for Project Argus in Contact. How many times do you think people have submitted that one?)
October 20, 2011 @ 3:49 pm
There was also an automated listening post in Star Trek: The Next Generation called the Argus Array.