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 disintegration of the telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico began far before this cinematic end. It is tempting to bl...
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