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 ...
Apparently, yes. That on top of an unending series of small earthquakes we’ve been having since the biggish ones in January.
First of all what a loss to science and asteroid safety observation. Has there been any talk of building a replacement given that dismantling had already been decided. The stars are more wonderful when there is little or no ambient light. I go out to West Virginia at times and love to look at the Milky Way and search for the constellations. Once when I was in Chicoteague, VA, there was a massive power failure for 40 miles up and down the coast. The stars were unbelievably brilliant and about 4 times as large as they normally appeared, and of course a lot more of them.
How about a GoFundMe for it?..................
What’s Spanish for “adware farm?”
Wouldn't have to fight the jungle all the time either,
easily accessed, and very dry climate
A large number of (slightly radioactive) smaller conical indentations are available a bit north of Mercury, Nevada at Nevada Testing site that might be repurposed as radio-observatories
The Aliens did it to blind us to their incoming invasion.
The facility looks almost Soviet in its run-down-ness. Even basic stuff like peeling paint on the concrete towers.
Thank you.
Visio could be used in beginner civil engineering tutorials on castastrophic failure, like galloping girtie
And closeup from drone
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/nsf-had-a-drone-watching-as-arecibos-cables-snapped/
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