Arecibo and the Global Divide Around Funding Science Infrastructure
Arecibo and the Global Divide Around Funding Science Infrastructure 13/12/2020 A view of the Arecibo Telescope in July 2010. Photo: amelungc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. A mere two weeks after the National Science Foundation declared it would close the Arecibo single-dish radio telescope – once the largest in the world – the observatory took a dramatic dying breath and collapsed on December 1, 2020. While drone footage captured the moment in excruciating detail, in truth, the disintegratio...
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