Drone Footage of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

Post by sm4rk0 » Fri, Dec 04, 2020, 1:25 AM UTC

usrusr wrote: post #77

yborg wrote: post #55

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And they must have known it was imminent, it seems unlikely they had a drone over it 24/7 given the available hover time.

For a use case like this, I'd imagine that tethered multicopters could be a very nice fit. If you can just plug the base station into a power outlet, suddenly 24/7 doesn't seem that crazy. PS: Apparently I'm not alone with this idea, search engine comes up with hits. https://elistair.com/ even have a tether kit you can plug into some DJI models (and others) instead of the conventional battery pack. Out of Lyon, Franc…

Post by blunte » Fri, Dec 04, 2020, 1:55 AM UTC

tdumitrescu wrote: post #136

jessriedel wrote: post #128

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Can anyone please characterize that accent/cadence to me?!? It reminds me very strongly of an accent I've been hearing on tech support telephone call frequently in the past 5 years but never recalled hearing before that. I have a pet theory that it's actually from a new technique for more rapidly teaching intelligible English pronunciation to folks learning it as a second language. But maybe it's just an accent from…

Nothing new, engineered, or special about it, that's a bog-standard Dutch accent.

Post by rhizome » Fri, Dec 04, 2020, 2:26 AM UTC

admiralspoo wrote: post #185

outworlder wrote: post #106

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We could build an entirely new one from scratch if we decided to manufacture one less F-35.

Well, the F-35 is actually a useful instrument which maintains US hegemony. A better comparison would be the movie Cats, which had a budget of 95 million, and serves no purpose to society.

Post by hughw » Fri, Dec 04, 2020, 3:18 AM UTC

Post by Gibbon1 » Fri, Dec 04, 2020, 3:36 AM UTC

bronson wrote: post #161

Gibbon1 wrote: post #129

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The thing with Arecibo it's not the design you want in in a microwave observatory at all. Same as the Space Shuttle which spent decades siphoning off a good chunk of of the budget for space stuff. It was white elephant.

Did anybody tell FAST?