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Astrobiology

Ah, Those Acronyms

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
October 8, 2014
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NASA awards CU-Boulder-led team $7 million to study origins, evolution of life in universe
“NASA awarded seven grants totaling almost $50 million to seven winning research teams that will explore the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The other six victorious teams are … the Search for Extraterrestrial Existence, or SETI, in Mountain View, Calif. …”
Keith’s note: Well, they fixed it. The original version is posted here. They did not issue a revision to the media however.

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

5 responses to “Ah, Those Acronyms”

  1. Paul451 says:
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    Screw up by the Pubic Affairs Offense or the Universary of Bolder?

    • hikingmike says:
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      Looks like University of Colorado-Boulder. (Why do they call it CU-Boulder? With all the similar university acronyms, the order is important.)

  2. anwatkins says:
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    *Facepalm* When words cannot express the amount of failure….

  3. catlettuce redux says:
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    Delete that – I see it now.

  4. Chris Winter says:
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    It could be worse. At least they didn’t refer to “looking for habitable life in outer space” the way Yvette Mimieux did at the beginning of The Black Hole.