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A comment on Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020).

Re:Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon ... by emilecantin on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:45PM (#28541372)
This looks cool, but...

We couldn't even maintain Arecibo enough to prevent its collapse, and it was here on earth. What's going to happen to a telescope like this?

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Re:Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon ... by rhcom2 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @12:51PM (#28541448)
It won't have hurricanes and earthquakes to deal with on the Moon at least.
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Re:Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon ... by monkeyshelli on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @02:06PM (#28542337)
Moon has ”moonquakes”

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/1...

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Re:Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon ... by theandrewbailey on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:02PM (#28541582)
Neither will it need to deal with things growing on it, or oxygen.
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Re:Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon ... by adventured on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:47PM (#28542143)
Arecibo lasted for half a century.

It would be more than acceptable if we built a telescope on the Moon and it lasted half a century before we moved on to replacing it and building the next interesting thing.

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