Metaphor for our entire civilization. Rather sad to see this.
Looks like maintenance was not required. Kind of a primitive thing when you consider that we we are exploring deep space by actually sending something out there.
Puerto Rico … Right?
Then it’s Trump’s fault … Right?
Indeed a tragedy and a loss of one of the world’s greatest radio telescopes. Many years ago, I helped with some data processing. Arecibo collected huge amounts of data and didn’t have the computing power to process it all. So Project SETI set up a computer program to function as a screen saver. Each day SETI would send a data package to everyone with such a screen saver. Each individual’s computer would then process the data and return any results to SETI. It was a completely free program, and I presume that hundreds or thousands of people participated over the years. For my part, I kept the screensaver and kept processing and sending data back to SETI for about 10 years until the program was discontinued.
All of the original data would have been gathered by the Arecibo radio telescope.
Most frightening sentence I read recently:
2021: Hold my beer.
Looks like James Bond was there. Is he okay?
It warned of asteroids that may hit earth so that we may be able to deflect them from hitting earth.God works in mysterious ways.
How many hundreds of satellites are out there doing the same thing?
Sad to see an old friend go, I remember it as a kid, but we will be able to build vast telescaopes on the moon, shaded from Earth EM pollution, which will dwarf Arecibo.
In the movie Contact, the first scene ends when a young Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster), who is on the radio in her father’s ham shack, makes the comment that she might need a bigger antenna. After fading to black, the next scene opens when she, now an adult, is standing beside the Arecibo facility, which, at that time, was the largest radio telescope in the world, with a corresponding antenna.
That part of the plot was not so far-fetched. One amateur radio mode is earth-moon-earth (EME), also referred to as moonbounce. In 1946, Project Diana demonstrated that it was possible to reflect radio signals off the lunar surface, and, after that, radio amateurs have used the moon to make contacts with other stations. (I know of one ham who’s used EME to reach as far as Argentina.)
Arecibo has been used for that purpose at least once.
I guess the poor thing got “smershed”…
Very sad.
Looks like the decision that it was too dangerous to attempt any repairs was well taken. Maybe now that it’s gone, they can build a new one.
Rust never sleeps.
So it lasted 57 yrs. Obviously not Made In China. It will be interesting to see how long the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China lasts. How’s that dam doing by the way?
A comment on the youtube video said they were given 12 million dollars to fix previous hurricane damage but the money disappeared in corruption.
I was amused by the comment about the visitor center fortunately being undamaged.
Do they really think they are going to get visitors now?
Didnt one “arm” of the US Military have a hand in repairing it? If so….. how and where did the $$$$$ go?
It’s not supposed to do that?
Metaphor for our entire civilization. Rather sad to see this.
Looks like maintenance was not required. Kind of a primitive thing when you consider that we we are exploring deep space by actually sending something out there.
Puerto Rico … Right?
Then it’s Trump’s fault … Right?
Indeed a tragedy and a loss of one of the world’s greatest radio telescopes. Many years ago, I helped with some data processing. Arecibo collected huge amounts of data and didn’t have the computing power to process it all. So Project SETI set up a computer program to function as a screen saver. Each day SETI would send a data package to everyone with such a screen saver. Each individual’s computer would then process the data and return any results to SETI. It was a completely free program, and I presume that hundreds or thousands of people participated over the years. For my part, I kept the screensaver and kept processing and sending data back to SETI for about 10 years until the program was discontinued.
All of the original data would have been gathered by the Arecibo radio telescope.
Most frightening sentence I read recently:
2021: Hold my beer.
Looks like James Bond was there. Is he okay?
It warned of asteroids that may hit earth so that we may be able to deflect them from hitting earth.God works in mysterious ways.
How many hundreds of satellites are out there doing the same thing?
Sad to see an old friend go, I remember it as a kid, but we will be able to build vast telescaopes on the moon, shaded from Earth EM pollution, which will dwarf Arecibo.
In the movie Contact, the first scene ends when a young Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster), who is on the radio in her father’s ham shack, makes the comment that she might need a bigger antenna. After fading to black, the next scene opens when she, now an adult, is standing beside the Arecibo facility, which, at that time, was the largest radio telescope in the world, with a corresponding antenna.
That part of the plot was not so far-fetched. One amateur radio mode is earth-moon-earth (EME), also referred to as moonbounce. In 1946, Project Diana demonstrated that it was possible to reflect radio signals off the lunar surface, and, after that, radio amateurs have used the moon to make contacts with other stations. (I know of one ham who’s used EME to reach as far as Argentina.)
Arecibo has been used for that purpose at least once.
I guess the poor thing got “smershed”…
Very sad.
Looks like the decision that it was too dangerous to attempt any repairs was well taken. Maybe now that it’s gone, they can build a new one.
Rust never sleeps.
So it lasted 57 yrs. Obviously not Made In China. It will be interesting to see how long the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China lasts. How’s that dam doing by the way?
A comment on the youtube video said they were given 12 million dollars to fix previous hurricane damage but the money disappeared in corruption.
I was amused by the comment about the visitor center fortunately being undamaged.
Do they really think they are going to get visitors now?
Didnt one “arm” of the US Military have a hand in repairing it? If so….. how and where did the $$$$$ go?