Posted on 12/03/2020 9:05:28 AM PST by cll
Gone in seconds.
Then I read that it was being run by "national champions" UCF and it made sense. LOL
Neglected by the local government?
Steel cables under tension like that are outrageously dangerous when they suddenly fail and start whipping around. They’d cut through a man like a hot knife through butter. I imagine that once it started collapsing a few weeks ago there was general understanding that there was no safe way to put men up there to keep the rest from going and so it was already a fait accompli. Too bad, as an engineer I hate to see things like this.
It is run by the University of Central Florida and the National Science Foundation. Before that it was run by Cornell University.
Well, that’s unsurprising, as they’ve been looking at it deteriorate for years with their thumbs up their butts, knowing this is the outcome. Biden’s fault.
That's exactly what they are saying.
Symbolic of the state of America: long term deterioration followed by sudden collapse.
...(Insert pic of Spock saying Fascinating here...)...
It’s an old piece of crap falling apart in the jungle. If there is a compelling reason to continue monitoring ten million channels of space static at taxpayer expense then it will be rebuilt. If not, then it won’t. Nothing to get all teary-eyed over.
Bookmark...
Yes. Sad.
True. It is more the end of an era. Most of us grew up with this in place, it was part of the culture.
I saw a Chinese news report on this with them kinda gloating that the dish was destroyed. Remarks on the site agreed it showed the USA was falling apart.
I think we are all beginning to understand what the ancient Romans experienced when their world fell apart as their ruling class failed and the barbarian hordes rushed in to dim the light of the Western civilization for at least 500 years.
A symbol of the cold war era but we have to let it go just like we watched the car that got us through college towed away to the auto graveyard. Sentimentality is okay... up to a point. Also we have yet to find intelligent life right here, let alone up there.
A drone was watching the snap point when it went: https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1334536726975574016?s=20
It is (for me) sentimentality. I have a more sanguine view of humanity, but...even for myself, I wonder more often than I should about intelligent life on this planet.
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