Who cares it was a national site for tourism for PR and its ****ing destroyed smh. That place was on my Bucket list. I doubt it will ever be repaired. PR is a poor ass place. Doesn't appear that the Government has any plans to fix it.
Hopefully some billionaire investor who wants to see ET will donate some money to repair it.
Hopefully some billionaire investor who wants to see ET will donate some money to repair it.
The loss of this facility is not that big a deal. It had many drawbacks, least of all it could only look where Earth was facing, it could not be steered. There's a new thing now, in radio astronomy called "Very Long Baseline Interferometry," which adds signals from telescopes all across the planet, allowing a virtual dish size equal to the diameter of the entire planet. That is just getting into the mainstream, and it's going to be huge.
Arrecibo was an important tool of its day, but time and ingenuity have passed it up, about 15 years ago.
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