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   Alain Fournier  writes:   
      
   > It is sad that the Arecibo telescope will soon be demolished. I understand   
   > that it is the right thing to do given the dangerous state in which it   
   > is. Still, it is sad to lose such an instrument.   
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   > Alain Fournier   
      
   Radio astronomers make for bad civil engineers appearently. It was just   
   a few short months ago that we were reading that new cables would be installed   
   in an attempt to repair the telescope. Now with an additional cable   
   break it has become too unstable to safely repair. But this is   
   deterioration over time. You can't tell me it was impossible to to spot   
   these issues well enough in advance to have not waited until it was too   
   late. So much for science in the public interest. Has it become the case   
   that this telescope has actually outlived its usefulness and no one was   
   willing to point out the emperor has no clothes? From what I can see, it   
   was already a wasting asset and must have been for years.   
      
   Dave   
      
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