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The end of the line for the Arecibo radio telescope
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Ian.M:
All for want of a small team of high rope access trained riggers tasked to permanent maintenance, a magnetic wire rope tester and a few barrels of anhydrous lanolin per annum!  |O

The average wage in Puerto Rico is about 20K USD per annum and there's historically in excess of 10% unemployment, so I bet the cables could have been kept greased (against rust) and inspected for appox. 100K USD per annum budget.  If you cant raise >$20 per hour above base access costs from selling access time on one of the largest radio telescope dishes in the world to fund routine maintenance, then your management team is criminally incompetent.  :horse:
coppercone2:
management: what do we need that thing again for? (asks same question every year)
nfmax:
...and it's gone:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses-puerto-rico
MadTux:
Sad  :-[
CatalinaWOW:
That certainly validates the risk assessment.  Too bad they didn't use those same skills when allocating maintenance funds.
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