Was this place used in Golden eye? It looks familiar.
yes
Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse
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#62Was this place used in Golden eye? It looks familiar.
Yes. Also in Contact. And you could blow it up in Battlefield 4.
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#63So they had a drone focused right on the cable that snapped? I got the impression from the early articles that it collapsed during the night and wasn't witnessed.
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#64Was this place used in Golden eye? It looks familiar.
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#65Was this place used in Golden eye? It looks familiar.
Yes. It's from Contact[0] as well. Great movie.
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#66So they had a drone focused right on the cable that snapped? I got the impression from the early articles that it collapsed during the night and wasn't witnessed.
The collapse happened around 7:55AM local time, about an hour after sunrise. It happened "overnight" (before dawn) as far as most people in the continental US were concerned.
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#67So they had a drone focused right on the cable that snapped? I got the impression from the early articles that it collapsed during the night and wasn't witnessed.
I mean, if I was in charge of monitoring the thing, I feel like I'd have a cheap webcam pointed at it at minimum.
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#68Sad event. Cool footage.
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#69So now, humans are going to be the intergalactic assholes of the universe who go and change their phone number without leaving a forwarding number. When our message sent from Arecibo is finally received, their response will go to a disconnected number. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BVbyCZXc5s
"now" is doing a lot of work here... If I'm not mistaken, we have about a millennium or a hundred make arrangements.
Overall it's quite a bright time for (radio) astronomy. The number of telescopes and sensing ability only increases with time. Just this year alone, a large clone of Arecibo, FAST, just became fully operational. Other telescopes like the SKA are still in construction. In the future decades, we'll likely build even more and even larger telescopes.
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#70Is the loss of Arecibo a big blow to the scientific community? I was of the impression that Arecibo was long past it's heyday and in general that large arrays of smaller receivers were now considered superior.
Correct, smaller arrays are superior, cheaper and less susceptible to single-point failure modes.