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In reply to the discussion: Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope collapses; many mourning [View all]Submariner
(12,503 posts)9. What an awful educational loss for children of PR
Almost every weekday school buses filled with kids from all over the island would visit, and get to use the real-time planetarium displays in the adjacent museum building.
Earlier this year SETI@Home discontinued signal analyses, much of the data came from the huge Arecibo dish reflections. Sad ending because the scientific community did not come to the rescue.
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So true. If god intended Republicans to fly, there wouldn't be any Republicans.
jaxexpat
Dec 2020
#6
: ( all around! The kids, local workers, scientists, human knowledge. I...
electric_blue68
Dec 2020
#38
OMG. This is heartbreaking, for me because it really says who we are as
Kashkakat v.2.0
Dec 2020
#18
The telescope was essentially the hero of James Gunn's novel, *The Listeners*...
First Speaker
Dec 2020
#25
Just another in a long line of degradations of American scientific prowess...
Moostache
Dec 2020
#28
Arecibo was our best tool for tracking near-Earth asteroids... which we need to do.
paulkienitz
Dec 2020
#30
Time to build a better one... on the dark side of the moon. Space Force! Calling Moon Base Alpha
Baclava
Dec 2020
#31
This thing was awe inspiring. I am very glad that I got to see it in its hay day.
littlemissmartypants
Dec 2020
#35