From: sylvia@email.invalid   
      
   On 21-Nov-20 11:14 am, David Spain wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> 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   
   >   
      
   What makes you think the radio astronomers were involved in the civil   
   engineering assessments?   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
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