Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism...
by smnrchrds on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:23PM
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Wikipedia itself raises more than $120 million per year. I don't think a telescope could attract as much in donations as Wikipedia, but it is interesting to see how high could donations possibly go.
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Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism...
by adventured on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:16PM
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The only reason Wikipedia can do that is because it's at the top of 50% of all Google search results. Constant epic scale exposure that Wikipedia has been able to use to push for donations (and further to build up a routine of it, an understanding of how Wikipedia operates, to millions of people). Realistically Arecibo has nothing like that to leverage. Donating to Wikipedia is a value to action instant feedback process: you land on a nice and helpful Wikipedia page, you derive value, you give some value back; again, Arecibo can't offer that kind of in the moment, click of a mouse, value-donation gratification to large numbers of donors. Arecibo's donor pool is mostly the Paul Allens of the world.
Re:Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dism...
by jessaustin on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:11AM
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TLAs have lots of money.