[ExI] Arecibo radio telescope now collapsed completely.

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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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After two cable failures in the span of four months, Puerto Rico's
most venerable astronomy facility, the Arecibo radio telescope, has
collapsed in an uncontrolled structural failure.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), which owns the site,
decided in November to proceed with decommissioning the telescope in
response to the damage, which engineers deemed too severe to stabilize
without risking lives. But the NSF needed time to come up with a plan
for how to safely demolish the telescope in a controlled manner.

Instead, gravity did the job this morning (Dec. 1) at about 8 a.m.
local time, according to reports from the area.
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