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  • Earthquake Damage Has This Giant Telescope Hanging By A Thread

    Earthquake Damage Has This Giant Telescope Hanging By A Thread

    Gizmodo International

    Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, should look familiar to anyone who watched GoldenEye or Contact a lot as a kid. But an earthquake near the observatory did some serious damage last month, nearly snapping one of the cables supporting the reflector platform hovering 140m in the air. Talk about a big oops!