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Stuff breaks. Keeping it functional for a long time is impressive. Arecibo failed to do so.

• lnauta 2y ago
  Indeed, it has been decommissioned for some 20 odd years now. But it's kept up and running by volunteers and became a national monument.
  • dylan604 2y ago
    What's been decommissioned for 20 years now? I'm not really sure where you get your information from, but it's clearly not correct. Decommissioned Announced November 19, 2020 Collapsed December 1, 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope
    • cge 2y ago
      They were referring to Dwingeloo [1] in the Netherlands, the telescope used in this article, not Arecibo. It stopped officially operating as a radio telescope in 2000, and has since been used for a variety of astronomy and amateur radio projects. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory