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OT: Amazing videos of the Aricebo telescope collapse

LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,674
edited December 2020 in The Commons

Terrible blow to astronomy but an amazing moment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-55181448

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  • Kevin SandersonKevin Sanderson Posts: 1,643

    Wow! End of an era.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    You usually never get to see cables snap like that... stuff falls and that's it.
    Sad... and most likely nothing will replace that there in PR, but hopefully, at least for pulsar research, something will come along somewhere to fill the void... Aricebo was pretty good at certain research where it's sensitivity was important... cutting edge stuff, but over time I think new projects have taken up a lot of the jobs Aricebo used to do.

    It was an impressive bit of engineering.

    It would really suck if The Grand Galactic Council was phoning us right then to announce we'd been chosen to join sheerly because of our species amusingly stupid behavior and they decided to give humanity a special needs grant to help us teach rational thinking, and all we had to do was respond in the next few minutes... and they are like "Ungrateful bit_hes... nobody has ever hung up on us in 65 million years... not since we offered those dinosaurs a chance and see where that took them!"

    I'm sure it'll be fine.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,598
    satellite dish? nah it's obviously pretty damned heavy
  • Kevin SandersonKevin Sanderson Posts: 1,643

    The antenna array that was suspended above the dish in the ground and the array's supporting cables and structure. I forgot that it was in a James Bond film.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,674
    edited December 2020
    The cable footage was from a drone that just happened to be surveying the cables at the time. Here's a slow motion analysis of the footage.
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  • AllenArtAllenArt Posts: 7,172

    Thankfully, Sean Bean was nowhere nearby ;)

    Laurie

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