Apache Point Observatory to be renamed
Posted by Matthew on Thursday October 30, 2003 @09:41AM
from the still-smells-as-foul dept.
Matthew writes: Apache Point Observatory, in New Mexico, has recently announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has offered a 50 million dollar grant to the observatory to develop image processing software that will allow astronomers to combine images from multiple telescopes to achieve resolution higher than any one telescope could achieve.
“This grant is really a breakthrough for us, and the conditions for granting it were quite liberal”, said a spokesman for New Mexico State University. “Although the new name is a mouthful, we are excited to rename the facility to Internet Information Server Point Observatory.”
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UPDATE: We apparently got the new name of the observatory incorrect. Our sources tell us the Observatory will be renamed to “Sharepoint Server Point Observatory”
Comment by Matthew — November 2, 2003 @ 9:40 pm
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One wonders why they don't just offer the whole tribe a Microsoft funded and operated casino franchise to change their tribal name to the Buffalo Bills….
Comment by Steve Franklin — November 12, 2003 @ 6:18 am