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Some quick googling reveals that it cost 9.3 million in 1963, so inflation adjusted that would be about 100 million today. Not completely out of the realm of cr

by WJW 4y ago

Some quick googling reveals that it cost 9.3 million in 1963, so inflation adjusted that would be about 100 million today. Not completely out of the realm of crowdfunding, but it would probably quicker to send a tweet to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and offer them to name it the "Jeff Bezos Arecibo Telescope" or somesuch if they fund the reconstruction by themselves.

pavlov 4y ago
Show Elon the 1974 Arecibo message and explain that it’s like an interstellar tweet, and for a mere $100 million he’ll be able to send those himself. Honestly sounds like a bargain compared to his recent tweet spending habits.
- closewith 4y ago
  > Show Elon the 1974 Arecibo message and explain that it’s like an interstellar tweet, and for a mere $100 million he’ll be able to send those himself. Or just show him Goldeneye. I feel he'd be more likely to do it for the meme.
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bpodgursky 4y ago
The cost disease for infrastructure has expanded dramatically faster than inflation and I really doubt you could do this for less than $2B today. Unless you get a magic "no environmental review" exception (you won't).
- lupire 4y ago
  PR doesn't have the powerful NIMBY culture that California does. Folks there are less wealthy and more practical about the value of adding local economic investment.
  - elzbardico 4y ago
    A lot of construction costs are also related to the insurance, specially against liabilities, financial costs and other, non-enviromental costs. Even if you're building a more amicable jurisdiction, those costs cascade down from your upstream supply chain.
  - bpodgursky 4y ago
    True overall, but it still only takes one Sierra Club to gum it up in court for years. It's not like the neighborhood can vote to override federal courts.
InCityDreams 4y ago
Chinese tax breaks, and no piss-breaks for the workers could help pay, too.
greenbit 4y ago
Maybe with an offer to be top of the list of who gets notified when the aliens are first detected ..
dotnet00 4y ago
I think that more than the reconstruction there probably isn't any will to pay for operations or maintenance anymore (after all, this probably wouldn't have happened in the first place if maintenance was better). So even if any billionaires decided to foot the bill, the issue would remain that a long term commitment to supporting the facility is also needed, and while short term large expenditures are tolerable to most rich companies and individuals, the long term commitment with no clear end or outcome is probably the limiter.

by WJW 4y ago

pavlov 4y ago

Show Elon the 1974 Arecibo message and explain that it’s like an interstellar tweet, and for a mere $100 million he’ll be able to send those himself. Honestly sounds like a bargain compared to his recent tweet spending habits.

closewith 4y ago
> Show Elon the 1974 Arecibo message and explain that it’s like an interstellar tweet, and for a mere $100 million he’ll be able to send those himself. Or just show him Goldeneye. I feel he'd be more likely to do it for the meme.
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bpodgursky 4y ago

The cost disease for infrastructure has expanded dramatically faster than inflation and I really doubt you could do this for less than $2B today. Unless you get a magic "no environmental review" exception (you won't).

lupire 4y ago
PR doesn't have the powerful NIMBY culture that California does. Folks there are less wealthy and more practical about the value of adding local economic investment.
- elzbardico 4y ago
  A lot of construction costs are also related to the insurance, specially against liabilities, financial costs and other, non-enviromental costs. Even if you're building a more amicable jurisdiction, those costs cascade down from your upstream supply chain.
- bpodgursky 4y ago
  True overall, but it still only takes one Sierra Club to gum it up in court for years. It's not like the neighborhood can vote to override federal courts.

InCityDreams 4y ago

Chinese tax breaks, and no piss-breaks for the workers could help pay, too.

greenbit 4y ago

Maybe with an offer to be top of the list of who gets notified when the aliens are first detected ..

dotnet00 4y ago

I think that more than the reconstruction there probably isn't any will to pay for operations or maintenance anymore (after all, this probably wouldn't have happened in the first place if maintenance was better). So even if any billionaires decided to foot the bill, the issue would remain that a long term commitment to supporting the facility is also needed, and while short term large expenditures are tolerable to most rich companies and individuals, the long term commitment with no clear end or outcome is probably the limiter.