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    12/02/2020 11:24 am  #1

    monster
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    December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant



    The Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico lasted for 67 years, constructed over a sinkhole which housed its 1,000-foot-diameter collecting dish.  Recently, it was announced that it would be dismantled because of failures in the structure, but it decided not to wait for its execution and collapsed yesterday.  This image is from Sciencemag.org

    Wikipedia link for more numerical facts etc

    The telescope was used in the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, and scientific discoveries aided by the telescope include that Mercury spins faster than previously thought and has icy caps, and the discovery of the first binary pulsar. More at Forbes

    This is how it used to look:
    [img]https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/wHib7ExWTYXc8Gg34jHl15QMk1E=/0x0:5351x3567/920x613/filters:focal(2248x1356:3104x2212):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/68042486/1229684803.0.jpg[/img]
    that image is from The Verge


     

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    12/02/2020 1:06 pm  #2

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    Re: December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant

    Let's point fingers.

     

    12/02/2020 1:34 pm  #3

    monster
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    Re: December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant

    It was me.  I'm sorry.

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    12/02/2020 2:11 pm  #4

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    Re: December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant

    your Mama's   so fat   that..

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    12/02/2020 7:26 pm  #5

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    Re: December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant

    yebbut your Papa's so dumb that......

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    12/02/2020 9:13 pm  #6

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    Re: December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant

    Pretty sad.  I heard on the radio that it was the preeminent science facility on the whole island.  Tours by schoolchildren, etc. etc.

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    12/02/2020 9:56 pm  #7

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    I went to college with a guy from Puerto Rico, and shortly after I met him, he told me proudly of the observatory and asked if I knew of it.  That was 1985, so it was only 32 years old then.

     

    12/03/2020 4:51 pm  #8

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    Re: December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant

    I first heard of it in a number of sci-fi movies... it was always the observatory they picked to be the one to notice the aliens.

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    12/03/2020 5:19 pm  #9

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    Re: December 2, 2020: Collapse of a Giant

    This is a bummer.

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    12/03/2020 9:48 pm  #10

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    https://damn-8791.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/arecibo.mp4

    Video of the collapse

     

     

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