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Zemyla
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"Arecibo Telescope, 1963-2020"
 
   http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/arecibo-telescope-collapses-ending-57-year-run

The support wires started breaking earlier this year, forcing them to decommission it, but before they could do anything to repair them, the instrument platform collapsed into the telescope bowl, destroying them both beyond repair.


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VoidRandom
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1. "RE: Arecibo Telescope, 1963-2020"
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   It was sabotaged by the incoming aliens: https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-object-earth-nasa-asteroid-1551202

-VR
I know they say it is a Centaur booster...but they would say that, wouldn't they.
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."


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rwpikul
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2. "RE: Arecibo Telescope, 1963-2020"
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   >http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/arecibo-telescope-collapses-ending-57-year-run
>
>The support wires started breaking earlier this year, forcing them to
>decommission it, but before they could do anything to repair them, the
>instrument platform collapsed into the telescope bowl, destroying them
>both beyond repair.

It was already beyond repair when the second cable went, that's when it became too dangerous to attempt a repair and possibly too dangerous to demolish.

--
Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)


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