Science
FAST may stand for:
- Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
- Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training, a NASA program
- Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
- Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
- Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool
- Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope (China)
- Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient
- Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology, Pakistan
- Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method
- Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
- Future Attribute Screening Technology
- FAST (stroke), (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time) a proposed method to detect the beginning of a stroke
- Fuel And Sensor Tactical (FAST) Packs, a type of Conformal Fuel Tank developed for the F-15.
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
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—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)