Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled

Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by xondono on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:06PM (#25152318)

I don’t get the flagging, it’s a very valid question.

I’m sure the people at PR would rather see the money invested on infrastructure with higher impact on their citizens life.

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by rovr138 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:20PM (#25152517)

Being from PR I have a lot of friends and follow a big community online.

In the past hour I've only been seeing people from the island lament this. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.

I think a lot of people understand that not spending the money on this doesn't mean that that money will appear somewhere else.

The rest, I'm pretty sure that if you tell them that there's different buckets where money comes from and that money simply won't shift into others, would quickly say repair/rebuild it.

There's a sense of pride with the radio telescope. I can only speak for what I've seen, but a lot of people visit on school field trips. We all know it.

This sucks.

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by Johnny555 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:12PM (#25153173)

If $100M was invested in building a new one, much of that money would stay in the PR economy in hiring local labor.So it's not a win-lose scenario -- winning more funding could be a net win for the locals too.

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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism... by xondono on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:45PM (#25190837)

Never said it had 0 impact, just that there’s likely infrastructure with higher impact

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