The Puerto Rican National Science Foundation has released a video of the collapse of the platform supporting the radiotolescope in Arecibo. Known, among others, from the James Bond movie, the radio telescope collapsed on Tuesday. The structure was one of the largest of its kind in the world.
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The collapse of the 305-meter telescope was not unexpected. Already in November, it was decided to terminate its work due to the breakage of the cable – the second in three months – supporting the platform with the telescope’s devices. It was planned to be demolished.
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According to the Puerto Rican National Science Foundation, The cause of the collapse of the 900-ton platform above the telescope’s canopy was the collapse of three towers supporting the structure. No person was hurt in the accident, but apart from the telescope itself, the building of the observatory’s educational center was damaged.
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The moment of the collapse of the platform supporting the radio telescopeReuters
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In operation for 57 years, the radio telescope was the largest such instrument in the world until 2016, when the 500-meter FAST telescope was completed in China. The observatory survived, among others earthquakes and many hurricanes.
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A 305-meter telescope collapsed in Puerto RicoReuters
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The telescope has appeared in several films, including: “Kontakt” in 1997, “Genre” in 1995, and in one of the films in the James Bond series (“GoldenEye” in 1995, where after an explosion the structure crushed the main goldsmith) , as well as in an episode of the series “From the X-Files”.
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Arecibo Observatory in Puerto RicoReuters
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photo-source">Main photo source: Reuters
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