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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

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To: HangnJudge

Apparently, yes. That on top of an unending series of small earthquakes we’ve been having since the biggish ones in January.


41 posted on 12/01/2020 11:04:48 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: cll
A good short story on some of Arecibo's discoveries


42 posted on 12/01/2020 12:08:16 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: EEGator; cll; BenLurkin; SunkenCiv; Politically Correct; mad_as_he$$; Red Badger; HangnJudge; ...

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.


43 posted on 12/01/2020 12:20:39 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

How about a GoFundMe for it?..................


44 posted on 12/01/2020 12:21:33 PM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: cll

What’s Spanish for “adware farm?”


45 posted on 12/01/2020 12:21:38 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: gleeaikin
Well, it could be rebuilt,
there is a premade perfect site at Winslow, NM
3,900 feet across and 560 feet deep

Wouldn't have to fight the jungle all the time either,
easily accessed, and very dry climate

46 posted on 12/01/2020 12:30:42 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge

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


47 posted on 12/01/2020 12:45:28 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: cll

https://www.engadget.com/arecibo-observatory-collapse-173522919.html


48 posted on 12/01/2020 4:00:21 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Larry Lucido

The Aliens did it to blind us to their incoming invasion.


49 posted on 12/02/2020 6:50:11 AM PST by DEPcom
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To: HangnJudge; BenLurkin

Video of the collapse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0F3rPHp1E&feature=emb_logo


50 posted on 12/03/2020 9:01:33 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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To: Politically Correct

The facility looks almost Soviet in its run-down-ness. Even basic stuff like peeling paint on the concrete towers.


51 posted on 12/03/2020 9:13:36 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: cll

Thank you.


52 posted on 12/03/2020 9:55:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (The aboe is not a statment of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: cll

Visio could be used in beginner civil engineering tutorials on castastrophic failure, like galloping girtie


53 posted on 12/03/2020 10:19:18 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: cll

And closeup from drone

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/nsf-had-a-drone-watching-as-arecibos-cables-snapped/


54 posted on 12/03/2020 2:08:11 PM PST by HangnJudge
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