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The watch capabilities for Near Earth Objects just took an immense hit.
1 posted on 12/01/2020 4:37:35 AM PST by cll
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did lack of maintenance caused the cable failure?


2 posted on 12/01/2020 4:38:53 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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F'ing Bond...


3 posted on 12/01/2020 4:39:19 AM PST by EEGator
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

4 posted on 12/01/2020 4:39:58 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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6 posted on 12/01/2020 4:43:30 AM PST by cll (Serviam!)
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The end of a technological era.


10 posted on 12/01/2020 4:53:17 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but thahat t the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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Arecibo collapse on Twitter

https://twitter.com/search/Arecibo+collapse


14 posted on 12/01/2020 5:10:36 AM PST by HangnJudge
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https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-green-bank-telescope-collapse-lessons

Arecibo isn’t the first radio telescope to unexpectedly fail. Here’s what we can learn from Green Bank’s collapse.


19 posted on 12/01/2020 5:27:19 AM PST by HangnJudge
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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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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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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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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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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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