Blowing up mountains for science

[Gamma Male]

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SCIENCE! : D

[Camazotz]

Awesome, but it's in desperate need of a name-change. A magnificent structure like this shouldn't be called The Extremely Large Telescope; that's just not right.

[Gamma Male]

Awesome, but it's in desperate need of a name-change. A magnificent structure like this shouldn't be called The Extremely Large Telescope; that's just not right.

I always thought it was really funny. I mean, the joke is that you would expect a telescope that magnificent and epic to have a name that's also magnificent and epic, but it doesn't. It's just "The Extremely Large Telescope". It's funny. Like when comedians intentionally screw up the punchline.

[Microcosm]

Man, I'll be excited to see this. Should be really cool.

[Kurgg]

I expected a bigger explosion...

[JamesSuperBoy]

I am not sure if that is justified.

[CosmicNoodle]

Awesome, but it's in desperate need of a name-change. A magnificent structure like this shouldn't be called The Extremely Large Telescope; that's just not right.

I think it should be called something like "the final telescope" or "the end telesope"
(Nice xkcd reference there)

Edit:

Found the image:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/telescope_names.png

[Gamma Male]

I am not sure if that is justified.

What do you mean?