One of the largest Radio Telescope (or listening devices) in the world (as seen in the movies GoldenEye and Contact) suffered a catastrophic collapse due to corrosion by some of the support cables. Yikes.
One of the largest Radio Telescope (or listening devices) in the world (as seen in the movies GoldenEye and Contact) suffered a catastrophic collapse due to corrosion by some of the support cables. Yikes.
Puerto Rican engineering.
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Isn't the dish, itself, embedded in the ground beneath the part that collapsed?
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I would say the maintenance crew didn't do a very good job of maintaining....
"Valar morghulis; valar dohaeris."
Commucrats are most efficient at converting sins and crimes to accidents or misunderstandings.-Oswald Bastable
Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless.
Freedom isn't free.
"Attitude is the paintbrush that colors our world." TV Series, Haven.
My Spirit Animal has rabies.
I'd rather be an American than a Democrat.
"If you can make a man afraid, you can control him" Netflix Series, The Irregulars
and thats how the bottom fell out of the aluminum market
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Basically, yes. The dish was immovable but not actually on the "ground" as they had to allow room for maintenance vehicles and people to get underneath the dish. The actual receiver, the part that fell, was described in some articles as weighing 900 TONS !!Originally Posted by alismith
The facility was also 57 years old, has survived multiple hurricanes, earthquakes, constant humidity, salt air, etc.
There was an article 3-4 days ago that the ChiComs now have a similar facility but the dish is about 3,000 feet in diameter (0.91 km).
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That sucks.
Actually it was well made. They completely expected the collapse due to corrosion. This structure was nearly 60 years old, almost ten years PAST it's service life and collapse was expected if they didn't replace the entire upper structure which would have cost $334 Million . The surprise was that it happened in 2020. The experts expected the collapse in a few years.
They're rebuilding it. The tech was old. They're going to use NEW tech in the new dish.
Another senseless covid death, does Trump have no shame?
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