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    Footage of Arecibo collapse

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    • Just Jeepin'
      Just Jeepin' last edited by

      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/

      On walkabout. Back soonish.

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      • EngineerWithTools
        EngineerWithTools last edited by 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.

        2015 F-150 Super Crew Long(ish) Bed, 3.5 EB, HD Towing Package
        2009 VW CC 2.0 T, 6 Speed
        2005 Regal 2400 350 SBC, B3

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        • CobraJoe
          CobraJoe last edited by

          This is a really weird year.

          '84 Mustang GT Convertible 5 speed
          '21 Challenger R/T 6 Speed

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          • Just Jeepin'
            Just Jeepin' @CobraJoe last edited by

            @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.

            On walkabout. Back soonish.

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            • RacinBob
              RacinBob last edited by

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

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              • CobraJoe
                CobraJoe @Just Jeepin' last edited by

                @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.

                '84 Mustang GT Convertible 5 speed
                '21 Challenger R/T 6 Speed

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                • BaconSandwich
                  BaconSandwich last edited by

                  This makes me want to go watch Goldeneye.

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                  • benn454
                    benn454 @Just Jeepin' last edited by

                    @just-jeepin 28 more days

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                    • benn454
                      benn454 @BaconSandwich last edited by

                      @baconsandwich For King and Country, James?

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                      • RiceRocketeer
                        RiceRocketeer @BaconSandwich last edited by

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

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                        • BaconSandwich
                          BaconSandwich @RiceRocketeer last edited by

                          @ricerocketeer

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

                          Boo-urns.

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                          • MM54
                            MM54 last edited by

                            holy shit

                            Craigslist will push me, and I'll say no; read my lips: no new projects.

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                            • Urambo Tauro
                              Urambo Tauro @BaconSandwich last edited by

                              @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!

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                              1998 Wrangler Sport

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                              • BaconSandwich
                                BaconSandwich @Urambo Tauro last edited by

                                @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?

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