Bacronym as Art-Form

I don’t really know what these are, but they look like the sort of thing I’m normally interested in, so I’ll include them.

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On the box it says “MacroBot _ Human Scale Protein Folding” which is fair enough, but I suspect very strongly that they just made these things – and then decided what they looked like afterwards – a bit like bacronyms etc, and there’s nothing wrong about that, as long as you don’t go into loads of detail about “meaning” etc, as though that was what you meant to make all along.

I think I would have called it “Houston We Have A Problem : Lunar Landing Modules, Procrastinating to Music”. or “Lunar Landing Modules trying to get the lid off an imaginary jam-jar” or something else to do with Lunar Landing Modules.

One of these :

edit: yes, well I was wrong about all that. This was actually part of some research in the MilliBiology project at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms under Neil Gershenfeld, and wasn’t a Bacronym, rather the focus was on chain folding as a way to have human scale reconfigurable structures.

So there you go.