Posted on 08/12/2020 2:26:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
At Arecibo, scientists conduct all sorts of work, from atmospheric and planetary science through to radio and radar astronomy and even searches for extraterrestrial intelligence, also known as SETI.
The purpose of these observations are to determine the ways in which red dwarf stars, like Barnard’s Star, affect the habitability of their planets. Méndez was also planning to embark on a SETI project to detect extraterrestrial technosignatures (i.e. evidence of alien technology), which would have leveraged both past and future observations at Arecibo. All this now appears to be on hold.
Méndez’s observations aren’t time critical, but others might be, including scans for potentially dangerous nearby asteroids.
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Don’t call us....we’ll call you
the little green guys value their privacy
Whatever they want - the answer is no.
Reminds me of a joke on visiting an abbey high on a cliff. The only way to get in was by a gondola lifted vertically up to the entrance. A visitor once asked a monk after being hoisted up to the entrance: “how often do you change the ropes on the gondola?” The monk replied: “when they break.”
When a colony is established on the far side of the moon,they can build a super sized radio telescope dish in a large crater.
Looks like serious damage. Another setback for Puerto Rico.
Maybe they should use some of the budget to actually inspect the cables every once in a while.
Probably too busy keeping up on chemtrails for that.
Well that setis it.
from the article
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is currently out of commission after a thick support cable fell onto the dish, creating a large gash. It’s yet another setback for the beloved science facility, which hasn’t fully recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Maria.
At around 2:45 a.m. local time on Monday August 10, a three-inch thick auxiliary cable fell onto the observatory’s main reflector dish, creating a 100-foot-long scar, reports UCF Today. The cable is used to support a metal platform above the observatory. All scientific work done at the Arecibo facility is on pause, pending repairs. The cause of the cable failure is not yet known, nor is cost or time required for the fixes.
Around a half-dozen panels on the Gregorian Dome were also damaged when the cable fell, as was a platform used to access the dome. The Gregorian Dome, which rests some 500 feet (152 meters) above the surface of the dish, houses a multi-beam receiver capable of scanning multiple points in the sky simultaneously.
I think we should be looking for intelligent life on Earth. One would think that a maintenance person would have notice the bad cable ... had she simply done her job and inspected the facility.
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