https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/01/arecibo_collapse/
Apparently the last cables snapped and the instrument platform crashed into the dish.
Apparently the last cables snapped and the instrument platform crashed into the dish.
![]() https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/01/arecibo_collapse/ Apparently the last cables snapped and the instrument platform crashed into the dish. |
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![]() ..says one irascible commenator.. Perusing the (google == bad-translate) from my once better Español: Seems that the Government maintenance--access roads on through entire construction--has been as miserable as ..all the scurrilous machinations (via US and the greedheads in charge) of this benighted but beautiful place: is being excoriated in most of the comments. Sic transit Gloria Phillipines--fat chance in a near-bankrupt world, of any replacement soon :-/ (I didn't much flinch when the 'Bevatron' complex got scrapped); after all, it had accelerated everything on the Periodic Chart (well, to 6.2 GeV/C anyway) --not that the dis-US later ran with the beautiful Bragg-peak of heavy-ions, sharp as a surgeon's scalpel--for further use on humans, of these remarkable capabilities. Japan built a H.I. accelerator, ..tiny compared with the tandem accelerators needed at LBL: with energy range re humans. Last I heard, we built zippo. But Arecibo was right Up-there in modern relevance to scoping the Galaxies. (Bloody-Bezos could fund a replacement--just out of grift profits from COVID). |
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