Re:Failure Analysis of the Arecibo 305 Meter Telescope Collapse
by Iolaum on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @12:55PM
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I would be curious if there are any accounts/reports of people working there - especially engineers - that could verify the claims of no alarm being raised when the first structural failures started showing up. It is often the case that people on the ground report such things but when "reports" are written for the higher ups, facts get "massaged" according to expectations.
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Re:Failure Analysis of the Arecibo 305 Meter Telescope Collapse
by 77pt77 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @01:12PM
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Bearers of bad news get shot.
Everyone working in large corporations knows this.
Re:Failure Analysis of the Arecibo 305 Meter Telescope Collapse
by lazystar on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @04:04PM
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being a bearer of bad news is a sign that you are not disagreeing and committing.
Re:Failure Analysis of the Arecibo 305 Meter Telescope Collapse
by photon_rancher on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:28AM
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I was on the suspended section about a year before collapse - everyone could tell it was about to fail. Visible stress in rusty beams, old cables, and failing concrete. I think it just came down to underfunding at the end of the day - there was no money available to ask for even if the alarms were louder.
And for most applications it was obsoleted by the larger new telescope in china, so there was no large push to turn that ship around from the wider scientific community.