This was one of those places I always thought would be cool to visit

Edit: Finally got the link to post

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/n...cibo-radio-telescope

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Originally posted by PakRatJR:
This was one of those places I always thought would be cool to visit

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I drove by it in the mid-1970s but did not have time to visit it.

flashguy

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Originally posted by OKCGene:

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Originally posted by PakRatJR:
This was one of those places I always thought would be cool to visit

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???? Odd....I did add it. I will try again...

Finally got the link to work. I'm posting from my phone and it wasn't letting the link post for some reason

Went there about 10 years ago. Pretty impressive to see in person and pretty cool to be at the spot of so many movies as well.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I drove by it in the mid-1970s but did not have time to visit it.

flashguy

Drove by in 1995. The feed point unit was the size of a house.

Always wanted to take a visit....wasn't this observatory used during a Bond movie? It looks familiar.

That sucks. It was in the Bond movie "Goldeneye".

Apparently it was damaged in August when a support cable came loose, then another one broke in November. Further inspections said there were other issues with the remaining cables.

This is from the first failure:


Link with more details: (Full disclosure, link goes to "CNN World")

Wow that's a big hole I am seriously jealous of you all that got to see it in person.

More news...... more cables gave out and the receiver is no longer suspended.... it crashed.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/...uerto-rico-telescope

Mid / late 1960s I based my airplane at Isla Grande airport, just a bit east of there.

I was curious, wanted to fly over it and look at it. I telephoned them to ask whether such a flight would cause a problem for them. They said no problem for them, but they advised me to turn my radio receivers off so that their emissions would not fry my radios.

I had a bunch of photos, looking down at the dish, but fifty years later they are long lost.

Earthquake in the DR may have contributed per Scott. I'm sure there will more info coming forward.
https://youtu.be/vchDbyIRP44

I was going to put in an offer to buy it and move it here to AZ

oh well

Is that a monolith I see way back there????

Damnit Bond... Do you have any idea how expensive that telescope was?

A pic from Twitter

That thing would have been perfect to send the Bonhomme Richard back in time and alter history. The fire and cover story were believable, right?