<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">That's a big loss. Thankfully at least we can still see the telescope it its full glory in Balint Seeber's "Arecibo Uncut", filmed when he was working on the ISEE-3 reboot project <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPmwwVknVIiUlPbkfBUY1ebP_8hA_4q8j">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPmwwVknVIiUlPbkfBUY1ebP_8hA_4q8j</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Jacek</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">kw4ep</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 2:01 PM Rob Seastrom <<a href="mailto:rs@seastrom.com">rs@seastrom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div>Looks like the remaining cables failed last night or this morning.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/arecibo-radio-telescopes-massive-instrument-platform-has-collapsed/" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/12/arecibo-radio-telescopes-massive-instrument-platform-has-collapsed/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Photos:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/arecibo-telescope-collapses-ending-57-year-run" target="_blank">https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/arecibo-telescope-collapses-ending-57-year-run</a></div><div><br></div><div>-r</div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 20, 2020, at 7:20 PM, Terry N4TLF <<a href="mailto:n4tlf@wb4jfi.com" target="_blank">n4tlf@wb4jfi.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Yes, I saw this yesterday.  Another great scientific loss.  There is a larger one in China..... but it's in China.<br>Terry, N4TLF<br><br>-----Original Message----- From: Rob Seastrom<br>Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 6:44 PM<br>To: Tacos<br>Subject: looks like Arecibo is down for the count<br><br><br>Somehow I missed that a second cable had snapped earlier this month, following up on the hurricane damage and first snapped cable in August.<br><br><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/legendary-arecibo-telescope-will-close-forever-and-scientists-are-reeling/" target="_blank">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/legendary-arecibo-telescope-will-close-forever-and-scientists-are-reeling/</a><br><br>-r<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tacos mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tacos@amrad.org" target="_blank">Tacos@amrad.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos" target="_blank">https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos</a> <br>_______________________________________________<br>Tacos mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tacos@amrad.org" target="_blank">Tacos@amrad.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos" target="_blank">https://lists.amrad.org/mailman/listinfo/tacos</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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