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Message Subject Rosetta Comet Orbiter -** 120 Icy Patches ** Philae Phones Home ** Ceres Fly Over Video ** New Coma Discovery ** Picture MOTHER LODE !
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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The instrument ALICE doesn't stand for anything BTW, it's just a name that the principle investigator likes, according to JPL.

A couple of funny acronyms I like. In Britain, during times of national emergency like the Iraq crisis or last winter's Ashes series, the government meets in a COBRA meeting. This makes it sound like they are all sitting around in superhero costumes. COBRA actually stands for cabinet office briefing room A, so actually it's a meeting room in the heart of Whitehall's bureaucratic home. There is some suggestion that originally it was just called briefing room A, but BRA was not thought to be macho enough.

The winner, however is NASA ( National Acronym Slingers Association ) with the Ka-Band Objects Observation and Monitoring or

*** KaBOOM ***


How about that.

[link to www.universetoday.com]

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