United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
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United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Nice to know that we have one.
Link to the official site here and to a story on the Independent website here.
Notice that the acronym is UNOOSA - those double 'o's get everywhere!
Link to the official site here and to a story on the Independent website here.
Notice that the acronym is UNOOSA - those double 'o's get everywhere!
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Uncle Reno wrote:Notice that the acronym is UNOOSA - those double 'o's get everywhere!
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I thought the best one though was the acronym for the "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response" which they managed to make into..... "UN-SPIDER"!Darkbee wrote:And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...
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Uncle Reno wrote:I thought the best one though was the acronym for the "United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response" which they managed to make into..... "UN-SPIDER"!Darkbee wrote:And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...
Happens all the time - in the MOD there's a facility at RAF Benson called "Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility" - which is NOT pronounced M-SHAT-F (as I did the first time I saw it written down ) but M-SHAFT...
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Another "miltary" one is TENA (pronounced TEE-NAH) - Test and Training Enabling Architecture. I suspect it stood for something else originally and they just kept the name!Killer Wolf wrote:lol, how in Hell do you get "spider" out of that! acronymns aren't supposed to be anagrams are they?!
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And a more scientific one from the semiconductor industry (where I pretend to work and they pretend to pay me).
An older technology is Carbon Nanotubes, usually abbreviated to CNT. Unfortunately they've now developed this and can make them from metal - specifically Copper (chemical symbol Cu).
I'll leave the acronym that everyone avoids to your imagination...
An older technology is Carbon Nanotubes, usually abbreviated to CNT. Unfortunately they've now developed this and can make them from metal - specifically Copper (chemical symbol Cu).
I'll leave the acronym that everyone avoids to your imagination...
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Thargoid wrote:And a more scientific one from the semiconductor industry (where I pretend to work and they pretend to pay me).
An older technology is Carbon Nanotubes, usually abbreviated to CNT. Unfortunately they've now developed this and can make them from metal - specifically Copper (chemical symbol Cu).
I'll leave the acronym that everyone avoids to your imagination...
My sister-in-law's Polytechnic when it was becoming a University got as far a the first run of letterheads for approval before somebody noticed that "City University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne" - would probably not be a good idea!
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I bet those original letter heads would fetch a handsome price eBay!DaddyHoggy wrote:♦My sister-in-law's Polytechnic when it was becoming a University got as far a the first run of letterheads for approval before somebody noticed that "City University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne" - would probably not be a good idea!
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