Science
With the death of Arecibo, an era ends for radio astronomy – The Economist
A snapped cable has irreparably damaged the dish
ARECIBO OBSERVATORY was conceived in an era of space-age monumentalism, an imposition of geometry onto geology as striking in its simplicity and scale as the greatest brutalist architecture. When the James Bond franchise, in its pomp a showcase for iconic 1960s design, eventually got around to using the 306-metre dish as a location in the 1990s, the only surprise was that it had taken so long.
The observatory was not new to spycraft. It was created as a tool for using radar to study the ionosphere,…
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