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> The GNSS-based Upper Atmospheric Realtime Disaster Information and Alert Network (GUARDIAN) is an ionospheric monitoring yadayadayadascience

That's a pretty impressive number of scrabble points for a project acronym, and I guess bonus points for building that acronym on top of another acronym (GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite System, generic term for America's GPS).

I know government projects have a long, storied history of such wordplay. Anyone have any fun stories on coming up with a really elaborate one? I wonder if chatGPT will unleash a new era of creativity with these...

parent floatrock 1 year ago

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