NSF Shutting Down Arecibo Observatory Update: Now Collapsed

[IronWing]

So, skate park?

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I wonder if the latest tech out there at the moment renders Arecibos' basic design parameters obsolete. If not, I hope another takes its place with all of the latest tech built in.

Won't happen for a long time. If we can't bother to spend a few million to keep an existing system maintained so it won't literally collapse on itself, we're not going to spend billions on a new one.

 

[Pohemi]

Only if they get another hundred million dollar tax break from Wisconsin tax payers first my friend.

Too late. Little shithead Scotty Walker is gone, no more GOP shill in the gov seat to offer corps 100s of millions in tax breaks that will wipe the budget surplus out...

Foxxconn can get fucked, just like Scott Walker's chinless punk ass.

Won't happen for a long time. If we can't bother to spend a few million to keep an existing system maintained so it won't literally collapse on itself, we're not going to spend billions on a new one.

Not while we are clamoring to build more $35b fighter jets.

 

[hal2kilo]

Can't we get similar results with radio telescope arrays. Essentially a giant synthetic aperture dish. Probably can't get the deep gain though. With all of the bands being sold for wireless communication, it probably makes sense just go off planet with a telescope anyway.

 

[K1052]

Jesus

https://twitter.com/x/status/1333832068904599553

 

[Zorba]

Notice how the towers lost their tops.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1333747356605571072