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Einstein's Alcove
Arecibo Observatory - the end of an era
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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 1100773" data-attributes="member: 369937"><p>The main reflector is a wire mesh suspended by cables, you can walk under it, it free floats off the ground by several meters or so, the cables are attached to a main ring at the top, these cables are what gives it the spherical shape.(it is not a parabolic)</p><p></p><p>And i don't think they would want to use dynamite as the dish is built in an old sinkhole, the rain that falls into the dish (and then down in to the sinkhole) is used as the main water supply for the town of Arecibo, muck around with that and you would have bigger problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 1100773, member: 369937"] The main reflector is a wire mesh suspended by cables, you can walk under it, it free floats off the ground by several meters or so, the cables are attached to a main ring at the top, these cables are what gives it the spherical shape.(it is not a parabolic) And i don't think they would want to use dynamite as the dish is built in an old sinkhole, the rain that falls into the dish (and then down in to the sinkhole) is used as the main water supply for the town of Arecibo, muck around with that and you would have bigger problems. [/QUOTE]
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