Another beloved beloved science facility...
Wonder if it is still for sale?
https://www.easthamptonstar.com/government/202019/no-auction-plum-island
Posted on 08/12/2020 2:26:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
At Arecibo, scientists conduct all sorts of work, from atmospheric and planetary science through to radio and radar astronomy and even searches for extraterrestrial intelligence, also known as SETI.
The purpose of these observations are to determine the ways in which red dwarf stars, like Barnard’s Star, affect the habitability of their planets. Méndez was also planning to embark on a SETI project to detect extraterrestrial technosignatures (i.e. evidence of alien technology), which would have leveraged both past and future observations at Arecibo. All this now appears to be on hold.
Méndez’s observations aren’t time critical, but others might be, including scans for potentially dangerous nearby asteroids.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmodo.com ...
Wife and I visited the big dish some years back. It’s a beautiful thing, featured in movies.
Thank you for posting the correct excerpt. (Proudly posting without reading the articles since 1998.)
Redundancy?
“Famed SETI Observatory Wrecked After Cable Breaks”
Covered all that.
I would not be remotely surprised to hear this was the work of the Chinese. They are evil.
Who cares, big waste of time and money. What’s it gonna cost to clean up the mess and return it to it’s natural state?
It was built by a consortium of American universities with US government financing.
It provides useful information.
Used to fly over it in a light plane when I lived in PR in the early ‘70s. Probably old technology now.
Right. I was looking for the excerpt to actually expand on the title, hence my consternation when it didn’t - and I was forced to read the article.
I’m intellectually lazy, I admit!
Does anyone know where Charlie Sheen was at the time?
Build it back but bigger then the communists 1500ft one.
When I saw the headline I thought of 007 vs 006.
Another beloved beloved science facility...
Wonder if it is still for sale?
https://www.easthamptonstar.com/government/202019/no-auction-plum-island
Maybe what allowed it to happen was the “manana”(sic) tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean. I’m referring to the old 1940s/50s song, “Manana is Good Enough for Me”.
A friend and I toured the site a couple of decades ago and had a phenomenal lunch at a roadside shack that had goats and chickens mixing with the clientele and cooks. It was packed and in front of us were a pair of lovely young chiquitas! The telescope was fairly boring.
Fails at basic grammar. Yeah, I think I'll trust his observations on advanced scientific methods...
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