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The investigation into why a cable mysteriously broke on the Arecibo Observatory has begun
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| 14 August 2020
| Hanneke Weitering
Posted on 08/15/2020 9:27:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:27:04 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
two possibilites:
1. substandard engineering and/or poor maintenance in a 3rd world rain-forest where everything constantly rusts, corrodes and rots ...
2. space aliens who got tired of being eavesdropped on ...
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:30:42 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: BenLurkin
I'm not sayin it was Aliens, but it was ALIENS
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:31:27 AM PDT
by
algore
To: BenLurkin
Monkeys.
It was those damn monkeys.
Monkeys monkeying around.
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:34:00 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: BenLurkin
Purchased a Chinese cable, that is my guess.
To: catnipman
Both good possibilities, so definitely it was the aliens.
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:41:30 AM PDT
by
dinodino
To: BenLurkin
the accident happened at approximately 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 GMT)
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Middle of the night. Wonder if there are cameras to monitor the facility 24X7?
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:44:16 AM PDT
by
Starboard
To: BenLurkin
Has David Vincent gotten there yet?
To: dinodino
SETI couldn’t find aliens if they got laser blasted by them.
;-)
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:46:33 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
To: catnipman
Aliens; it was aliens. We’re getting too close...
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posted on
08/15/2020 9:57:01 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: catnipman
3. Feces Occur
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:08:08 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
To: catnipman
“1. substandard engineering and/or poor maintenance in a 3rd world rain-forest where everything constantly rusts, corrodes and rots ...
^^^^^^^^^^^
The video I saw of the damage, it sure appears that the whole facility was in need of a coat of paint it looked a bit run down. I guess Hollywood wasn’t in town to shoot another movie around the facility. (Contact / GoldenEye)
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:14:05 AM PDT
by
DAC21
To: catnipman
It could be a simple as “stuff gets old and breaks.”
To: Starboard
Middle of the night. Wonder if there are cameras to monitor the facility 24X7? Radio astronomy goes on night and day. It's odd that it was idle. Arecibo was originally funded in part by the Navy to perform ionospheric studies, but they pulled out decades ago. It's been something of an orphan, really. The Chinese build a larger passive array (and had to relocate an entire village to do so) but Arecibo was still the largest active radio telescope (radar).
Security is obviously an issue, considering the location.
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:20:31 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
To: BenLurkin
nothing else on pr worth destroying, i put my money on the commie/leftists
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:26:47 AM PDT
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: DAC21
In that part of Puerto Rico the elements are very hard on any man-made structure. If it isnt in a blistering hot rain forest, it is right beside one. Paint and other nice finishes will not last more than a year or two.
BTW, the Aricebo dish is incredibly large. For me anyway, most things are larger in my imagination than they are in real life. Cathedrals, battlefields, and even the Grand Canyon, were smaller than I thought they would be. Surprizingly, dish at Arecibo was much, much larger than I imagined.
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:28:44 AM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: cgbg
Exactly.
Stanton Friedman on SETI: Silly Effort To Investigate
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:34:37 AM PDT
by
nralife
(Proud Boomer Rube)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:35:34 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Caveat Emperor)
To: Fester Chugabrew
They need to talk to the people that maintain the Brooklyn Bridge!
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posted on
08/15/2020 10:47:05 AM PDT
by
Shark24
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