Originally published at: Arecibo telescope won't be rebuilt | Boing Boing
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“Even in this metric age, it was still the thousand-foot telescope, not the three hundred-meter one. The great saucer set among the mountains was already half full of shadow, as the tropical sun dropped swiftly to rest, but the triangular raft of the antenna complex suspended high above its centre still blazed with light. From the ground far below, it would have taken keen eyes to notice the two human figures in the aerial maze of girders, support cables, and wave-guides.”
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I go “skate park” in the jungle. It’s got potential…
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Fill it with water and stock it with fish.
Sport fishing in the jungle has a nice ring to it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi.
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“We already have the World’s second largest radio telescope. Soon we will have the World’s third and fourth largest telescope - and all with the same equipment!”
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Arecibo had radar transmitters as well as radio telescope receivers. It was quite a versatile facility, whose functionality isn’t duplicated anywhere else. That’s why this is so sad.
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Zorbing.
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…and it was an amazing place to visit as well. i am glad i got to see it while it was operational.
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It was the cell phones slowly completing their conquest.
Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school
Losing the world’s most powerful radar system for planetary science is, well, a huge loss.
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Arecibo is where gramps was from.
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It’s so so sad to see it like that. For all my childhood and young adult years, Arecibo was a monument to exploration, science, and seeking truth. To quote Carl, it was a candle in the darkness. An incredible example of what humanity can do when we put our efforts to something positive. I dreamt of seeing it someday.
Losing it is a step backwards, at least symbolically if not exactly scientifically.
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