David Spain writes:

Snidely writes:
Lo, on the 11/20/2020, David Spain did proclaim ...

Radio astronomers make for bad civil engineers appearently. It was just
a few short months ago that we were reading that new cables would be
installed in an attempt to repair the telescope. Now with an additional
cable
break it has become too unstable to safely repair.

They hired three different consulting firms, and had new cables on order. The
last break was clearly at a load well below spec, which means the other cables
can't be trusted.

Please read more carefully.

/dps

Read what? I've seen no cites. Did you post something earlier I may have
missed?

Dave

Aha I did miss it, sorry:

Ha ha.

"But despite a long history of scientific contributions, the observatory has
been struggling for funding for over a decade"

URL:https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/famed-arecibo-observatory-to-be-decommissioned-in-wake-of-cable-breaks/

/dps

David