For 57 years, the Arecibo Observatory’s 1,000-foot dish sat sunk into a Puerto Rican valley listening to the sky, and in December 2020, after cables holding its 900-ton instrument platform snapped one by one, the entire structure gave way and crashed straight t - Space Daily
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The collapse of an iconic radio telescope offered a rare glimpse into how scientific infrastructure fails, and what we lose when it does.
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