[Rockhounds] Arecibo collapse

[Richard Hill]

They had cameras running when it collapsed including one drone:

https://players.brightcove.net/679256133001/EkLWnGuil_default/index.html?videoId=6213883083001&fbclid=IwAR3kDbEa32eIdTJe7jy2L_am2g7_CrQYGOqR1vc-gHTgqEqIU0DP76DYWZU

-Rik


On 2020-12-03 3:32 PM, Doug Bank wrote:
> Greenbank does not need to withstand hurricane winds... I question whether anything will replace Arecibo. I visited there in 2012. It was really cool, and it is sad that it is gone.
>
>> On Dec 3, 2020, at 2:46 PM, J. R. Hodel <jr50wv at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Amazing video. Lucky no one was killed, that receiver was 900 tons... 18,000 lbs.
>> A tragic loss, it was capable of deep space radar to detect incoming objects, that capability is lost now. Plus the pure science, Nobel prize level science.
>> There was a older radio-telescope with a steerable dish at Greenbank that collapsed, fortunately funding was available to build a new one. The older one that collapsed lasted many years past it's intended lifespan. The new one is considerably advanced in ability, built of material intended to last much longer.
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