Footage of Arecibo collapse

[Just Jeepin']

Apparently they were conducting hourly drone inspections and happened to be at the right place at the wrong time.

https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arecibo/

[EngineerWithTools]

Holy moly.

What luck (if that's the word) to have a drone 'looking' at that the tower whose cables started the thing. At the end, after the drone has pulled up and zoomed out, you can tell that the tower it was looking at is the only one still with the top, which makes sense. [Edit: I’m wrong, after snapping backwards when the load was relieved, errr, suddenly, that tower top also broke off.]

Watching the anchorage move as the cables snap is incredibly cool (again, maybe not the best word). That's the top of a giant concrete tower and it's moving fast, and a lot.

Regardless, I wish it weren't so. I know that Arecibo's best days were behind anyway, and that there are better technologies now, but still, this feels like a real loss.

[CobraJoe]

This is a really weird year.

[Just Jeepin']

@cobrajoe I was just thinking how I'd almost forgotten about Beirut, which in any other year would have been a top 2 or 3 story.

Australian wildfires. U.S. wildfires. African locusts (remember those?). Record-breaking hurricane season. Coronavirus. Beirut. Murder hornets.

U.S. presidential election that will never end.

What. A. Year.

[RacinBob]

Here is the youtube version. You can see the drone in the very center background in the first view.

[CobraJoe]

@just-jeepin Stainless steel monoliths, DOD released UFO videos, mysterious drones over Nebraska...

I also had a coworker pass away a couple weeks ago, just to pile on top of that huge list.

Yeah, it's a weird year.

[BaconSandwich]

This makes me want to go watch Goldeneye.

[benn454]

@just-jeepin 28 more days

[benn454]

@baconsandwich For King and Country, James?

[RiceRocketeer]

@baconsandwich The full movie is free on the Tube of You!

[BaconSandwich]

@ricerocketeer

"Video unavailable
The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Boo-urns.

[MM54]

holy shit

[Urambo Tauro]

@baconsandwich said in Footage of Arecibo collapse:

This makes me want to go watch Goldeneye.

This makes me want to go play Goldeneye. With DK and paintball modes on!

[BaconSandwich]

@urambo-tauro said in Footage of Arecibo collapse:

@baconsandwich said in Footage of Arecibo collapse:

This makes me want to go watch Goldeneye.

This makes me want to go play Goldeneye. With DK and paintball modes on!

How about license to kill, proximity mines in the complex, first to 20 kills?