RIP Arecibo
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I say leave it and let it collapse. I kinda dig ruins and jungles.
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Turn it into a skateboarding park.
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aw, I was hoping they'd find a way/funding to repair it
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@carsoffortlangley And when you combine jungles and ruins they're even better.
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@krustywantout It'd be safer than most
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The Cradle from GoldenEye!
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Also not buying the reason it's falling apart.
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That's a bummer. When the first cable snapped was bad enough but when a little while ago I heard about the second I got a little concerned. Might be one of those things that's easier (and no doubt safer) to decommission and replace than try to repair. Hopefully they are able to replace it with something better
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@mm54 said in RIP Arecibo:
That's a bummer. When the first cable snapped was bad enough but when a little while ago I heard about the second I got a little concerned. Might be one of those things that's easier (and no doubt safer) to decommission and replace than try to repair. Hopefully they are able to replace it with something better
Considering funding for ongoing operations was a struggle, I’ll be shocked if they replace it.
(Pleasantly shocked, obvs).
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I see in the article that the instrument platform weighs 900 tons. I suppose the problem here is that they assembled it in pieces and that there is no safe way to get it down or to even work on it in the decayed state. I suppose they will cut the cables and let it fall.
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*defers maintenance for 20 years|
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If you like your movies.
This is the location (pretended to be in Cuba) in the movie 90s Bond Film (and video game) GoldenEye. Also, seen in the movie Contact.
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Has it been doing any meaningful science lately?
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I think it was still somewhat operable even after the hurricane damage (which wasn’t THAT major) and was being used for at least something until cables started snapping
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@carsoffortlangley sounds like an opportunity for a Goldeneye sequel...
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@benjrblant That's kind of what I was thinking.
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Cute.
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@rusty-vandura I was wondering if anybody was going to notice that
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@ttyymmnn Well, I certainly would. There's a new 75-character signature size limit that apparently you've satisfied. (Will be in the report on the first session of the Duma, which was exceedingly excellent.)
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@ttyymmnn People will say, "I never heard of a Schilke motorcycle." But surely there are others. Character-limited?
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@rusty-vandura Character limited. I wasn't going to list all of them, just the ones that I play with some regularity. I'd need a lot of characters otherwise. What I really need is just 8 more characters, but I don't want to ditch the top line. I really like the new font size and color for the sigs, though.
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@benjrblant Also known as the Steve Jobs demolition technique
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@jawzx2 Apparently, they had ordered a replacement for the first cable that broke, but, the second one snapped before they could install it, and now the structure's too unstable to work on safely. Also, they now have to assume that all remaining cables are at risk of failure.
