Friday, December 04, 2020

Too Much 2020: Arecibo Collapse

      If you haven't seen the video of the final guy-wire failure that smashed the antenna platform into the radiotelescope dish, here it is, fixed camera and drone views.

     This is a truly crappy year.

4 comments:

Stuart (from uk) said...

It is very sad

RandyGC said...

I saw a comment on the internet when the decision was made not to repair Arecibo:

"Now they can build it on the far side of the Moon, as God and Heinlein intended"

Will Brown said...

I 100% endorse this position.

rickn8or said...

And here, in much more painful detail:

https://youtu.be/59WQIRvezzI