Talk:Very Large Telescope

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Can somebody please make a joke about the name? Or at least the desire to use the acronym VLT? Yes, I'm sure these jokes aren't very funny in conversation, but on the web, and to laymen .... Well, I'm going to go and have a lie-down.

A much better name would be the Adrian Pingstone Telescope seeing that I've done the two illustrations for the article.

Now that the name VLT has been used up, their next project is called OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope). Just the rotating part of OWL will weigh 12000 tons!!

By the way, you can sign your Username and Date with four tildes (the wavy thingy above the hash sign).

Adrian Pingstone 18:37, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Schlock Mercenary actually made a joke that referred to the VLT. At one point, the characters used a "Very Large Array" that essentially worked as a VLT.

Their array, however, was made out of a missile arsenal, so they subsequently dubbed it the "Very Dangerous Array" or VDA.

[edit] Images

As the two pics are non-commercial ESO PR-stuff, you may want to have a look at the commons, fresh and steaming.

[edit] First sentence

Can someone knowledgable about the subject write a good introductory sentence? Usually people want to know WHAT Very Large Telescope is (apart from the obvious), not what it conisists of.