Requiem for a Telescope
28 Oct 2022 20:14:32 UTC
Topic 228461
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Until its collapse last year, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico spent six decades tuned to the radio stations of the heavens. There is no plan to rebuild it, and astronomers are in mourning.
Seems to be a link to some
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Seems to be a link to some shady site with a paywall?
Running on an abacus, one bead at a time.
Aurum wrote: Requiem for a
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The problem is simply the costs to replace it with a better one, no one is stepping up to fund it and China is always saying they will share the data from their own larger telescope but I don't know if they actually have as of yet or not
KD4PBS wrote: Seems to be a
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The New York Times is your idea of a shady site?
They usually give anyone a few free articles a month and some libraries have 3-day free subscriptions available.
Aurum wrote: KD4PBS
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Here is a link to the free article. Please let me know if the link doesn't give you free access - this is the first time that I have gifted free access to a NYT article to a group of people.
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Thank you,
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Thank you, TIGERS_DAVE!
AURUM: Yes. I thought this was a well-known fact, or at the very least, an extremely well-supported opinion.
Running on an abacus, one bead at a time.
You are welcome, KD4PBS. I
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You are welcome, KD4PBS. I am glad to hear that the link worked as intended.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Tigers_Dave wrote: You are
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It worked for me too, thanks!!
a smaller telescope like this
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a smaller telescope like this would be nice if they could do it:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-hiding-161000438.html
Tigers_Dave wrote: < ...
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Thank you for that! Very interesting read. And sad and a little strange, seeing as how much data packets from Arecibo we're still munching on 2 years later.
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