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This is dumb that it's even an issue. But in lieu of an administration change, could they "rent" them out? Like rich institutions could either pay for what they

This is dumb that it's even an issue. But in lieu of an administration change, could they "rent" them out? Like rich institutions could either pay for what they were already planning to do or they could request a different mission/objective.

somenameforme 1y ago
There's far less interest in this than you'd expect. The Arecibo Telescope [1] was as famous as they come and was the largest single aperture telescope (> 300m) until 2016 when China surpassed it with FAST, which is just real life having some artistic foreshadowing. Opened in 1963, it was iconic and show up in various major movies like James Bond Goldeneye, Species, and contact. Yet it was nonetheless left to rot for a lack of interest in paying the low millions of dollars it'd cost to maintain it, all the while we spend trillions of dollars on wars half-way around the world. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope
- Sammi 1y ago
  Wow there are actual videos of the collapse at the end of the history section.
  - perihelions 1y ago
    Here's the engineering report, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051368 ("Failure analysis of the Arecibo 305 meter telescope collapse (nationalacademies.org)", 114 comments)
- dylan604 1y ago
  Aricebo did not produce the same kind of imagination inspiring images that Hubble or JWST do. Aricebo lost out on it was too nerdy in its science where the visible spectrum platforms can also reach a more artsy demographic. Compare Arecibo: https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/historic-space-images-arecibo-observatory/ https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/historic-space-ima... To JWST/Hubble: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Hubble+and+JWST+images&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Hubble+and+JWST+images&ia=ima...

somenameforme 1y ago

There's far less interest in this than you'd expect. The Arecibo Telescope [1] was as famous as they come and was the largest single aperture telescope (> 300m) until 2016 when China surpassed it with FAST, which is just real life having some artistic foreshadowing. Opened in 1963, it was iconic and show up in various major movies like James Bond Goldeneye, Species, and contact. Yet it was nonetheless left to rot for a lack of interest in paying the low millions of dollars it'd cost to maintain it, all the while we spend trillions of dollars on wars half-way around the world. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope

Sammi 1y ago
Wow there are actual videos of the collapse at the end of the history section.
- perihelions 1y ago
  Here's the engineering report, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051368 ("Failure analysis of the Arecibo 305 meter telescope collapse (nationalacademies.org)", 114 comments)
dylan604 1y ago
Aricebo did not produce the same kind of imagination inspiring images that Hubble or JWST do. Aricebo lost out on it was too nerdy in its science where the visible spectrum platforms can also reach a more artsy demographic. Compare Arecibo: https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/historic-space-images-arecibo-observatory/ https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/historic-space-ima... To JWST/Hubble: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Hubble+and+JWST+images&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Hubble+and+JWST+images&ia=ima...