Talk:Target of opportunity

Latest comment: 3 months ago by PhaseClosure in topic The expanding entomology etymology

The expanding entomology etymology

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Because of terrorism, and related news casts that describe terrorist targets of opportunity,[1] I am curious if we should expand this article's scope, and consider it as former military jargon that has come to epitomize broader mechanism's of targeting. My76Strat (talk) 05:55, 18 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Something... something... conspiracy theory about insect robots being used by the military. Ha ha. (Changed the heading). Stalwart111 05:35, 19 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
Something like usage, scope, or application would be better IMO, but that is an improvement (if less amusing). Thanks.—Odysseus1479 05:51, 19 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • I just came here looking for information about the astronomical meaning (e.g. [4]), and found nothing, so I'd also agree with an expansion. Ouroboros726 (talk) 19:22, 8 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
    I agree. This is a very common use in astronomy, and becoming more so as multimessenger astronomy is making target of opportunity observations triggered by a different instrument or observatory much more common. E.g., triggering a radio astronomical observation based on a LIGO event. PhaseClosure (talk) 17:42, 18 July 2024 (UTC)Reply