Comments on: Final close-out of all science research at Arecibo https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/final-close-out-of-all-science-research-at-arecibo/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jason Lewis https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/final-close-out-of-all-science-research-at-arecibo/#comment-1419152 Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:30:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96655#comment-1419152 Putting a radio telescope in space will have a different set of limitation compared to a scope on the ground. There are tradeoffs and it’s not a simple matter of one being obsolete. Data rates, storage, and real-time computational power in space will be severely limited compared so what can be done on the ground. The dish itself is fairly low tech and the cost for a new one is peanuts compared a typical space-based project. JWST was $10 billion. If radio astronomy is important, then both space and ground-based approaches make sense. Space doesn’t have the spectral limitations.

Building an educational facility out there would be a waste of money. If they wanted one in Puerto Rico, then it would make much more sense to place it in or near a city.

]]> By: J Fincannon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/final-close-out-of-all-science-research-at-arecibo/#comment-1419092 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:49:48 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96655#comment-1419092 I look forward to videos of extreme athletes going there and doing skate boarding or mountain biking or even cross-country like running on the old derelict structure. Maybe they already have. This kind of thing Red Bull sponsors.

]]> By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/final-close-out-of-all-science-research-at-arecibo/#comment-1419073 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 18:12:06 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96655#comment-1419073 Jason Lewis, Not frustrating at all, but smart. It’s obsolete. The future for observatories is in space, not on the ground. Better to invest in that than rebuild a monument to the past.

MDN, sell it to a scrapper and recycle it

]]> By: Jason Lewis https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/final-close-out-of-all-science-research-at-arecibo/#comment-1419068 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:08:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96655#comment-1419068 So frustrating. How would a complete repair and upgrade cost compare to a single SLS launch? I visited the site several years ago and it would be a stupid place to have an educational facility. It’s remote and inconvenient even if you live on the island.

]]> By: MDN https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/final-close-out-of-all-science-research-at-arecibo/#comment-1419066 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:01:51 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96655#comment-1419066 Are they going to remove all the junk left over after the collapse, or are they just going to leave it a heaping pile to decay away slowly in the decades ahead like a Puerto Rican Titanic?

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