{"id":11115,"date":"2020-12-01T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11115"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T21:55:55","slug":"arecibo-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/01\/arecibo-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Arecibo Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/arecibo-observatory-radio-telescope-puerto-rico-collapses-cable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from CBS News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Iconic Arecibo\u00a0Observatory radio telescope collapses after cable broke<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Analyzing Video Footage Of Collapse of Massive Arecibo Telescope\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/59WQIRvezzI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has long played a key role in astronomical discoveries collapsed on Tuesday, officials said. The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/arecibo-observatory-puerto-rico-demolition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arecibo Observatory<\/a>, made famous as the backdrop for a pivotal scene in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/new-james-bond-film-no-time-to-die-release-postponed-november-coronavirus-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Bond<\/a>\u00a0film &#8220;GoldenEye&#8221; and other Hollywood hits, had been shuttered since August after an auxiliary cable snapped and caused a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/arecibo-observatory-james-bond-film-goldeneye-telescope-mysteriously-broken-puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\">100-foot gash<\/a>\u00a0on the reflector dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then a main cable broke in early November, leading the National Science Foundation to declare just weeks later that it planned to close the radio telescope because the damage was too great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many scientists and Puerto Ricans mourned the news, with some tearing up during interviews. Deborah Martorell, a meteorologist in Puerto Rico, tweeted early Tuesday: &#8220;Friends, it is with deep regret to inform you that the Arecibo Observatory platform has just collapsed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/arecibo-observatory-radio-telescope-puerto-rico-collapses-cable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at CBS News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS News Iconic Arecibo\u00a0Observatory radio telescope collapses after cable broke A huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has long played a key role in astronomical discoveries collapsed on Tuesday, officials said. The\u00a0Arecibo Observatory, made famous as the backdrop for a pivotal scene in the\u00a0James Bond\u00a0film &#8220;GoldenEye&#8221; and other Hollywood hits, had been shuttered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}