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The Arecibo telescope suffered a fatal collapse, tearing it apart

[ad_1] The famous Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico, which once starred in a James Bond film, collapsed on Tuesday when its 900-tonne receiving platform plummeted 140 meters onto the radio dish below. Engineers had recently warned of the massive facility’s decayed condition, and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) …

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