[ExI] Arecibo radio telescope now collapsed completely.

[spike at rainier66.com]

>> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
Subject: [ExI] Arecibo radio telescope now collapsed completely.

>...The Arecibo radio telescope's massive hanging platform has collapsed By
Meghan Bartels  1 Dec 2020

The hanging structure crashed through Arecibo's radio dish after major cable
failures.
<https://www.space.com/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses>

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BillK
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Damn.

Fortunately since the Arecibo dish was built, we have figured out how to do
long baseline interferometry, which makes a group of smaller dishes act as a
much bigger reflector.

spike