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Sympthsical

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23. I mean, that isn't at all what happened

Wed Nov 16, 2022, 08:19 AM

Nov 2022

They couldn't repair the telescope. The thing literally collapsed.

The foundation that runs the site decided they weren't going to build another telescope there - and they would have to build a whole new one. The old one was completely destroyed. Instead, they're going to use the site for other STEM-related things.

However, we have tons of telescopes that do similar work. Yes, Arecibo was amazing and led to a lot of discoveries over the years, and it's pretty tragic it came to the end it did. However, if you look at the number of planned projects, scientists are looking to the future just fine.

Does this look like scientists giving up?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proposed_space_observatories

Also, I missed the "We're all going to die anyway!" discussion scientists have apparently had. Did NASA live stream that one?

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