Iconic Arecibo Observatory telescope collapsed

[RayDunzl]

What's with the irregular spiral pattern in toward the middle.

Maybe a construction catwalk:

 

[restorer-john]

China has one they might let us use...

View attachment 97059

https://www.google.com/maps/place/F...472359016238f4!8m2!3d25.6528077!4d106.8566259

May I use your new radio telescope please?
可以用你的新射电望远镜吗？
Wǒ kěyǐ yòng nǐ de xīn shèdiàn wàngyuǎnjìng ma?

That's actually the world's biggest inverted cone subwoofer. They are going to do more research into the elusive brown note. Their goal is to give the entire world the s#$ts.

 

[RayDunzl]

Besides, it is not yet operational is it?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02790-3

Wiki:
Construction of FAST began in 2011. It observed first light in September 2016.[7] After three years of testing and commissioning,[8] it was declared fully operational on 11 January 2020.[9]

 

[RickSanchez]

Video footage of the collapse. Same video has both stationary footage from the control room as well aerial footage from a drone.

• https://gizmodo.com/drone-video-shows-dramatic-moment-of-arecibo-collapse-1845799543

 

[Blumlein 88]

Obviously the drone caused the collapse.

 

[Wes]

NSF has science education funds that they could use for a rebuild

 

[Rick Sykora]

Yes, kind of sad to see, but at least it managed to last just beyond the SETI project.

Donated computer time to it for decades...

SETI@home is in hibernation.
We are no longer distributing tasks. The SETI@home message boards will continue to operate, and we'll continue working on the back-end data analysis. Maybe we'll even find ET!
Thanks to everyone for your support over the years. We encourage you to keep crunching for science.

 

[TheWalkman]

China has one they might let us use...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/F...472359016238f4!8m2!3d25.6528077!4d106.8566259

May I use your new radio telescope please?
可以用你的新射电望远镜吗？
Wǒ kěyǐ yòng nǐ de xīn shèdiàn wàngyuǎnjìng ma?

And when you aren’t making astronomical observations, you can use this fix a stir-fry for 2/3 of Beijing!

 

[restorer-john]

It'll probably end up getting a nickname like "Big Wok" if it hasn't already.

 

[Blumlein 88]

SETI will be successful by 2036 or you can get a free Starbucks.
https://www.thedebrief.org/seti-astronomer-bets-you-a-cup-of-coffee-that-we-find-aliens-by-2036/

 

[somebodyelse]

NSF has science education funds that they could use for a rebuild

Perhaps, but in order to do that something else would have to be cancelled. There's an apparently well informed take on what it was unusually good at and what's more cost effective at other facilities. Taking a quote from towards the end:

So as always it comes down to choices. If congress were to say here is new money to rebuild Arecibo in addition to the other telescopes you want to build; scientists would jump up and down. There is really cool science Arecibo2 can do. But if congress were to repurpose other science money to rebuild Arecibo instead of the other telescopes we are currently designing and building, it would be a setback. On a science/$ basis a rebuilt Arecibo is not very competitive. This is really down to the cost of receivers and digitizers falling so much that arrays of equivalent cost have greater science range.

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...ibos-cables-snapped/?comments=1&post=39463457

 

[Killingbeans]

Completely missed this until today when I saw this video:

Very sad news

It was pictured in one of my favorite movies: Contact.

I tought of GoldenEye. Didn't think I'd ever see that part of the movie come true.

 

[phoenixdogfan]

Sad. I think it would be great if some tech billionaire would step up and make rebuilding it a pet project.

Martin

It's probably obsolete. It certainly has been an icon. "The Arrival" also had much of its action concentrated there as did an X-Files episode/movie, but something will more than replace it and hopefully prove the Fermi Paradox isn't an iron law of the universe.

 

[Ron Texas]

It's sad that something like this could have just rusted out.

 

[blueone]

I like the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0761236,-107.6226651,3a,75y,54.76h,97.02t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN4R8t-kdsBQbTi-hEMviy8nZysvcoY_RrZCvZR!2e10!3e11!6shttps://lh5.googleusercontent.com/p/AF1QipN4R8t-kdsBQbTi-hEMviy8nZysvcoY_RrZCvZR=w203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya276-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

In the VLA there’s a sign explaining about how lousy the VLA would actually be for SETI work. The sign mentions Contact and implies Sagan should have known better. ;-)

 

[RayDunzl]

In the VLA there’s a sign explaining about how lousy the VLA would actually be for SETI work. The sign mentions Contact and implies Sagan should have known better.

I hold little hope for SETI.

Distance

Time

If we hear a signal from Andromeda, it will only take about 5 million years between lines to have a conversation.

Unless they can break the rules, then we're probably toast.

"Nice planet you have there"

"Yeah. Uh-oh..."

 

[phoenixdogfan]

I hold little hope for SETI.

Distance

Time

If we hear a signal from Andromeda, it will only take about 5 million years between lines to have a conversation.

Unless they can break the rules, then we're probably toast.

"Nice planet you have there"

"Yeah. Uh-oh..."

Dark Forrest Theory!

 

[StefaanE]

That's actually the world's biggest inverted cone subwoofer. They are going to do more research into the elusive brown note. Their goal is to give the entire world the s#$ts.

ROTFLMAO.