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Arecibo (radio telescope) is lost
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<blockquote data-quote="L8APEX" data-source="post: 16534417" data-attributes="member: 51947"><p>You're right James, it wasn't cutting edge or very relevant as most of the groundbreaking things that only she could be used for were already done by now, but she was still a classic, and she taught us so much in those 57 years ( I'm a sentimental fool, wish I could have seen it). I do not think we have anything on the planet that is able to send as strong of an active radar signal as Arecibo, IIRC it was near 1mw, and the next best site would probably be Goldstone which I think is only 500 kw, and has 1/10th the receiving area so ~1/20th as powerful before you figure the square inverse law (to the power of 4 for sending and receiving radio signals). She may not have been the most important tool in the toolbox now, but she still had some niches where she shined.</p><p></p><p>As for VLBII remember them making more a fuss about a younger lady that worked on some of the software algorithm for VLBI when they captured an image of a supermassive black hole in another galaxy using the process than the image itself. Then that was followed by some controversy saying that her part was much less than what was advertised, but as I tried to pay more attention to the science than the politics, the reporters were more interested in the drama. The idea of using many receivers across the surface of the planet giving you pieces a single larger picture seems like a great idea, as you said you essentially get a planet sized aperture. As more sites come online and distributed computing gets more powerful and efficient I expect it to become a very popular tool.</p><p></p><p>Some new info from today is interesting is there was an earthquake in the Dominican republic that correlated with the time of the collapse. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1675576[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Here's some drone footage of what's left.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]GRHXCWr7xt0[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="L8APEX, post: 16534417, member: 51947"] You're right James, it wasn't cutting edge or very relevant as most of the groundbreaking things that only she could be used for were already done by now, but she was still a classic, and she taught us so much in those 57 years ( I'm a sentimental fool, wish I could have seen it). I do not think we have anything on the planet that is able to send as strong of an active radar signal as Arecibo, IIRC it was near 1mw, and the next best site would probably be Goldstone which I think is only 500 kw, and has 1/10th the receiving area so ~1/20th as powerful before you figure the square inverse law (to the power of 4 for sending and receiving radio signals). She may not have been the most important tool in the toolbox now, but she still had some niches where she shined. As for VLBII remember them making more a fuss about a younger lady that worked on some of the software algorithm for VLBI when they captured an image of a supermassive black hole in another galaxy using the process than the image itself. Then that was followed by some controversy saying that her part was much less than what was advertised, but as I tried to pay more attention to the science than the politics, the reporters were more interested in the drama. The idea of using many receivers across the surface of the planet giving you pieces a single larger picture seems like a great idea, as you said you essentially get a planet sized aperture. As more sites come online and distributed computing gets more powerful and efficient I expect it to become a very popular tool. Some new info from today is interesting is there was an earthquake in the Dominican republic that correlated with the time of the collapse. [ATTACH=full]1675576[/ATTACH] Here's some drone footage of what's left. [MEDIA=youtube]GRHXCWr7xt0[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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