United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Uncle Reno · Post by **Uncle Reno** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:01 pm

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!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:02 pm

Uncle Reno wrote:
Notice that the acronym is UNOOSA - those double 'o's get everywhere!

Darkbee · Post by **Darkbee** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:15 pm

And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...

It's sort of cool though.. is this how the federation of planets starts?

Uncle Reno · Post by **Uncle Reno** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:36 am

Darkbee wrote:
And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...

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"!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:57 am

Uncle Reno wrote:
Darkbee wrote:
And the winner for the most unpronounceable acronyms on a website homepage is...
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"!

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...

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:17 am

lol, how in Hell do you get "spider" out of that! acronymns aren't supposed to be anagrams are they?!

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:34 am

Killer Wolf wrote:
lol, how in Hell do you get "spider" out of that! acronymns aren't supposed to be anagrams are they?!

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!

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:07 am

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...

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 11:33 am

Mmmm, that's unfortunate, isn't it?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:38 pm

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!

Darkbee · Post by **Darkbee** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:44 pm

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!

I bet those original letter heads would fetch a handsome price eBay!

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:49 pm

Apparently, Mary Whitehouse (a now-deceased UK campaigner for "decency" on TV – i.e. casual racism OK, human sexuality not OK) was going to call her campaign "Clean Up National Television" ... sadly someone noticed before they made up the banners and the badges.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:37 pm

I heard a story that the local ambulance service in my area was going to be rebranded the Fife Area Rescue Team until someone noticed the acronym and poo-pooed the idea.

I don't know how true it is.

Post by **Disembodied** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:33 am

Wait, you're a Fifer? Whereabouts from? I ask because I grew up near Cupar ... that experience leads me to doubt the story. Not the acronym bit, the noticing bit.

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:17 pm

Yarr, born and brought up in Kirkcaldy, so watch your disparaging remarks about the mental well-being of the Fife health service!!

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