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Arecibo Observatory Collapses
El Vocero (Spanish language - looking for English source) ^ | 12/01/2020

Posted on 12/01/2020 4:37:35 AM PST by cll

The Arecibo Observatory's platform collapsed this morning due to structural failure.

In mid-November, the National Science Foundation had announced that the Observatory would be dismantled because of the danger it posed.

(Excerpt) Read more at elvocero.com ...


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KEYWORDS: arecibo; astronomy; observatory; puertorico; science; seti
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To: rlmorel

“...without humans to maintain structures, they will be swallowed up by nature pretty quickly.”

I always think that when I’m in Florida! If the humans left it would be taken over by the flora in about 6 weeks time.


21 posted on 12/01/2020 5:42:20 AM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: rlmorel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_After_People


22 posted on 12/01/2020 5:46:18 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: cll

Thank you.

Bump to the top.


23 posted on 12/01/2020 5:47:25 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: hoagy62

Yep. I re-watched it, coincidentally, just last month.

Side note - I went up to Mauna Kea Observatory, and it was cool to be above the clouds. On a real clear night in Hawaii you can see the Milky Way and so many stars you didn’t know are there. Cool stuff.


24 posted on 12/01/2020 5:48:24 AM PST by EEGator
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To: jocon307

Pythons, gators, and kudzu...


25 posted on 12/01/2020 5:49:46 AM PST by EEGator
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To: jocon307

Yes...it is pretty impressive when you see a structure that has not been maintained.

I have a small house near me in a wooded area (and this is in the Northeast US) and it has been condemned for about ten years.

With each passing year, it is covered in more moss and mildew, all around is overgrown, the roof is covered with pine needles, and you can see the entire house is just going to collapse...the roof is showing concavities, that kind of thing.

It will in my life time, revert to a pile of rubble, and in a generation, you would be able to walk by it in the woods and not really know there had been a house there except for a pipe or something.

Down in places like Florida, it is accelerated. It is a bit humbling, too.


26 posted on 12/01/2020 5:50:47 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: HangnJudge

Thanks.


27 posted on 12/01/2020 5:52:30 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: Red Badger

I’ll have to check that out sometime! Thanks...


28 posted on 12/01/2020 5:52:35 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: rlmorel

The city of Chernobyl is a prime example of what happens.
People were suddenly removed from the entire city.
It has returned to a wilderness area, buildings falling in and their entire contents still intact.

All the people left with just the clothes on their backs, basically. Even uneaten meals still on plates on tables.

A team of international scientists was allowed into the forbidden area a couple of years back and they were stunned to find animals of all kinds flourishing even though the radiation levels are way beyond what is safe.

What they surmised was that the animals aren’t bothered by the radiation because they do not live long enough for it to become a problem.................


29 posted on 12/01/2020 6:00:25 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: EEGator

Yep. And I think it was featured in Arrival if I’m not mistaken. What a shame to lose this asset.


30 posted on 12/01/2020 6:03:37 AM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: cll

I visited the site in the late 90’s. A winding road that made you feel carsick led to the observatory. They didn’t give tours, just let you see the place.

On the way down the mountain we stopped at a road side, “restaurant”. It was a family run shack with a dirt floor and goats and chickens wandering in and out along with the customers. Best lunch ever! Worth the trip. I remember a Mercedes pulled up and one of the most beautiful women on earth got out and got food to go.


31 posted on 12/01/2020 6:09:10 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: outofsalt

Fan iction? you decide

https://twitter.com/i/status/1333768485772668928


32 posted on 12/01/2020 6:20:48 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: cll
When Arthur C.Clarke wrote 2010:the Year We Make Contact,the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey in the early 1980s,he set the opening chapter at Arecibo. When the director,Peter Than A was the site, he thought that it looked run down, so he filmed at the Very Large Array in New Mexico.

33 posted on 12/01/2020 7:23:19 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: jocon307

“I always think that when I’m in Florida! If the humans left it would be taken over by the flora in about 6 weeks time.”


Same is true in much of Missouri. Unless you actively beat it back, the ‘jungle’ will take over. It may be more like years than weeks, but fields disappear.


34 posted on 12/01/2020 7:27:37 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Larry Lucido

Covid virus ate the cables up.


35 posted on 12/01/2020 7:35:37 AM PST by dljordan
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To: cll

https://twitter.com/ruperto1023/status/1333791522269978626?s=21

Aerial shot of collapsed dome, remaining towers


36 posted on 12/01/2020 7:52:27 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge

Thanks again.


37 posted on 12/01/2020 9:01:07 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: rlmorel; hanamizu; EEGator

It is indeed humbling.


38 posted on 12/01/2020 9:49:11 AM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: HangnJudge; BenLurkin
The Puerto Rico Seismic Network recorded waves from a nearby earthquake, and then the collapse itself, immediately following:


39 posted on 12/01/2020 10:42:54 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: cll
This one?

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pr2020336009/executive

40 posted on 12/01/2020 10:50:29 AM PST by HangnJudge
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