OT Interesting news item

El_Phil · #1 September 20th, 2005, 10:30 PM

I want to meet the poor buggers in the DARPA acronym department. There's that and MAHEM. They work so hard at contrived acronyms there, the poor lambs.

Ed Kolis · #2 September 20th, 2005, 10:41 PM

Look at the tonnage on that thing... only 0.00075kT! Someone over at Malfador needs to look into miniaturization technology!

Caduceus · #3 September 22nd, 2005, 10:18 AM

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El_Phil said: They work so hard at contrived acronyms there, the poor lambs.

OT in an OT thread... It irritates me recently that medical studies are doing this too. I can't think of a good one off the top of my head, but various drug companies are doing trials like STAR and PROTEC and others to make them "catchy" so that if they pan out, they have a good name to refer to when they try to corner the market in hypertension (or whatever). Of course, if it busts, you never hear about it

Xrati · #4 September 22nd, 2005, 11:09 AM

What I do know is that when this country releases some 'Top Secret' craft, weapon or project, they generally have something better that they are working on!