[SunkenCiv]

An image of the Arecibo Observatory's iconic radio telescope as seen between two serious cable failures that preceded the facility's collapse in 2020.

Image credit: University of Central Florida

[Magnum44]

I hold Pierce Brosnan responsible for that damage...

[ByteMercenary]

... but ... but the James Bond movie showed it destroyed way before 2020 ...

[tet68]

according to NASA, our planet is safe from deadly asteroid impacts for at least the next 100 years.

Well, I know I will sleep better tonight...

[BobL]

“Collapsed Arecibo telescope”

Not too smart to put telescopes in the Third World.

[algore]

I was once in Canada long before GPS, I don't remember why, but I think it was cause I was in Wyoming or North Dakota and decided I might as well drive through Canada to get to Alaska.

I ended up getting kinda lost, but figured if I kept heading west it would be all ok eventually. I ended up at the Dominion Radio Observatory which is in the very middle of nowhere

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dominion+radio+observatory&t=newext&atb=v263-1&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

I parked in the parking lot 1/4 mile away cause they did not need the car electronics messing up the alien signal reception and walked to check it out.

The Scientists were very cool and let me in and watch them reposition the dish and do some measurements.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Sad. Are they going to ever rebuild it, or build something similar somewhere?

[NewHampshireDuo]

I understand that the site will become a STEM learning center.

[MHGinTN]

Perhaps one is Wormwood???

[minnesota_bound]

An asteroid hit the radio antenna... BAM!

[M Kehoe]

Bond’s fault.

5.56mm