The radio telescope at Arecibo was once the largest single-aperture telescopes in the world, at 305m/1000ft across. During its lifetime it was surpassed by the 500m aperture spherical telescope (FAST) in Guizhou, China, which is still in use. Interferometry makes “virtual” large-aperture radio telescopes possible by combining inputs from separate radio telescopes. Such as the Very Large Array (US), VLTI, and ALMA, and the planned Square Kilometre Array.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_telescope https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/
I used to be close to an astrophysicist. This is a huge loss.
first rule of austerity politics: why spend money to have something, when you can choose not to spend the money and then not have the thing.
In popular culture
The Arecibo Observatory appeared in many novels, series and films, such as in the X-Files of Season 2 Episode 1 “Little Green Men”, in James Bond GoldenEye and Carl Sagan’s novel and related movie Contact.
“The US decides not to rebuild Puerto Rico” is a better way of saying how they treat their Caribbean colony
Capitalism drives innovation.
(Seriously I know it’s considered bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences but this fills me with a cold rage. There is no other dish like this on the planet.)
I know it’s considered bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences
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bougie to care about “traditional” arts and sciences but this fills me with a cold rage
dirtbag leftism was a mistake
